The Keynote slides companion to a presentation on building Personal Learning Networks for the ActivCarolinas conference in September, 2011.

1. Your Classroom

7. Where do you get help?

8. Where can you ask questions?

9. Where do you get information?

13. Personal Learning Networks

14. What are PLN’s?

17. Exchanging ideas

18. Answers to questions

19. Gathering opinions

20. Seeking resources

21. Where can you build a PLN?

23. Befriend Professional Colleagues

24. Join Professional Groups and Pages

25. You may have video conversations via Skype

27. Twiter is good for:

28. Sharing links to resources

29. Quick Interactions with Professionals

30. Asking Quick Questions

32. Vendors

33. Use the @ symbol before anyone’s name

34. An example would be @Teacherbytes

35. Use the # symbol when discussing a topic such as
#Activcarolina

36. An example would be #Activcarolinas

39. You can have deeper conversations

40. Google+ is in limited beta now

41. You may place people into different groups or
circles

42. It is easy to have video conversations with
Hangouts

43. People are identifies with a + before their name

44. An example would be +John Woodring

46. Learning Social Networks

49. Both allow teachers to connect

51. So many networks
So little time

54. How can I make a PLN work?

55. Fill out your profile

56. Look at who follows those you follow

57. Be willing to share

58. Open up!

60. For more information please visit
johnwoodring.com/personal-learning-networks

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