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The image says it all. The following resource illustrates the importance of curating information gleaned from the creation of the PLN. Too much information can be hard to sift through and make your work extremely ineffective. What will benefit your students most? focus on that. The other extraneous information is just a bonus to get to in your spare time

Image and Resource:

http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/step-6-using-curation-tools/

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This valuable image depicts the 3 types of PLN. I find that as I read these descriptions however, that PLN is a part of all aspects of our lives. Everyone we interact with in any way, can have an influence on our behaviour and on how we operate and do things. I think it is obviously important to filter out and use things that will bring benefit to you and your profession, but our network has the potential to be influenced by many many factors.

Image from Google Images:

http://home.lps.org/training/files/2012/11/P00192-SLIDES-Building-a-PLN.png

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I chose to use Twitter to create my PLN because as a student teacher, I felt it was the easiest way for me to access the most ideas possible at once. I could then very easily share them with my students who followed me and was able to communicate quickly

Will Richardson gives us 6 important steps for creating a PLN and using twitter is one of them!

1. Pick your Passion

2. Get a Twitter Account

3. Do a blog search

4. Be a lurker... for a while

5. Share good stuff

6. Make it a habbit

Resource:

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/jun13/vol70/num09/Create-Your-PLN@-6-Easy-Steps.aspx

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Tom Whitby identified a potential problem to the creation of a PLN. He states that "The PLN is a mindset, not the outcome of a workshop or the PD offered annually by many school districts". While this may seem as a barrier, I think it is also a characteristic of PLN's that make them extremely valuable and exciting. There is no set structure as to how these networks are to be set up. Whitby also states his belief that the 'P' should stand for Personalized, because we really can make it what we want it to be and need it to be. That to me is extremely exciting.

Resource:

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-do-i-get-a-pln-tom-whitby