Getting+Started-+Creating+Your+PLN

Step 1: Decide why you are building a network.
 * Professional reasons
 * Personal reasons
 * Mixture of professional/personal reasons

Step 2: What tools in this list are you familiar with?
 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * Diigo
 * Delicious
 * Nings
 * Wikis
 * Plurk
 * Second Life
 * Forums/Discussion Boards
 * Skype
 * Instant Message
 * blogs

Step 3: Decide what kind of username you want to have.
 * your own recognizable name
 * nickname
 * Totally unrelated name so you stay relatively invisible online

Step 4: Create a Twitter account
 * Decide between a protected and open profile
 * Be sure to fill in your profile and include that you are an educator so those who have locked followers will approve your request to follow them.
 * Please see the Twitter page for more info on setting up your account and learning how to tweet

Step 5: Choose people to follow that are going to increase your knowledge. Some suggestions of ed tech people are:

Teach42 - Steve Dembo Discovery Education elemenous - Lucy Gray: Very active technology advocate who always shares great resources dgrice - Dennis Grice California DEN LC irasocol - Authof of the blog "SpeEd Change" mrlosik - Andy Losik Roswellsgirl - Marth Thornburgh technologyined - CitEd coolcatteacher - Vikki Davis of Flat Classroom project Shareski - Dean Shareski jenwagner - Jennifer Wagner kevinhoneycutt - Kevin Honeycutt (ESSDACK) atttipscast - Assistive Technology Tips Podcast stevehargadon - Steve Hargadon (Classroom 2.0)  smeech - Scott Meech (iear.org) lesliefisher - Leslie Fisher

Step 6: Once you choose some people to follow, look at their followers list and choose more to follow. You can always unfollow someone if you decide they are not adding to your PLN.