Blog Post #5: Personal Learning Networks

What is a PLN, or Personal Learning Network, and in what ways can it make our lives as teachers easier? A good definition of PLN as stated by Edublogs Teacher Challenges comes in three parts. The three parts are: The Personal, The Learning, and the Network. A PLN is a group of connections and personal relationships to school administrators, teachers, and other experts from around the world. This group is a way for the connections to share ideas and collaborations that help to expand your ways of teaching. Networking is the way that the PLN works to share those ideas to the people within your group and all over the globe with issues, enhancements to teaching and the evolving technologies. I created a Symbaloo which is a great site that combines many different websites that are like your face to people as they search your name. Keeping a good view of what people see about yourself is an important key in keeping your private life separate from your professional teaching career. Having a network is a great way to keep in touch with people you meet through out your career and with Symbaloo it would be easy to keep up with sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google +, ect.

Diagram of a PLN