Developing Your Professional Learning Network
Using Diigo
When i started using Diigo, I was only focused on the bookmarking tool. Being a non-technical person, it took me a long time to learn how Diigo worked. When I met with +Katia Hildebrandt 2 weeks ago, she asked me how I was developing my PLN? I didn't really have an answer because I had been so focused on learning how to use Twitter, Blogging, Diigo and the regular weekly guest speaker/topic. When I came home that evening I started looking more deeply into what type of learning network I could join and what this would look like?
Developing my PLN has started with Diigo. Diigo has a "Groups" section and I searched "Special Education". It came up with 1032 different groups! I spent a lot of time looking for good groups to join. This was challenging but I narrowed it down to: the membership (how many people involved) and the various topics within. Almost all of the groups were open to the public but I did have to register with 2 groups to join. I was quite fascinated with the concept of joining all of these various groups and to see how people share resources today! This is something I had no idea existed. This type of learning and sharing is new to me but so very exciting! I can't wait to join more groups but for now, I've just joined 4 or 5.
Within each Group, I have taken advantage of reading and sometimes tweeting out various articles that I come across and save some to my library. I've also posted a couple of articles to each website of articles that I thought pertained but at this point I have a short list of resources to share so I have been mostly reading and bookmarking other educator resources.
To learn more about Sharing - Building a Personal Learning Network here's a short, 2 minute video.
