Personal/Professional Learning Network slideshow from a session held at the College of North Atlantic.

1. Personal/Professional Learning Networks
Your
PLN
Contacts
Resources
Social Media
Groups
John Allan

2. Session Sequence
• What is a PLN?
• PLN steps
• PLN sources
• Organize your PLN
• Keeping it fresh

3. What is a PLN?
• Informal process
• Personal
• Choose resources
• Choose what to learn
• Choose the time
• Collaboration (Local, Global)

4. Steps towards a PLN
• Dynamic process Set goals
Locate
Resources
Organize
Activity
Refine

5. Setting Goals
• Why do you want your PLN?
• Time?
• Style?
• Existing elements?

6. PLN Sources
• Archived, Live Events
• Conferences
• Libraries
• Peers

7. PLN Sources continued…
• Professional Communities
• Social Networks
• Support pages
• Pushed resources (RSS, Alerts)

8. Organize your PLN
• Social media
• Curated Sources
• Visual bookmark
• Online Communities

9. Keep it fresh
• Visit frequently
• Modify elements
• Refine tags (if possible)

10. Be Active
• Comment
• Create
• Curate
• Post
• Rate
• Read
• Tweet

11. Thank you
• Questions?
• Survey
?