Networked Learning for Educators

Build It and They Will Come: Networked Learning for Educators Lucy Gray CESA 5 February 1, 2009

Agenda • Overview of social networks and education • Brainstorming • Construction • New and Noteworthy in Ed Tech • Resources for Building and Sustaining Capacity

Goals • Review responsibilities for semester 2 • Examine active and successful online networks for educators • Construct a space for CESA 5 educators • Determine guidelines for this new space • Discover resources for leveraging personalized PD

Buzzwords Have you heard of any others? • Professional Learning Communities • Social networks • Virtual learning environments • Personal Learning Networks • Professional learning networks networks

Another buzzword... Personalized learning is here and not just for students. In order for us to transform learning, we must transform professional development and make it relevant, meaningful and engaging.

So what do these spaces look like?

Classroom 2.0

The Global Education Collaborative

Setting the Standard

Punahou Technology Lab School

Literacy Coaches

Making Curriculum Pop

Ethical Expeditions

ISTE Community

ISTE 2010

K12 Online Conference

Middle School Portal

Grant Wrangler

VoiceThread For

ISE Network

Wild Earth TV

Learn Central

Take a few minutes to explore these networks....

What does your community need? Time to brainstorm!

Move Into Groups In small groups, select a cool tool: • Mindmeister • Wallwisher • Posterous • Google Docs

Think About... Next, generate a couple of ideas on each of the following topics: • Needed features and tools • Community building activities & strategies • Guidelines and protocols to encourage participation • Outside resources that could enhance this space • What’s needed for the group space? for the communal space?

Post a link or a document to the discussion forum here.

Share out!

The Survey Says: Advice from my PLN

Time to start building... • Keep your learning strategies in mind • Plan activities that directly support these strategies • Focus on your learning group’s space in the community • Then, add features that beneﬁt the group at large

Ideas for Groups • Calendars • Lists of tasks • Go To Meeting events • Bibliographies using • Skype meetings Google Book Search • Think about facilitation roles • Links • Tutorials • Plan tasks for coming weeks and meetings • Surveys

Questions?

New & Noteworthy Educon K12 Horizon Report Google Apps Education Edition

Resources for Extending PD • Twitter • Webinars and Webcasts • Tweetdeck • EdTechTalk • Go To Meeting • Future of Education • Skype • Conversations.net • Discovery Education • Educon

Evaluation & Reﬂection http://tinyurl.com/cesa5evaluation

Stay in touch... elemenous@gmail.com http://twitter.com/elemenous AIM/iChat: elemenous

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