• Can your PLN be used to help professional development post-course?

yes, absolutely, PLN is something you can continuesly build up thruought the year, and therefore, it is definitely something you can keep utilize after the post course period. You can always build up small in some area amd gradually emerge into that area to have influence, for exmaple while you are in course you can reach to the professional associated pages or people in your interest or join a community of that kinda a interest to build the base for that type of professional development in the future.

  • Can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?

Yes, joining into communities will help you emerge into the social space and as you are you gain professionality step by step of your own knolwege you will be able to further emerge into the community by giving back to these people in the community and thus slowly build connections in the professional cirlcle and thus earn more insight and professional opporutnities.

  • You do not have to review the complete video – select sections you think are important to reflect on, and please reference the time index in your references.

The sections that is important are how to start, most of us here are really Blank piece of paper when it comes to starting up PLN, and we have never done it before, in the video I could not recall for when but there were a clear distinctive messege in reaching out, if you don’t have the direct professionalism or what it takes to connect to reach out, merge yourself into a community and once you have had a little bit of knowlege of yourself after learning from the group and doing your own reasearch, merge more into the group by slowly sharing stuff back and fourth with them to build interaction with one another. This is very important because this can help the newbies which have no personal connection or no influence in thier own blog to build their connections, they can join a group and learn bit by bit and eventually go on to build connections with the group.