Blog Post #6

A personal learning network is a group of people, places, or organizations that you can go to when you have questions, need clarification, need inspiration or ideas. Your personal learning network helps you along your educational or teaching journey. The awesome thing about having a personal learning network is that it is not limited to a certain country; you can go as global as you want. Also, a personal learning network lets you connect with people that have similar interest that you have, people that are in the same profession as you are, or who have had similar experience as you. Having a personal learning network can help you as a teacher in so many different ways. As teachers, we are going face problems that we are going to need opinions on, ideas, or solutions to and having a personal learning network gives us the opportunity to reach out and learn from others. Also, having a personal learning network can help you get creative with teaching. You can get ideas from the people, places, or organization in your personal learning network to come up with a great lesson or project. Having a personal learning network would be great for teaching project base learning. Personal learning networks are formed through twitter, blogging, facebook, delicious and many more websites. Through these websites you can follow conversation or subjects that interest you. You can watch who people are conversing with and you also can formulate questions, have people comment answers to the questions, and you can decided if the people that comment on your question is someone you would want in your personal learning network. I will also be using these websites to help create my personal learning network.

My Personal Learning Network

I am using the website Symbaloo to create my personal learning network. The first edition to my personal network is Top Master in Education website. I chose this website because I am majoring in elementary education and it includes the top twenty-five blogs from elementary teachers. The teachers discuss many ideas on how to make learning fun for elementary students. They also communicate lessons idea, classroom management ideas and other helpful tips. Also, I can use some of the teachers in my personal learning network.

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