Blog#2: Chapter 6
There are many benefits to being a part of a connected learning community, especially with personal learning networks. These networks help individuals accomplish a professional goal or a personal interest by allowing people to think deeper and gather more knowledge about a certain topic. Networks allow you to receive more information that you can use to help the people in your communities receive more information. Starting your own personal learning network has a lot of steps like who you should follow and making sure that they are trustworthy, borrowing from bloggers, and using social bookmarking. The job is not finished after you make your personal learning network you have to keep it up to date by making sure you engage in conversation with people. If you do not the network has no purpose anymore because there is no relay of information back and forth. You also have to make sure that you are bringing in the right kind of people because the internet has a lot of bad people out ther