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=Building a Personal Learning Network =

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Welcome and Introductions
-What's a PLN?

Typical Teacher Network

**Starting a PLN & What My PLN Means to Me**
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PLNs & 21st Century Skills
//How can your PLN help with development of 21st Century Skills? (Yours and your students) // 21st Century Skills Resources for Academy District 20

Twitter You Tube Teacher Tube Diigo Edutopia Classroom 2.0 Linked In
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 * Exercise:**
 * Each group will search for "21st Century Learning" or "21st Century Skills" in one of
 * the following PLN sites/tools to look for a great idea or resource.
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 * * @Group 1 - Twitter
 * @Group 2 - You Tube & Teacher Tube
 * @Group 3 - Edutopia
 * @Group 4 - Linked In
 * @Group 5 - Diigo
 * @Group 6 - Laura || Share resources with whole class. What did you find out about the tool? How did you successfully search for information? The information there? ||

How I Built my PLN - Twitter
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My Twitter Wiki

Navigating in Twitter - TweetDeck

 * Following - how to follow
 * Followers
 * RT
 * DM
 * hashtags
 * lists
 * Tweetdeck column features
 * Tweetdeck column features

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**Assignment**: Everyone search resources shared here today to find at least 10 things to Tweet about. Tweet the following 10 tweets with the hashtag **#20inthe21st**:


 * 3 Retweets
 * 3 Resources with >>personal note or description
 * 3 Messages to someone else in this room using @
 * 1 "Philosophy of Education" tweet

Who to Follow - How to Follow - Follow! (Now that you have some tweets posted!)

 * From Mentions
 * From Lists
 * From hashtags
 * From Edchats
 * Who to follow - Foller

Time to Explore - Closing
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