Building Your PLN in a Few Easy Steps

Stephen C. Veliz

Florida Educational Technology Conference 2012

Tallahassee, FL

http://todaysmeet.com/fetcPLN

Great Back Channel Tool

Put absent students back in your class

What is a PLN?

Personal Learning Network

Professional Learning Network

Passionate Learning Network

The Power of the PLN

The Power of the PLN

My PLN helps me be a better educator and prepare my students daily. They feed me experience, knowledge, and support 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.

Shelly Sanchez Terrell@ShellTerrell

Who do you share with?

Connect

What’s it all about?

• Follow and Be Followed

• The power of #hashtags

• Give and Take

• Watch it Grow

• Reap the Benefits

Your weekly meeting with the World

• #edchat• edchat.pbworks.com• Tuesdays at 12 and 7 est

• Subject-Area Chats– #sschat Mondays 7pm– Cybrary Man

Managing a Twitter Stream

Network

Share

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Read and Write

A good place to start . . .

• Richard Byrnefreetech4teachers.com

• Shelly Terrellteacherbootcamp.edublogs.org

• Steven Andersonblog.web20classroom.org

• Wesley Fryerspeedofcreativity.org

• Learning with ‘e’ssteve-wheeler.blogspot.com

• Vicki Davis coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

What now?

Need additional help?

Just contact me:

stephenveliz@gmail.com

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Blogging @ www.StephenVeliz.com

Twitter - @stephenveliz