A good friend (and a great teacher) e-mailed me after my last post. “Great links,” she said. “But what’s a PLN?” A good reminder about why I try to avoid acronyms and jargon in my writing. PLN is an acronym for Personal Learning Network. The acronym is relatively new, but the idea is not. Teachers [...]
Posts under ‘Personal Learning Network’
Come join the Electronic Village Online (by Carla Arena)
I’m here to tell you about how a simple acronym – EVO – changed my life and was a true turning point in my professional development. When I joined the Electronic Village Online for the first time to take the online session Becoming a Webhead (BaW), I had the feeling it was special in the [...]
Surrounded by Amazing Teachers
One of the greatest advantages of belonging to online networks is that you have daily access to people who are talented, smart, creative, and (most importantly) generous about sharing those abilities. Events like the Edublog Awards are lovely affirmation of my belief that we really are better when we work together.
May and June posts you may have missed
Toward the end of May, I published a post highlighting guest posts readers might have missed in March, April, and May. I received a number of messages thanking me for the summaries, so I’m going to write another. Since the end of May there have been quite a few posts, mostly by guest authors, so [...]
Teacher Development 2.0 (by Steven Herder)
I’ve always believed in the power of people to be able to come together to create something much bigger than any one of them individually. Here is a story about a bunch of teachers (myself and Barbara included) who are coming together to create something new called The International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi).
Three Great Interview Series
I’m always impressed with the ways teachers exploit the power of social media to share and collaborate. These three series of interviews are great examples of very different but equally wonderful ways of sharing.
Guest posts you may have missed
It has been a rough couple of months. With teaching, writing, and travel, and a few natural and man-made disasters, I’ve done a poor job keeping up this blog, a worse job of reading other people’s blogs, and an embarrassingly dreadful job of commenting on blogs (to let people know that I actually did [...]
Very cool! A chance to discover new blogs
It’s time once again for Lexiophile’s annual Top 100 Language Lovers competition. This year, they’ve changed things around a bit, so they’re ranking language-related Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, as well as language learning and professional blogs.
Fun, in practice
At the end of January, I wrote a post inspired by Volkswagen’s Fun Theory competition. (If you missed the original post, it’s here: The Fun Theory in Language Learning) As often happens, as soon as I had “fun” on the brain, I started seeing posts and information related to this topic all around me in [...]
What I’ve Learned from my PLN (January 3, 2011)
(Note: If this is the first post you’ve read in this series, and you’re mystified by the PLN acronym, start with What’s a PLN, anyway?) It’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these posts. It isn’t that I haven’t learned anything from my personal learning network recently, just that it’s way easier to learn [...]
