Professional learning network are important to educators because:
- we can share best practices and hear each other’s stories to avoid local blindness
- we keep up with change, innovation and technology. We definitely can deploy technology to enhance our networks.
- we have place to reflect on our practice and improve it. Feedback from others will be helpful for reflecion to improve our teaching learning practices
- we can build shared understanding of certain topic that is being discussed within the network
- Blog: the most ideal platform to share best practices not only for your inner circle but also to wider audience (unless if you set it up to be private)
- Twitter: create a special hashtag for your community conversation which will empower communication.
- Facebook: great to keep in touch since everyone have it. Create a facebook group for social bookmarking and sharing resources for your network.
- Google+: follow famous people, join a community, keep update with popular topic using the power of Google apps including hangouts, youtube, blogger and google drive.
- Flickr/ Instagram/ Pinterest: great visual gallery for your network consumption.
- LinkedIn – professional learning network platform which provide more formal look and context.