Develop Your PLN (Personal Learning Network)

Below, you'll find several approaches to PLNs. There's no right or wrong way to get started, so take what you like and leave the rest.

PLN Yourself!

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Excerpt from the wiki by Australian educator, Sue Waters

The aim of Sue's site is to help you gain the skills to build your own personal learning network (PLN)! Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connects with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community. PLNs increase our opportunities to ask questions and receive help compared to our normal daily face-to-face interactions.

Best of a PLN is it's personal! You make all the choices:     
    1. What tools you use!
    2. Who you connect with!
    3. How you want to learn!
    4. When you want to learn!
Continue reading at the wiki site, PLN Yourself

Personal Learning Networks: The Power of the Human Network


What is a Personal Learning Network (PLN)?
Definition One: Personal Learning Networks are:
  • a concept based on Web 2.0 and social software
  • learner-driven, problem-based, or motivated by interested
  • based on the idea that learning will take place in different contexts, and not come from one place or person
Definition Two: Personal Learning Networkss are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to:
  • set their own learning goals
  • manage their learning; managing both content and process
  • communicate with others in the process of learning
  • and thereby achieve learning goals
Simply put: A PLN is a system for lifelong learning.

This information is from a wiki by Judith Epcke (@jepcke) and Scott Meech (@smeech). Continue reading at the wiki.

Judy & Scott's work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.