Personal Learning Networks

Working on your personal learning network can take up a lot of your time during the day. You feel like you are getting caught up on your tweeting and blogging, then you realize that the technology and/or the social network sites have changed and opps, you've gotten somewhere, but you are behind...again! At work I waited and waited and waited to get administrative rights on my laptop and desktop. After four years I can download a tweet deck by myself! Sorry, I am complaining, but what a relief that I will be able to use twitter during conferences and workshops now. I can use the "back channel" feature and hashtag everything. Sometimes educational institutions hold up learning by controlling the networks and computers way too much. I'm ready to celebrate this one - the ability to download from the Internet onto my laptop! Sometimes simple breakthroughs make me happy.