Introduction
An important part of learning is to build your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) – a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.

What exactly is a PLN?
In his article, “Grow Your Personal Learning Network: New Technologies Can Keep You Connected and Help You Manage Information Overload”, David Warlick describes a Personal Learning Network as follows:
'Personal learning networks (PLNs) are not new. We have long relied on our families, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to supplement our knowledge about the world. Our professional learning also comes from reference books, the textbooks we carried home from college, the television and radio stations we tune in to, and the professional and personal-interest periodicals to which we subscribe. And we have been connecting with people and information through the digital realm for decades. But the times are still changing. Information and communication technologies (ICT), including an ever-growing repertoire of open source applications, have freed content from the printed page, giving voice to the ideas of people we have never had access to before and enabling us to reshape our information experiences to suit our learning needs.'