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Project Share... // Personal Learning Network //

**What is an Personal Learning Network (PLN)?** A personal learning network is a group of people with whom you can share interests, ideas, and resources. These are experts in their field who have great knowledge in their subject area.

**Why use PLN's in education?** Personal Learning Networks offer a wealth of opportunities and resources for learning, communicating, and collaborating with others. They provide a place for users to communicate with each other and create support groups and networks with others that would not have been possible in another format. Students, parents, teachers, community leaders, educational leaders, and school administrators can establish communication and important relationships with others through an online community which offers resources and support for all who are members.

These online learning communities involve the use of many types of social media tools such as forums, chats, blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, pictures, social bookmarking, and webinars which enable users to communicate, share, teach, learn, collaborate, and create products together.


 * Here are other Personal Learning Networks which are of value to any curriculum area teacher. ||
 * [[image:esc5projectshare/classroom2.0.png width="440" height="289" align="center" caption="Classroom 2.0 Ning" link="@http://www.classroom20.com/"]] || [[image:esc5projectshare/tcea.png width="475" height="287" caption="TCEA Twitter" link="@http://twitter.com/tcea"]] ||
 * [[image:esc5projectshare/den.png width="444" height="333" align="center" caption="Discovery Education DEN" link="@http://community.discoveryeducation.com/"]] || [[image:esc5projectshare/coolcatteacher.png width="485" height="338" caption="Cool Cat Teacher Blog" link="@http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/"]] ||
 * [[image:esc5projectshare/freetech.png width="489" height="308" caption="Free Technology for Teachers" link="@http://www.freetech4teachers.com/"]] || [[image:esc5projectshare/miguel.png width="496" height="299" caption="Miguel Guhlin" link="@http://www.mguhlin.org/"]] ||