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Connect, Collaborate, Contribute:

Creating Your Online Professional Learning Network

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…not a day goes by that I don't learn something from my network of Twitter contacts.

Richard Byrnewww.freetech4teachers.com

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• Twitter allows me to share and glean resources I can use in the classroom

• I meet and connect with other educators from around the world whom I would otherwise never be able to meet

• I've become aware of and involved in conversations "beyond my field"

• It gives me 24/7 access to the most creative, influential, and innovative minds the world has to offer, allowing me a virtual whiteboard and brainstorm group

Angela Maiershttp://www.angelamaiers.com/2008/09/my-twitter-enga.html

Here's why I love Twitter:

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The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of "others”, people whom we may not know and may never meet, but who share our passions and interests and are willing to invest in exploring them together.

http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-age-technology-will-richardson#

Will Richardson is the author of the weblogg-ed blog, as well as learner in chief at the Connective Learning Group and the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.

Will Richardson

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