You will find that most people are
more than happy to help and are honoured to be asked to share their knowledge and wisdom Building a Personal Learning Network is a two-way street and requires that you not only seek to learn from others, but that you also help others in the network learn. This applies even if you are a novice in a particular field. You will still have a valuable contribution to make to the network. Perhaps you read an article that might be of interest to others. Or perhaps you heard of an interesting upcoming conference. Share this information with others and if you attend, then circulate your notes and any papers you collect to other network members.
A personal learning network can be your most powerful learning tool, no matter what the subject.
Warlick provides 10 tips to help establish your own PLN.
- Start small and limit the number of blogs you subscribe to.
- Organise your subscriptions by topic or job function.
- Organise folders in your
aggregator based on how frequently you need to read them. Call one folder “Every day” and place in it blogs and other RSS feeds that you need to see every day. Call another one “Once a Week” and another one “Once a Month”.
Teachers use ICT to access outside experts and learning communities to support their activities and their own professional learning (KD.6.b).
