In-time,+on-going,+self-directed+Professional+Development-+Cultivating+your+Personal+Learning+Network

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 * [[image:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2813582801_20a383ec06.jpg?v=0 width="300" height="208" align="right" caption="My Second Life Avatar Surawang Dapto, participating in a virtual panel discussion"]]We teach in a time of rapid change, when, for the first time in history, we can not clearly describe the future for which we are preparing our children. This is why "learning" has become a critical part of what it is to teach. This engaging presentation will describe and demonstrate a number of emerging technologies that are increasingly being used by educators to form and cultivate their Personal Learning Networks — connecting themselves to people and resources that help them do their jobs. Learn how to grow your own connections to information and experiences that can help you an expert in your field and an engaged member of your profession. Learn how educators are using blogs, engaging in social chatting, attending virtual professional development events, and harnessing the magic of RSS to train valuable information to find them — to be a 21st Century Education. ||

=Web Resources= There is nothing new about personal learning networks. They are the people and information sources that help you accomplish your goals, either on the job or in your personal pursuits. They are the teachers who work in your school, your instructional supervisor, your library media specialist, the art teacher at the high school, which whom you are friends, the magazines you subscribe to, books you brought home from college, etc.
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 * Published PLN Article: [[file:Growing your Personal Learning Network.pdf]] //(Limited Copying -- one per workshop participant)// || ===Nothing New Here===

Today, however, new techniques for organizing digital networked information, have enabled us to fashion new kinds of networks that extend far beyond our immediate location and face-to-face connections, and to grow our networks based not on explicit decisions, but through the ideas of other nodes (people and resources), whose ideas intersect with ours. ||

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