1. Plan Your Online PLC
1.1. Needs Assessment
1.1.1. Analysis of the participants
1.1.1.1. Roles of the participants
1.1.1.1.1. Teachers
1.1.1.1.2. Students
1.1.1.1.3. Administrators
1.1.1.2. Knowledge and skills to certain technology
1.1.1.2.1. Navigate the website
1.1.1.2.2. Uploading and downloading
1.1.1.2.3. Posting a Blog
1.1.1.2.4. Editing HTML pages
1.1.1.2.5. Image/video editing
1.1.2. Purposes of the PLC
1.1.2.1. Make Time?
1.1.2.2. Collaboration?
1.1.2.3. Promoting?
1.1.2.4. Sharing works?
1.1.3. Timeline of Implementation
1.2. Sketching your PLC site
1.2.1. Contents
1.2.1.1. Collaborative planning and resource-sharing
1.2.1.2. Curricular understanding and effective instructional strategies
1.2.1.3. Collaborative editing and online meeting space
1.2.1.4. Curriculum, instruction, resource-sharing, and networking
1.2.1.5. video records, pictures, PDFs
1.2.2. Structure
1.2.2.1. Collaborative editing and online meeting space
1.2.2.2. Online community
1.2.2.3. Microblogging platform
1.2.2.4. File sharing
1.2.3. Tools
2. Build the PLC website
2.1. Set up your Wordpress Site Basics
2.1.1. Name
2.1.2. Theme
2.1.3. Layout
2.1.3.1. Create pages and categories
2.1.3.2. Set up menus
2.1.4. Description
2.1.5. Logo
2.2. Install and configure plugins based on Step 1
2.2.1. Access Control
2.2.1.1. Registration plugin
2.2.1.2. Membership Plugin
2.2.1.2.1. Create member groups
2.2.2. Sharing work
2.2.2.1. Image Gallery
2.2.2.2. Video Gallery
2.2.2.3. File uploading plugin
2.2.2.4. File downloading plugin
2.2.3. Communication
2.2.3.1. Realtime Chat Plugin
2.2.3.2. Online forum plugin
2.2.4. Collaboration
3. Test the PLC
3.1. Survey Usability issues
3.1.1. Design of the layout
3.1.2. Easiness to navigate
3.1.3. Protection of users' privacy
3.1.4. Functionality