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• 11 Oct 09
  

  Mike Fisher

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  • A personal learning network represents a group of people who can:
    

    
    

    
    1: Recommend articles, guides, websites, blog entries, experts, and so on.

  • Guide your learning.
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  • • Answer our questions
    • Push us in new directions.
    • Challenge our currently held beliefs.
    • Prevent us from taking the comfortable, well-walked road again and again.
    • Offer support.
    • A personal learning network requires reciprocation, which means we similarly provide all of the above points too. A PLN isn't unidirectional, as is a workshop or book. And even a novice on the topic can actively participate in the discussion. Although he may not understand the full depth of the conversation, he still has access to articles, sites, lesson plans, and experts that allow him to provide value.
    • So where can we get access to personal learning networks?
    • First, it's easy to share ideas and information with our coworkers, perhaps between classes in the teachers' room. It's easy to ask one another questions or give answers. There are also professional organizations. These often provide newsletters, forums, and conferences that allow us to gather support.
    • Although these traditional PLNs remain valuable, they're also somewhat limited in their breadth
    • Web 2.0 offers the best and quickest ways to expand our personal learning network.
• 13 Sep 09
  

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• 12 Sep 09
  

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• 11 Sep 09
  

  Karen Hurd

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  As educators, we know that learning takes place every day and everywhere. But
  with the need for information and expertise in all sorts of related and
  unrelated fields these days, we just can't learn quickly or deeply enough to
  satisfy personal or professional demands. Consider the following approaches most
  people take:
  
  Workshops and training programs: These may be great, but they end after
  several hours or days. How do we continue to seek guidance or confirm our
  understanding once the workshop or program has ended? In addition, so many in
  the ELT profession live in areas without a large enough community of teachers to
  allow regular workshops and training.
  
  Self-directed and continuous study: Yes, this proves essential to our
  professional development. Yet, at first, we can't apply the ideas gleaned from
  many sources so readily. We need to move this information to flexible knowledge
  that then lets us quickly adapt and apply it to new situations. How do we do
  this?
  
  Observe a lesson in whole or in part (or be observed): We have the chance to
  gain some new ideas. If we see a successful activity that has students actively
  participating, we similarly have the chance to add this to our teaching
  repertoire. If we are observed, it really only becomes a mini-workshop unless
  our peer provides repeated feedback. How well do we know the whys and hows and
  what ifs that allowed for the success of the lesson and/or activity?
  
  Thus is a Personal Learning Network, or PLN, so important.
  
  A personal learning network represents a group of people who can:
  
  1:
  Recommend articles, guides, websites, blog entries,
  experts, and so on. This tops the list because it supports all the following
  points. With a personal learning network, we automatically have access to the
  accumulated references and resources of possibly hundreds of people. For each
  person in our network, the

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  Dianne Krause

  As educators, we know that learning takes place every day and everywhere. But with the need for information and expertise in all sorts of related and unrelated fields these days, we just can't learn quickly or deeply enough to satisfy personal or professional demands. Consider the following approaches most people take:

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  deeply enough to satisfy personal or professional demands. Consider the following approaches most people

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• 10 Sep 09
  

  Donna Baratta

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