I just read You Can’t Have a PLN of One, an oxymoron, which concludes that a PLN is “a journey that shouldn’t be taken alone”. Well, it is impossible to cultivate a PLN alone: my thoughts on a PLN.
Some view a PLN as more ideational…
http://youtu.be/KVsapdwo50M
Others discuss a PLN in terms of tools and individuals…
http://youtu.be/q6WVEFE-oZA
So, a PLN is a relationship between ideas, materials (technologies), and human relationships. To understand any one idea, material, or individual (relationship) is to understand the other two and how trace associations aggregate to each individual node. A node is any idea, material, or individual who connects to some other network node. There’s one network, but many nodes: ideas, materials, and individual relationships. So, perhaps you can have a PLN of one … as in one personal learning network.