Purpose of my PLN:
- Network with computer science educators and teacher librarians who can introduce me to new ideas, share up-to-date research, and help me with specific questions as they come up.
- Share thoughts and read others’ thoughts on chapter guiding questions as I work through Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (2020)
Steps for my PLN:
- Join the SFU CS Educators Slack server
- Curate a list of Twitter accounts that talk about CSEd, Math Ed, and Library Learning Commons, taken from blogs and follow lists of accounts I already follow.
- Go through my Twitter follows and cull some of the folks that I no longer find relevant to my interests.
Frankly, this year has been exhausting professionally and personally. I’m looking to move back to high school, so I don’t know exactly what position I will have in a few months, making it difficult to know if anything I discover now will be relevant by September. I’d like to revisit my goals to be more specific in the summer when I have a better idea of what my position will be, as well as more time and mental energy. I’ve chosen Twitter as a PLN network because I am already using that platform professionally and already follow several accounts relevant to my interests.
Sources
Cook, R. J., Jones-Bromenshenkel, M., Huisinga, S., & Mullins, F. (2017). Online professional learning networks: A viable solution to the professional development dilemma. Journal of Special Education Technology, 32(2), 109-118. doi:10.1177/0162643417696930