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A PLN (Personal Learning Network) is a community of learners around the world who connect online. Twitter is a virtual meeting place to house these learners. These learners start out as strangers but after connecting their primary commonality, the love of learning and education, they create a community where they collaborate and maximize their education experience. Creating a PLN takes a little commitment and some socializing (finding friends to join!). You have to set aside a little time, whenever it best fits your schedule, if not your PLN will surely fail. To start your PLN, the first thing you need to do is create a twitter account. Type a bio that states what you truly love and make sure you upload a pic! The next thing you need to do is begin following people. Find people who inspire you or who you can learn something from such as educators or historians. Now just watch and learn. Read tweets, explore blogs, and learn. Give a little something, or a lot of something! It is like a chain reaction, the more you give the more you get. As people check out your tweets and add follow you, the more networking becomes available. You can tag your tweets by using a hashtag (or # sign). This will give it even more exposure. There are also twitter organizers which help you organize your tweets. This separates your tweets into columns. Twitter is a great way to network and it has a lot to offer. You can even get awesome invites to national educational events and places like ISTE.
Q: Is Twitter used more widely as a social networking tool or an educational networking tool?
A: It is both. For all of the pop culture gurus out there, celebrates and their dirty gossip is being spread throughout the twitter nation every second. It is also a great music tool. Great way to follow your artists and get updated tour dates and what not. Twitter has greatly grown into an educational warehouse. There are hundreds of thousands of intelligent minds out there who willingly share their knowledge everyday. Twitter is great.
Q: What is the best way to find a good PLN?
A: A PLN is what you make it. It is your own personal learning network, therefore you have the power to decide who has the most intellectual bullets to shoot you with. I would recommend following some of your favorite professors and authors. Or finding those who discuss a particular subject that intices you and simply click: FOLLOW.
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