Establishing
your own personal learning network (PLN) via technology can both facilitate and
focus your access to knowledge from many sources outside your local school
community. Lisa
Nielsen’s blog “The Innovative Educator” addresses this topic in a
October 12, 2008 post. She suggests five
ways to launch your own PLN: 1. Join a professional social network. 2.
Identify 5 blogs interesting to you and begin reading them. 3. Set
up a Google Reader account and subscribe to the blogs you selected. 4.
Initiate conversation and begin commenting on the blogs you read.
5. Start using Twitter and follow some
well-know EduBloggers.
Nielsen’s complete post can be accessed at the following link: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html
More resources for setting up your PLN are posted on the Jasper City
Schools’ web site under “Counselors’ Resources” from the “Faculty Information”
page. You can also see a few screen
shots of part of my own PLN journey there.
(This is material I introduced in a district
counselors’ meeting recently.) Click on the following link: http://jasper.k12.al.us.schools.bz/content_page2.aspx?cid=198http://jasper.k12.al.us.schools.bz/content_page2.aspx?cid=198
If you’d
like to know more, email me at mlacroix@jasper.k12.al.us
