Connecting with ISTE : PLNs

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This week's (really last week's, I've fallen behind - ugh!) ISTE connection is PLNs -- Personal Learning Networks.  PLNs in their simplest form are the folks you bounce ideas off, they are the hallways in education.  This digital age has allowed us to connect with other educators all over the world, in different timezones, and in different ways. 

Tom Whitby in his article How Do I Get a PLN? states that a PLN is a mindset.  I absolutely agree with him.  My PLN is most helpful to me when I am most attentive to it.  (I guess that's true with most anything...)  This also brings me to another point he makes, that lifelong learning takes effort.  It's amazing what resources, information, and wisdom are out there just waiting for me, but I need to take that first step and search, find, and connect.