Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)
"To put it simply, human patterns for interacting with ideas are changing dramatically. Making sure that your students end up on the right side of this new digital divide starts with intentional efforts to introduce the kinds of tools, strategies, and behaviors that make information management, fluency, and evaluation easy."
Teaching the iGeneration: Five Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Gtools
by William Ferrite, Garry Adam
The Innovative Educator: Developing Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Great article from the Queen of Twitter in Education for a step-by-step guide for how to develop a PLN.
Google Reader
A great place to start being more efficient on the web is to flip the way you do search. Instead of going to your favorite websites, let them come to you in one spot with an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed reader like Google Reader. Once you've signed up, you can add sites directly on the reader by entering a search term or the sites web address or better yet, you can just click on that funky button to the left and every time a new post or article is added to the site, it will be added to your home page.
Click this link for an overview. http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/08/5-cs-to-developing-your-personal.html
Classroom20.com
Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues.
Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog. Because of spammers, we have to approve all memberships here. While your membership is pending you are still welcome to peruse the site or attend any events!
Once your membership is approved, you can introduce yourself to the whole network by going to the introductory forum message. Please also feel free to explore! Here are some starting tips and a "Tour of Classroom 2.0" Elluminate recording, or you can ask help of a "host." Thanks so much for being here!
Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog. Because of spammers, we have to approve all memberships here. While your membership is pending you are still welcome to peruse the site or attend any events!
Once your membership is approved, you can introduce yourself to the whole network by going to the introductory forum message. Please also feel free to explore! Here are some starting tips and a "Tour of Classroom 2.0" Elluminate recording, or you can ask help of a "host." Thanks so much for being here!
The Educators PLN
http://edupln.ning.com The Educators' PLN or Personal Learning Network is a great way to meet new teachers who share common interests, discuss topics of interest, find new resources and engage in collaborative learning with teachers around the world.
Diigo.com
www.diigo.com
This is an amazing resource that allows you to follow people that are the experts in teaching, in your content area and/or in just about any field imaginable.