" I had no clue what I was doing but decided to give it a try. I was clueless of the incredible opportunities and universe that would unfold in 140 strokes or less right before my eyes."
Learning has always been based on exposure to new stimuli, research and communication. Ideas are formulated through external opinion, reflection and conclusion
For twitter to work you need to follow the right people. As an educator I needed to follow those who contributed to #ukedchat and there I found items of interest (@ICTEvangelist). Not only was it interesting to read the 140 character snippets but also the links that were posted. I was introduced to a range of teaching discussion that stimulated thought. There were blogposts that led to conversations in the staff room and links that could be passed on to colleagues.
Good reference list, divided into categories. "Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it's become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown."
the heart of PLN is the concept of people who connect together to help each other grow and learn.
The technology comes in because it is a tool that can help you to connect to those people and it can help you process the information you get from those people into meaningful and hopefully useful knowledge.
PLN can help. They can point you to the right articles, the best sources of information and guide you along the way, so that you save time and access the highest quality resources
In order to truly develop I believe you need apply some critical thinking to that information, try to apply what you have learned to your own context and most of all feed what you have learned about the information back into the global community from which your PLN was formed.
first of those and probably the most useful is Twitter
Can you see the highlighted part? I did that with a highlighting tool. The tools alone that are available with diigo are very useful. I have installed the toolbar in google chrome. I have also set this note so that only people in the PLN group would see it