Ninging in the New Year

Happy New Year! I'm so excited about one of my New Year's resolutions. I am planning on building my PLN this year (not my initials, but my Personal Learning Network), so I spent my Christmas holiday learning about social networking.

This is what I've accomplished since New Year's Eve:

• added RSS feeds to my Google reader from other educators' blogs, so I know when they add a new post
• read countless blogs and articles about PLN's and social networking
• created a Ning for fourth grade teachers in my school system
• invited the teachers in my school system to join that Ning
• joined Ning in Education
• asked to become colleagues of several educators I found on that Ning
• wrote this post to my blog

I'm excited to see how the next couple of weeks go. I hope to hear from the other educators I've connected with over this holiday break. Also I'm hoping to participate in an online collaborative project with another teacher. If all goes well, my next step is to set up a Ning for my students so they can begin to build their PLN's.

Well, 2009 is off to a great start. Let's all Ning in the New Year!