THINKING GLOBALLY, DELIVERING LOCALLY Web 2.0 and PLNs 26 th March 2009 Developing a 'Personal Learning Network‘ Darcy Moore

Rubric Build your own PLN using Web 2.0 tools like Twitter , Google Reader , WordPress blogs, RSS feeds and social bookmarking with Delicious.

Build your own PLN using Web 2.0 tools like Twitter , Google Reader , WordPress blogs, RSS feeds and social bookmarking with Delicious.

By the end of the session... We will have considered: Web 2.0 tools that enable us to communicate, create, collaborate and connect the concept of a 'Personal Learning Network' (PLN)

We will have considered:

Web 2.0 tools that enable us to communicate, create, collaborate and connect

the concept of a 'Personal Learning Network' (PLN)

Why? In times of unprecedented change we need to collaborate using powerful online tools and, to use a metaphor that has been floating around for a while, ‘build planes as they fly’ Developing a PLN is the most effective way of learning about the tools, as we use them and discover more from colleagues – locally and internationally

In times of unprecedented change we need to collaborate using powerful online tools and, to use a metaphor that has been floating around for a while, ‘build planes as they fly’

Developing a PLN is the most effective way of learning about the tools, as we use them and discover more from colleagues – locally and internationally

WEB 2.0 DO YOU GET IT?

DO YOU GET IT?

Participatory Media Web 2.0 or the read/write web is about participation and community Our participation is essential if students are to get the full benefit of ‘learning devices’ and wireless connectivity All the tools are basically free (and fun) We will continue to learn while ‘building planes’

Web 2.0 or the read/write web is about participation and community

Our participation is essential if students are to get the full benefit of ‘learning devices’ and wireless connectivity

All the tools are basically free (and fun)

We will continue to learn while ‘building planes’

Just checking… Please complete the handout…

Please complete the handout…

What is a PLN?

My ‘Personal Learning Network’ I click on links sent via Often I save them to These sites are then fed into my Using an RSS feed

I click on links sent via

Often I save them to

These sites are then fed into my

Using an RSS feed

Micro-blogging What are you doing?

Paranoid? Protect my updates. Only let people whom I approve follow my updates. If this is checked, you WILL NOT be on the public timeline . Updates posted previously may still be publicly visible in some places.

Protect my updates. Only let people whom I approve follow my updates. If this is checked, you WILL NOT be on the public timeline . Updates posted previously may still be publicly visible in some places.

Social Bookmarking

RSS Feeds & Google Reader

Blogging

My Blog Has become an important part of my PLN My blog is personal and professional Other educators follow me on Twitter and see my updates, have an RSS feed on my blog and are part of my ‘Delicious’ network Increasingly they are on We know and trust each other

Has become an important part of my PLN

My blog is personal and professional

Other educators follow me on Twitter and see my updates, have an RSS feed on my blog and are part of my ‘Delicious’ network

Increasingly they are on

We know and trust each other

"We teach others by teaching ourselves anew." Garth Boomer

Ways of Seeing "The real voyage of discovery consists not in having new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in having new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

Blog: http://darcymoore.wordpress.com/ Email: [email_address] Twitter: http://twitter.com/Darcy1968 Delicious: http://delicious.com/Darcy1968 Collaborate with Darcy Moore