EuroCALL - Before & After Twitter : the Personal Learning Environment

Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments EuroCALL September 2010
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Outline of Presentation Before & After Twitter
- How is it being used?
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) - PLE vs PLN - PLE vs VLE - Helping Teachers Twitter & English Learners - Introducing learners Questions

http://www.twitter.com/grahamstanley

http://www.flickr.com/photos/restlessglobetrotter

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iateflonline

http://www.flickr.com/photos/s3a/m/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aye_shamus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepses
before twitter...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christchurchcitylibraries

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jliba/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathtogutenberg

image: Joyce Seitzinger, e-learning instructional designer : http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/ PLE vs PLN More PLE Diagrams here: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

image: Francesc Esteve, educational analyst, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid http://www.francescesteve.es/ PLE vs VLE PLE - open learning - informal learning - student/teacher owned - small pieces loosely joined

Some Benefits
"As people communicate online, that conversation becomes part of a
lively, significant, public digital knowledge - rather than chatting for one
moment with a small group of friends and colleagues, every person
potentially has access to a global audience. Taken together, that
conversation also creates a mode of knowing we've never had
before...these diverse viewpoints help us get past the biases of
individuals..." (Weinberger, 2007:146)

Social software Spoilt for choice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipeapple/3280609082/

“ Social software offers the opportunity to narrow the divide between producers and consumers. Consumers themselves become producers, through creating and sharing. One implication is the potential for a new ecology of ‘open’ content, books, learning materials and multimedia, through learners themselves becoming producers of learning materials.” (Attwell, 2007) New approach to using technologies for learning.

Barriers against Teacher take-up - “ twittiquete ” - impression of Twitter cliques
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubspot/3111238226/

Autonomous 'Personal Learning Networks’ for Language Teachers APLaNeT Seven Partners: ISTEK, Turkey University West Scotland, UK – Sofia University, Bulgaria British Council, Spain – EuroEd Foundation, Romania CELT Athens, Greece – Pelikan, Czech Republic Associate Partners – 140 institutions from 33 countries

not 'build and they will come' but go to where the people are

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
guide people to existing professional resources / networks

inform about and support teachers in a wide variety of social networks

http://twitter.com/learnenglish_BC
bringing learners together

introducing learners to Twitter

learners use of Twitter

Twitter as a student self-help line the mobile factor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/3616155715/

References http://eltple.wikispaces.com/
- Attwell (2007) Personal Learning Environments – the future of e-learning ?
www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media11561.pdf - Downes (2010) Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Project http://ple.elg.ca/ - Various (2010) Personal Learning Environments http://edutechwiki.unige.ch - Weinberger (2007) The Power of the New Digital Disorder (New York:Holt)

www.twitter.com/grahamstanley http://blog-efl.blogspot.com

EuroCALL - Before & After Twitter : the Personal Learning Environment

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