5 Easy Ways to Quickly Build Your Personal Learning Network

Last Thursday, we had such a great time with Jeff Bradbury and all of the educators that joined us for our webinar on 5 Easy Ways to Build Your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Thank you again to everyone who participated. We want to be sure that everyone in the OLE Community has the ability to hear about why it’s so important to have a PLN and just how quickly you can grow your own. We’ve included the slides and resources from the webinar below.

Let’s continue to collaborate on ideas for how you can get involved using the shared webinar back-channel Google doc located here.

Join us for our next webinar where we’ll take a look at 5 of the best practices for Creating Authentic Learning Experiences in the classroom. Mark your calendar for Thursday, March 14 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM MDT. You can register here.

Presentation Slides

Presentation Resources

1. Find, Friend, Follow

Social Bookmarking

• Pinterest for Educators? – Tips for how to use Pinterest
• Educator Professional Development – New Pinterest Board on OLE
• 5 New Year’s Resolutions, 5 New Boards to Follow on Pinterest for Education
• Top 10 Pinterest Boards on TEchnology and Education
• Diigo Educator Accounts

Please follow us on Pinterest! OLE Community and Jeffrey Bradbury

RSS Feeds

• How to Use an RSS Reader

Please add us to your RSS Reader! OLE Community and TeacherCast

Twitter

• Educational Twitter Chats
• How to Chat on Twitter
• Educational Tweetdeck
• How to Get Started with Twitter in 5 Easy Steps

Please follow us! @PearsonOLE and @TeacherCast

Facebook

• All about Facebook
• Facebook for Educators Guide (downloadable pdf)
• The 5 Best Practices for Educators on Facebook

Please like us! PearsonOLE and TeacherCast

LinkedIn

• Teachers Lounge
• 8 Great LinkedIn Groups for Educators

Google+

• All about Google+
• Google+ for Educators LiveBinder

Please add us to your circle! PearsonOLE and TeacherCast

2. Personal Branding

• Cybrary Man’s Educational Web Sites
• Top 100 Education Blogs
• You, Your Network & Your Digital Legacy: Personal Branding for Teachers

3. Contribute & Participate

• Chats
• 7 Tips for Commenting on Blogs

Submit your blog posts to be published on OLE Community at ole@pearson.com and blog.teachercast.net

4. Person to Person Networking

• Edcamp
• TeachMeet

5. Collaborate

• Shared Google Doc to Collaborate on How to Grow Your PLN