Get on social media: Twitter is a very good place to start. Some people find it useful to set up a separate social media presence for their professional identity. As you work through the perspectives in this guide, find ways to connect with the ideas of the people and institutions etc mentioned. As you follow, new ideas, sites, books, MOOCs etc will be discovered. Look at related fields, follow tangents. Connect with others in your subject area. Reflect on who is producing the ideas and why. 

Set up a blog. Even if you never publish it will help you record and reflect on your use of digital technology and its place in your learning environment. Reflect on your professional development, on your teaching and on students’ engagement with their own budding learning rhizomes. Blogging helps to make thinking, and learning visible and more shareable. Here's 9 reasons why.
Set up a glossary. *How many of these terms have you used in your blogging so far? How many have competing definitions?

Use the critical perspectives and debates as ways to reflect on your learning environment. When blogging use these as tags. As you dig deeper you will add and delete these as you develop new perspectives and the technologies change or are revealed. If you haven’t included any of the tags, then you may be missing out on a new way of thinking about something. Tagging will also help you curate and organise your ideas.

Use these tools to plan for and react to changes to your learning environment. Steps 1-5 help you create a 'dashboard' for your learning environment and connect it to the wider learning environments you are a part of. In these rapidly evolving environments, most of the ideas and platforms will evolve, perhaps disappear, but the concept of critical engagement with the technology will not. 

Students will be on the same journey and can benefit from these steps too. 

Model your own engagement and support theirs too.