Research

Personal Learning Networks
Increasingly becoming a common practice, creating professional learning communities in schools is thriving in some schools and not in others. I want to explore the relation between personal learning networks and professional learning communities.


 * Questions to Explore:**
 * Who are the key players/leaders in creating/maintaining a PLC?
 * What tools are being used to communicate? Collaborate?
 * How are individuals in a community connected?
 * What do their personal learning networks look like?
 * How do individuals use their PLN to enhance a PLC they are involved with?
 * What technology tools are used?

- Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, DuFour, R., et al - Professional Learning Communities at Work, DuFour, R., et al
 * Resources:**

**Blogging**
How do you engage students in blogging?
 * allow them to co-author as a scribe of the day
 * Add images from Flickr
 * embedding video