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Personal Learning Networks – Part I, Subscribing to RSS Feeds
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In Building a Personal Learning Network, you need to find support in your area of interest. Knowing where to start can be daunting, so below are a couple lists to get you started:
Finding Educational Blogs to subscribe to via RSS feeds:
- The Edublog Awards (2009 nominees and 2008 winners from 16 categories)
- Moving Forward’s Education Blogs by Discipline
- Moving Forward’s General Classroom Blogs (organized by level)
- Clearview Education Blog’s 100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future
- Making Teachers Nerdy’s Educational Blogs you Should be Investigating
- Online University Reviews’ 100 Most Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for teachers
- Free Technology for Teachers’ 21 Must Read RSS Feeds
- BLC 25 Ed Tech Leaders to Follow
- Connexions’ Directory of Learning Professionals Online
- Support Blogging’s Links to School Bloggers
(shame its alphabetized instead of sorted by discipline) - Look at the Blogroll (links to other blogs) on your favorite blogs
- In your RSS reader, there are often recommendations. For example, in Google Reader, your Home page will show Top Recommendations in a gray box on the top right
Popular RSS readers and other Tools:
- Google Reader
- Bloglines
- PageFlakes
- Tabbloid
- RSSOwl
- Flock – the social web browser
- Nine Ways to Check RSS Feeds (Including some unusual ones) by Samer Kurdi of freewaregenius
Finding Educator’s to follow via Twitter:
- Twitter for Teachers Wiki
- Connexions’ Directory of Learning Professionals Online
- Free Technology for Teachers’ 10 Teachers to Follow on Twitter
- BLC 25 Ed Tech Leaders to Follow
- Online University Reviews’ Top 1o Teachers to Follow on Twitter
Wikis and Educational Netorks:
- Classroom 2.0
- Classroom 2.0 Wiki
- SMART Board Revolution
- ISTE Ning (International Society for Technology in Education
- Scholastic Teacher Share
- PBS Teachers
- NextGen Teachers
- Support Blogging!
- WebTools4U2Use
- Educational Wikis
Podcasts & Webinar Sources
- TechTalk4Teachers
- EdTechTalk
- Education Week’s Webinars
- Classroom 2.0 LIVE
- iTunes U
- EPN (the Education Podcast Network)
- Elluminate
- Teachers.tv
Finding social bookmarking sources:
- BLC 25 Ed Tech Leaders to Follow
- Educators Using Social Bookmarking Sites by Teaching Hacks
- Look on one of your favorite blogs and see if they have a link to their del.icio.us, Digg or Diigo sites
- Go to a social bookmarking site:
Delicious
PortaPortal
Diigo
Digg
Reddit
and search for your topic of interest
More sources for developing PLNs:
- Creating a PLN by Michelle Bourchois, Colleen Glaude & Kate Morrow
- Web 2.0 in Teaching & Learning by John Larkin of Watershed
- First Steps to Becoming a 21st Century Educator by Kim Cofino of Always Learning
- How to Build a PLN by Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers
- Stages of PLN Adoption by Jeff Utecht of The Thinking Stick
- PLN Yourself by Sue Waters of The Edublogger
- Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators by David Hopkins of eLearning Blog//Don’t Waste Your Time
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