David Warlick stressed an important point that in the 21st century, teachers need to be Master Learners. We must rethink and reinvent what it means to be educators in the 21st century. Warlick recomends building a Personal Learning Network so that we continue to be both educators and students. His PLN accesses a variety of educational blogs, twitter, and social media sites. Access the URL below for online handouts to help you build your own PLN and further your own development as a learner.
Rss feeds are particularly important in building a PLN, because you can search many sites and blogs from just one place. This could be done through an igoogle page were one can create pages by subject to funnel in all of the relevant blogs and sites. Instead of going out to find the information, use rss feeds to bring the information to you.
Some helpful sites for a PLN:
Technorati: to search blogs and posts by subjects
Blekko: search blogs by subject
Topsy: for searching tweets
Delicious: for finding tagged/bookmarked websites for a specific subject
Flicker: can search by subject to find recent uploaded photos and popular tags
David's blog to help you build your PLN (with video tutorials)
http://davidwarlick.com/colearners/#!/page/1
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