Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connections with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community
PLNs increase our opportunities to ask questions and receive help compared to our normal daily face-to-face interactions
It’s really important that we use these tools first for our own personal learning so that we can understand how to use them with our students.
Mark van Harmelen, "Personal Learning Environments," icalt, pp.815-816, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06), 2006
This presentation addresses some of the characteristics of PLEs and the pedagogical perspectives that support them. It also shows examples of various online tools that are used as part of PLEs.