Building Your PLN – PPD003




PodcastPD - Anytime, Anywhere Learning For Educators show

Summary: <h3>FEATURED CONTENT</h3> <p style="text-align: justify;">Your <del>Professional</del> <strong>Personal</strong> Learning Network (PLN) is an invaluable resource to both your career in education as well as your private life outside the walls of your school. In the third episode of PodcastPD, Chris, AJ, and I discuss the people you should include in our PLN and how to go about building a PLN of your own (step 1-include US!).Personally we like to build our PLN with people who are: like minded, share the same interests, share ideas, positive and upbeat, and push our learning and thinking. We connect in a variety of ways- from</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Personally, we like to build our PLN with people who are: like minded, share the same interests, share ideas, positive and upbeat, and push our learning and thinking. We connect in a variety of ways and a variety of platforms, from <a href="https://twitter.com/podcastpd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://voxer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voxer</a> to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/podcastpd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.coffeeedu.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CoffeeEdu</a> (be brave-start your own!).We even discuss less traditional but more fun ways to connect with you PLN, like DinerEdu, EdCampOut, and BoardGameEdu! What would be your entry point for building your PLN? Who would you</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We even discuss less traditional but more fun ways to connect with you PLN, like DinerEdu, EdCampOut, and BoardGameEdu! What would be your entry point for building your PLN? Who would you like to connect with?</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-130 size-large" src="http://podcastpd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/podcastpd-sketchnote-003-1024x732.jpg" width="705" height="504"></p> <h4>LINKS AND RESOURCES</h4> <ul> <li>Our favorite Twitter chats: <ol> <li>#BFC530</li> <li>#SSTLAP</li> <li>#TLAP</li> <li>Find a <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/twittereducationchats/education-chat-calendar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chat</a> that will help you grow your PLN</li> </ol> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://voxer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voxer Walkie Talkie App</a></li> <li><a href="http://overcast.fm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Overcast.fm</a></li> <li>Innovator’s Mindset MOOC</li> </ul> <h3>WHAT WE’RE LEARNING</h3> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>AJ</strong> is currently reading <a href="http://amzn.to/2lh58i3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Blended Learning in Action: A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Change</em></a> by Catlin Tucker, Jason Todd Green and Tiffany Wyckoff.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Chris</strong> recommended a podcast from WNYC (NPR) called <strong><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/notetoself" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Note to Self</em></a></strong>. His wife recently turned him on to this podcast and his jumping off point was a series of episodes called <strong><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/privacy-paradox-tip-sheet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Privacy Paradox</a></strong>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>What is the Privacy Paradox?</em> It’s the term behavioral economists use to describe the disconnect between our feelings about digital privacy (we value it!) and how we act online (we give privacy away!).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Stacey</strong> is back to listening to podcasts (YAY!) afte</p>