Happy Spring!

This week has been an exciting explosion 💥 of learning about PLNs (or Personalized Learning Networks)! There are numerous PLNs to explore to see which you prefer best, in order to find and share information among others socially and professionally!
GoodReads is a free PLN resource, (that I enjoy) containing several education and fun links for book lovers 😍
1. Provides user-friendly areas of social and professional development as you join nationwide (online) discussion book groups, community book club groups, and/or educational book groups to communicate and exchange:

• book topics and genres
• multi-learning and classroom purposes
• instructional ELA ideas
• educational lit. blogging
• writing instruction
• literature trivia quizzes
• ELA lessons and units

2. Personalize your networks according to interests you indicate, such as:

• building your own library
• newly-released books
• recommended books
• book reviews
• author bios and forums
• scheduled local and nation-wide events
• inspirational quotes student-teacher-family
• giveaways

3. TIP: When setting up your account, personalize it to fit your needs by accessing the online literature catalogs develops your digital bookshelves and shared discussions among book groups (to begin joining networks)

• Below, is an example of one of my recent book reviews of Sharon Creech's book, The Boy on the Porch!

4. Here is link a to get started with GoodReads, step by step


Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff), pronounced dee'go, is another popular and excellent PLN resource containing several capabilities for users to easily store bookmarked web content and join social and professional networks.
1. Benefits You Will Enjoy 👍

• research several different educator resources and collaborative networks in one place
• save website content by clicking the blue d on toolbar of your computer screen to bookmark the website's content to your Diigo Library
• no lost information researched from website saved because Diigo archives webpage links saved to be fully searchable
• emphasize or provide descriptions to particular parts of webpage content saved using sticky notes, screens shots, highlighting, and annotations
• tag to label and organize all saved websites' content efficiently for easy access
• you can organize, post, and share PLN resources bookmarked and saved to your Diigo Library with other educators through your Diigo Groups
• able to post comments among other educator groups you join
• privacy for sharing or not sharing by selecting public or private each time you bookmark a website
• share instantly when bookmarking a website by either selecting to email particular people or to your Diigo groups
  
  
  
  

You and Diigo network groups can comment, ask questions, share additional material, and provide feedback using the response tools on Diigo

2. Needing more info to understand Diigo click, About Diigo
3. Serves as a differentiated learning tool in the classroom💡💻

• can be used in the classroom among all age levels
• teacher creates their class roster as a shared group for all students to access

4. Sign up for a free Diigo account, here!
    Click, free Teacher Account if interested in free educator uses and capabilities of Diigo
5. Watch this video clip to learn how Diigo is used for teaching and learning with students

6. Click, Diigo Tutorial to view and learn how to…

• bookmark sites for professional social networking
• join and share groups
• create your class groups for teaching use