Connect

=Connect =
 * ==join for the purpose of communication; establish a rapport or relationship; get in touch: establish communication with someone ==
 * **everyone and everything thing is now connectable thanks to the Internet. Now you can connect Twitter with Facebook with Delicious with Email with Google reader. **
 * ====**"There are literally thousands of ways to coordinate and connect groups of people that just didn't exist a generation ago. All of it is worthless if you don't decide to lead. All of it goes to waste if your leadership is compromised, if you settle, if you don't commit." - Seth Godin **====

__Personal Learning Network/Professional Learning Communities __

 * ====PLN is an acronym for Personal Learning Network. The acronym is relatively new, but the idea is not. Teachers have always had learning networks—people we learn from and share with. Teachers are information junkies. We’re also social. Put the two together and you have a personal learning network. ====
 * PLN Voicethread

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Educator PLNs

 * ====[|The Educator's PLN] ====
 * ====Pete and C Ning ====

__Twitter __
Set up a Twitter Account ([])

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**How to Use Twitter **
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**How to Create a Twitter List **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">How to Use Twitter Hashtags **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Using Twitter to Grow Your PLN
====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Professional Development in 140 Characters ====

__<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Blogs __

 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Blog Tools ====
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Blogger]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Edublogs]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Wordpress]
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Good Blogs ====
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Free Tech 4 Teachers Blog]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Teach Paperless Blog]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Weblogg-ed Blog]

__<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RSS Feeds __
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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Reader, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">RSS Aggregator that allows you to have information brought to you from websites and blogs, all to one page. Just set up a Google Account and start adding RSS Feeds to your Google Reader page ====
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">How to Use Google Reader **