Braving a PLN

Tonight I find myself pondering the catchphrase (of sorts) of "building a PLN (personal learning network)". While many bloggers I cyber stalk probably see this term as old news, it is something that is very much in my headlights at this moment in my teaching journey.

Image from Quadblogging Aotearoa

I have again danced around the Internet, bouncing from blog, to VLN, to blog and back. Inspired from a weekly blog post of Stephanie ( my first teacher blog subscription) I set off on a short jig. I found myself rejoining quad blogging ( the NZ version this time - thanks Barbara Reid for setting this up). I floated briefly through the VLN's quad blogging page, into links about teaching blogging, and then quality commenting... Round and around pages I twirled, until into my mind again jumped the thought- I need to be braver, I need to build my links, my PLN. I need to honour these great educators who can inspire me more in 30 minutes online, than can be achieved 6hrs of a teachers only day

Our current school theme is "Pay it forward", which makes this an opportune time to think about how am I paying it forward to the teaching community. How can I get my contributions out onto the dance floor, so perhaps one day my wee mutterings can be an inspiration to someone else like me who is out enjoying a dance.

So the next challenge for myself - get this blog out there... Be brave, comment more and attach my link....eek

Please excuse the dancing euphemisms, they somehow wrote themselves into the page. :)