What is a PLN?
Do you have a PLN? Who is in your PLN?
How do you connect with others?
Who do you want to connect with and what do you want to learn?
How will you make new connections?
What are ways to connect with other educators?
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The Teacher's Guide to Twitter - article from Edudemic
Includes tips, hashtags, 100 ways to use Twitter and more
Jerry Baumgarten . Twitter Hashtags List from Cybraryman
Calendar of Twitter chats Google Calendar
100+ Educational Hashtags to follow Getting Smart
125 Educational Twitter accounts to follow Getting Smart
Voxer . See list of Educational Voxer Groups
Please take the Session Survey: Connecting
What is a PLN?
What does it mean to be a "Connected Educator?"
5 Reasons for Being Connected
Resources for Building PLN and Connecting
Let's get connected! Twitter and Flipgrid! Connect with me @rdene915
Flipgrid - Discuss and Connect and Join #vedchat do a #singasong
Presentation: Why connect
Please contact me with any questions, happy to share resource and ideas for becoming more connected, leveraging social media and conferences to build PLN and grow your network!
A post that I had recently written for Getting Smart about becoming a more connected educator, May 29, 2017
A post written by Getting Smart and posted on Monday, July 10th on 125+ Twitter accounts to follow. I am somehow on their list :)
10 resources for becoming more connected by Getting Smart Connected
100 + Hashtags to follow on Twitter via Getting Smart , July 19, 2017 .
1) Start slow - follow a new blog post, participate in 1 Twitter chat, join 1 group
2) Set aside an amount of time/specific day and time of day to connect
3) Look for opportunities to meet other educators, connect virtually
4) Introduce your PLN to new people and continue to build (PLN --> PLC --> PLF, thank you Sarah Thomas)
5) Go back to number 1 and continue to grow your network
Become a member of PAECT!So many opportunities to connect and learn.
ISTE PLN Communities: The opportunity to connect and build PLN/PLF.
At ISTE 2017: Opportunity to present at the ISTE Teacher Education Network Playground with two friends on "The Real Stories of Growing Your PLN: The “Why” Behind Social Media"
ISTE TEN Resource by David Warlick "Grow Your Personal Learning Network"
Facebook Communities
Google +
Organizations
"What connected educators do differently" by Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul and Jimmy Casas
Connected Educator's Month is October - sign up for events and newsletters
Blog by Jimmy Casas