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 * Building Your Professional Learning Network (September 27)**

Professional development should occur globally. There is a teacher in Australia that has wonderful educational tools or ideas to share with you. We need to learn from educators everywhere that share our interests. This is what building a Professional Learning Network is all about. It is about becoming a Lifelong learner, following blogs, tweeting with teachers with different ideas, building a network that will advance us educationally and professionally. See how to get started and whom to follow.

//**A Very Brief Agenda**// 1. Introduction
 * Your AIC's for this evening
 * How you can get in touch with us (via the AIC Website)
 * Help Request
 * The focus of this session and all sessions: It's not about the tech, it's about learning powered by tech

2. Who Do You Learn From?

3. Small Networks Activity
 * Explain how you can incorporate your subject matter into a lesson in another subject (i.e. incorporate math into a science lesson)

4. Define the PLN
 * What is a PLN?
 * Purpose
 * The People of a PLN - take a minute to read
 * Twitter in 60 Seconds

5. Estabilishing your PLN
 * The Blogosphere
 * Twitter
 * Social Bookmarking

6. Teacher Resources
 * [|How to Build a PLN as an Educator]
 * [|Build a 1.0 and 2.0 Learning Network]
 * [|How Building a PLN Can Help Your Students]
 * [|The Educator's PLN] (Online Community)
 * [|Differentiating Development with a PLN]

7. Closing
 * Contacting an AIC
 * Session Feedback