Teachers' professional development was traditionally limited and sporadic, delivered in isolated instances. However, the rise of Web 2.0 technologies now provides teachers unlimited opportunities to expand how they grow professionally through accessing learning anywhere, anytime from various sources. These opportunities offered by personal learning networks cannot be underestimated and have the potential to transform what teachers and their students can achieve.

1. Using the Power
of
Personal Learning Networks
To
Grow Professionally

2. In the 20th Century,
a teacher’s professional development
was
limited, usually delivered to you
and sporadic.
Case in point…

4. The increasing number
of
Web 2.0 technologies
has provided unlimited opportunities
for teachers
to expand the ways
In which they grow professionally.
See for yourself…

6. The power
of these opportunities
simply
cannot
be underestimated.
Now we have
unlimited access to learning…
whenever…
wherever…
from
whomever.
It’s exponential…

8. Imagine…
Where you can go…
what you can do…
Who you can be…
When the playing ground is leveled.
Imagine…
Where your students can go…
What your students can do…
Who your students can be…
When the playing ground is leveled.

9. Put another way…
You’ll find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSH5TMYlz4