1. Building Your PLN in a
Few Easy Steps
Stephen C. Veliz
Florida Educational Technology
Conference 2012
Tallahassee, FL

2.  http://todaysmeet.com/fetcPLN
 Great Back Channel Tool
 Put absent students back in your class

3. What is a PLN?
Personal Learning Network
Professional Learning Network
Passionate Learning Network

4. The Power of the PLN

5. The Power of the PLN
My PLN helps me be a better educator and prepare my
students daily. They feed me experience, knowledge, and
support 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
Shelly Sanchez Terrell
@ShellTerrell

6. Who do you share with?

7. Connect

8. What’s it all about?

9. • Follow and Be Followed
• The power of #hashtags
• Give and Take
• Watch it Grow
• Reap the Benefits

10. Your weekly meeting with the World
• #edchat
• edchat.pbworks.com
• Tuesdays at 12 and 7 est
• Subject-Area Chats
– #sschat Mondays 7pm
– Cybrary Man

11. Managing a Twitter Stream

12. Network

13. Share
Social Bookmarking in Plain English

14. Read and Write

15. A good place to start . . .
• Richard Byrne • Wesley Fryer
freetech4teachers.com speedofcreativity.org
• Shelly Terrell • Learning with ‘e’s
teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
• Steven Anderson • Vicki Davis
blog.web20classroom.org coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

16. What now?

17. Need additional help?
Just contact me:
stephenveliz@gmail.com
Presentation Resources
http://tinyurl.com/velizpresent
Blogging @ www.StephenVeliz.com
Twitter - @stephenveliz