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Getting Started
Ahhh, those pesky PLN's!
 * Who uses PLN?
 * What are PLN's good for?
 * Where can you find PLN's?
 * How do people expand theri PLN's?

What about you?

 * Who is in your PLN?
 * What do you use your PLN for?
 * Where is your PLN located?
 * How can you or do you want to expand your PLN?

Today's Challenge Questions

 * How do you grow your PLN?
 * How do you monitor it?
 * How do you know when to turn it off?

We're going to take a poll using our cell phones and a site called Celly http://cel.ly
The question will be: Which sites do you use for your PLN? (This is also an example of how you can use cells in your class if you aren't already.)
 * **Add contact 23559**
 * **then send message to @myplns to join this poll. I will confirm.**
 * **(To take a poll be sure to type in "poll" and send to your cell to open a poll.)**
 * 1) [|Twitter]
 * 2) [|Facebook]
 * 3) [|ASCD]
 * 4) [|TeachersFirst OK2Ask]
 * 5) [|K12Online]
 * 6) [|RSS]
 * 7) [|Diigo]
 * 8) [|iTunes U]
 * 9) [|MIT free online courses]
 * 10) [|Verizon Thinkfinity]
 * 11) [|Google for Educators]
 * 12) [|Google Scholar]
 * 13) [|Intel for Education]
 * 14) [|ISTE Webinars]
 * 15) [|eMInts]
 * 16) [|Connected Learning Exchange]
 * 17) [|Partnership for 21st Century Learning]
 * 18) [|Learn it in 5]
 * 19) [|LinkedIn]
 * 20) [|Alison.com]
 * 21) [|ning.com]
 * 22) Other college online course
 * 23) None
 * 24) Some/All
 * 25) Add more that aren't here!

A Little Background: Stages of PLN adoption
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The Networked Student--And Teacher
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Let's go with Stage 1- Immersion
>>> ==== Tags are keywords or terms that describe a piece of information on the web and ==== >>> ==== [|hashtags are Twitter-specific tags]. ====
 * ===Twitter===
 * ==== **[|Twitter.com/search]** ====
 * ====#edchat--(hashtags define searches)====
 * ====Yes, but what are tags / hashtags? ====
 * ====search for a topic of your choice====
 * ====join if you haven't already====
 * ====Tweet or "retweet" a PLN source you found interesting====
 * ===Diigo-Social Bookmarking site===
 * ====diigo.com====
 * ====search: PLN====
 * ====search for a topic of your choice====
 * ====join if you haven't already====
 * ====be sure to sign up for an educator's account====
 * ====Join a group you found and post a bookmark to that group====

Is it time for tutorials on either group or have you figured them out?
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 * Diigo
 * https://sites.google.com/site/team8project9440/using-diigo-in-the-classroom-2
 * Twitter
 * http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/06/21/pln-challenge-3-using-twitter-to-build-your-pln/

**Find one more from the above list or your own interest and spend time searching.**
**Or try these fun but education sites you and your students can use to create a 21st Century learning PLN in your class:**
 * [|Jing]
 * [|Prezi]
 * [|VoiceThread]
 * [|Engrade]
 * [|Storybird]
 * [|Wordle]
 * [|Tagxedo]
 * [|Pinterest]