PLN

media type="custom" key="12315046" align="right" PLNs are very important to maintaining the standards of an educator because they challenge an educator to remain on the cutting edge of information. The educator has the opportunity to take in information from a variety of sources all around the world in several different communities of the intellectual sphere.

Three things I learned while developing a PLN was:
 * 1) A PLN requires a two way interaction, participation in the network is just as important to learning as taking in information.
 * 2) Twitter can actually be used with a purpose, being to connect with ideas and to learn.
 * 3) Wikis provide a community to interact and keep a group connected at any time.

I have also learned how to greater use my Google account to further my education. There are many tools that I was not aware existed and are very helpful. Wikispaces is also starting to be easier to use, adding different widgets is still sometimes difficult but overall becoming easier to figure out by playing around.