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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). Social bookmarking tools (i.e., What is a PLN?

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). Social bookmarking tools (i.e., What is a PLN?

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

Interesting discussion in the chat about whether if you don’t pay for services if you can trust it. I asked if that included open source tools too–basically he trusts libre tools but not gratis ones. Social bookmarks are an easy first step–lots of people can have a purpose for this. External processes.