PLN

Developing a personal learning network so far has been great. I think it is a great way for teachers and future teachers, or anyone really who is looking to expand their network and start networking with other people. Developing your own blog, web-page, a cite where you store your favorite or bookmarked cites. They are all great ways to keep your connections and networks all in one place that is easy to find and work with as well as letting others see what you have. I think there are many potentials to having a PLN which mostly include the networking and new ways of discovering things that can help you with whatever you are working on. Having a PLN also gives you access to cites and information that you can store together and allow others to see who may not know what those cites are, or even what a PLN is so this way it just forms new people and new networking. I also think it is beneficial for classrooms because if a teacher has their own PLN than students and parents within the classroom can look at the web-page, or whatever the PLN contains and find out information about who will be teaching their children and a little bit about them in a positive light. There are a few limitations in developing a PLN, simply because there is just so much information out there, it is hard to condense it all into an easy to read and find PLN. This means that the person who belongs to the PLN needs to keep there cites clean and organized, also to update them regularly. If the cites or PLN network is not kept up at least a few times a week, or what not, it really is not worth it to keep. These things need to be updated to keep it alive and running, or a network is not a network with no effort put into it. PLN's are great and although there are some drawbacks, as always having to keep them updated and having others look/find them they are great ways to network and put yourself out there!