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**Goal **: Educators will cultivate a new sense of Personal Learning Networks through the use of Web 2.0 tools. They will develop additional skills through a global learning community with a focus on improving teaching and learning.


 * Rationale **: In traditional Personal Learning Networks (PLN), educators generally have been limited to those colleagues in close, physical proximity or available via phone or email. PLNs of the 21st Century utilize Web 2.0 tools and create a global network of opportunities for educators to grow professionally. Educators are enabled to participate in global discussions about best practices in education.


 * Objectives :**
 * Attendees will compare a traditional personal learning network (PLN) to a Web 2.0 PLN.
 * Attendees will be introduced to proven tools to create an effective PLN.
 * Attendees will model practices of a properly utilized web 2.0 PLN.
 * Attendees will evaluate web 2.0 tools to use for their own PLNs.
 * Attendees will examine the traits of a PLN and determine benefits for educators and students.


 * Resources :**

From the [|2009 Horizon] report [|Weblogg-ed]**): Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines.

Steve Hargadon - Blog Post: [|Some Things I've Learned About Building Effective Social Networks]

Jennifer Horowitz - [|The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media] - really good outline of how to use social media to benefit YOU.