Professional Learning Network. A term I never thought about until today when Barbara DeSantis (a DEN STAR educator) offered to send me her weekly e-letter that covers the highlights of her blog. Contact her, by the way, to find out more. It is a really cool service.
Anyway, it hit me how much I rely on my virtual PLN. The library position is unique. The job is a little of this, a little of that, and only other librarians understand some of the weird questions you ask. It gets awful lonely in the media center, and, sometimes, noone hears you scream.
I have, of course, been using PLNs for years, but I never put my list together until now…
SCASL Ning (South Carolina Association of School Librarians)
LMNet (Library Media listserv)
email my colleagues in the district
Plurk
maybe Facebook as I find more and more friends
and my newest one – DEN
How do you connect?