Presentation of Power Up Your PLN (Personal Learning Network) from METC 2014.

2. librariantiffpresents.wikispaces.com

3. Personal
Learning
Network

4. Poll the Audience:
!
Do you consider yourself to be a
connected educator?

5. My Story

6. Something was missing...

7. The evolution of my PLN:

8. When it clicked!
June 27, 2010

9. The Basic Stages
Illustration credit to Alec Couros

10. Lurker Stage
Wow!
There’s so much
info available out
there…I’m just going
to read as much
as I can!!

11. Follow Library Blogs
th e dar i n g
librarian.
com

12. Follow Book Blogs
ReaderPants.net

13. Follow Tech Blogs
freetech
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teachers
.
com

14. How do you keep up
with all of these blogs?

15. RSS Aggregator
feedly.com

16. add new blogs
tag and save posts
view all
or by category

17. What does Twitter have
to do with my PLN?

19. Twitter #hashtags
!
#METC14
#tlchat
#edchat
#titletalk
#yalit
#kidlit
#iste14
#ala14

20. Awesome Twitter Tutorial Comics

21. Super Awesome PLN Starter Kit

22. Making Connections
Hmm…I can
actually talk to the
people sharing all of this
awesome stuff! I should
probably say thanks
for the ideas!

23. Show your appreciation...
leave comments!

24. Make connections...
it opens doors to collaboration!

25. Webinars: TL Virtual Cafe

26. Realize you are not alone!

27. Adapt & Share
This is an idea I
can really use!
And I know just the
teacher that would love
this app…

28. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Just take ideas and make them your own!

29. Adapt ideas that have worked for others.

30. Adapt ideas that have worked for others.

31. Adapt ideas that have worked for others.

32. Adapt ideas that have worked for others.

33. Adapt ideas that have worked for others.

34. Dive In!
I think it’s
about time I start
sharing some of my
ideas too!

35. Use Curation Tools to Gather & Share Resources

36. Become Active on Twitter

37. Blogging:
The Ultimate Reflective Practice!

38. Provide Professional Development in Your School

39. Participate in Professional Organizations
& Present at Conferences

40. Tiffany Whitehead
School Librarian
Central Middle School
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
!
librariantiff@gmail.com
www.mightylittlelibrarian.com
@librarian_tiff on Twitter