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5 Ways to Build Your 1.0 and 2.0 Personal Learning Network

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/08/5-ways-to-build-your-10-and-20-personal.html

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5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html

The PLN Matures. The Progression of the 21st Century Personal Learning Network

I’ve noticed an exciting new trend lately with personal learning networks (PLNs). To date the progression of the PLN has gone something like this. 1) Joining People organically develop their PLNs when chosing to participate in social media like Twitter, Facebook , blogs, and through learning networks like Classroom 2.0. 2) Lurking Once a member of an online community, people generally watch to get a feel for how things work and consume information. 3) Conversing Next people move to joining conversation by retweeting, replying to discussion, commenting on blogs, connecting face-to-face building on ongoing conversations, etc. 4) Initiating/Creating Sometimes people move to initiating the conversation by tweeting, starting discussions, launching blogs or learning networks, starting conferences (i.e.

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/08/pln-matures-progression-of-21st-century.html