Pre-Assignment 2: Personal Learning Network

As a result of my Personal Learning Network infancy, I have yet to truly discover how to make this process easier and I am in no position to be offering advice or tips on how to create a PLN.  What I have learned for certain is that there is much left to learn. Where do I want my learning to occur? Through blogs?  Twitter?  Personal collaboration?  Facebook page?  These questions will answer themselves as I proceed with this new professional process.  Who do I want to learn from?  Veterans in the field or newbies?  Teachers from my geographic location? My grade level?  My interests?  Will I make this a daily habit?  A weekly event?  Although my learning process was only just initiated, I can begin to anticipate some of the lessons I will learn.

Generally, I hope to learn how to find valuable and relevant information to share with my own PLN.  This will require me to do some serious Internet exploration.  Specifically, I hope to learn effective teaching strategies for teaching reading within primary years to give me some fresh and effective ideas.

Connecting with and creating a PLN will help me to be a more aware and relevant teacher through the use of a 21^st-century skill: technology.  Global connections can be made with colleagues from near and far and illustrates teaching by example; if we want our students to be global learners, we need to be as well.  Connecting the two challenges together is simple – once you know what you want to know, you can search for a PLN that satisfies your professional needs.