I have been building my PLN through face to face
meetings until now. I met people at schools, companies, or conferences. Based
on these personal connections, I started being connected online to some of
them. However, now with Web 2.0 technologies, we can build a connection online
first then meet face to face later. But, can I do that? How can I do that?
Where can I start from? I found there were many online forums where educators,
educational technologists, and instructional designers were interacting with
each other. We can also find many educational technology related posts at
Twitter using some hashtags such as #edtech. I have been only lurking some online
forums or hashtagged posts but have not contributed to those online communities
yet. My plan is…First, find more useful online communities and hashtags,
Second, try to contribute to those communities whenever I can, and lastly, find
some key players in the communities and try to connect with them through their
Twitter accounts or blogs.
