Plank+4

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As the ePlanks 'builders' Anne and I have built strong Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) through various means:

[|Delicious] and [|Diigo] = Social bookmarking (all staff have now got a delicious account)

[|Classroom 2.0] one of the largest classrooms in the world, sharing about web2.0 and its use. [|Twitter] - microblogging site

NING NETWORKS:

[|Classroom 2.0] [|Passionate Teachers] [|ning in education] [|Projects by Jen Wagner] - some great global projects for mainly primary school teachers [|Global education collaborativeprojects] [|Online projects 4 teachers] Hors Les Murs - [|Beyond the Walls] Wiki of social networks in education

[|OzTeachers List] [|Edna]
 * Networks for Australian Teachers**

Digital Languages Group on Classroom 2.0 Talkabout Primay MFL In my Reader today I found a post from The Global Education Collaborative about a new Ning network called [|Language Exchange]. The EFL Classroom technoLOTE email discussion group
 * Networks for Language Teachers**

[|Classroom 2.0] [|Twitter] [|Plurk] [|Edublogger World]The Global Education Collaborative
 * Global Networks for All Teachers**

How will this improve my teaching?

I can really only answer this by writing about how social networks have improved my teaching Too Busy to Network?
 * ideas
 * projects
 * support
 * motivation

//The more you put in to a network, the more you will get out of it.

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