Spicing Up Your Professional Network

Spicing Up Your Professional Learning Network Heather Hurley Instructional Technology Coordinator Arlington Traditional School Presentation Adapted from Powering Up Your Professional Learning Network by Jen Dorman [email_address] http:// jdorman.wikispaces.com /

Ask Yourself… van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24. How many Educators can I collaborate with on a daily basis?

What is a PLN? Personal Learning Network Professional Learning Network

" Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to

set their own learning goals

manage their learning; managing both content and process

communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.

A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems: As such it may be a desktop application, or composed of one or more web-based services."

van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24. Professional Learning Environment

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Stages of PLN Adoption

Stage 1 Immersion:

Immerse yourself into networks.

Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to.

Collaboration and connections take off.

Stage 2 Evaluation:

Evaluate your networks and start to focus in on which networks you really want to focus your time on.

You begin feeling a sense of urgency and try to figure out a way to “Know it all.”

Stage 3 Know it all:

Find that you are spending many hours trying to learn everything you can.

Realize there is much you do not know and feel like you can’t disconnect.

This usually comes with spending every waking minutes trying to be connected to the point that you give up sleep and contact with others around you to be connected to your networks of knowledge.

Stage 4 Perspective:

Start to put your life into perspective.

Usually comes when you are forced to leave the network for awhile and spend time with family and friends who are not connected.

Stage 5 Balance:

Try and find that balance between learning and living.

Understanding that you can not know it all, and begin to understand that you can rely on your network to learn and store knowledge for you.

A sense of calm begins as you understand that you can learn when you need to learn and you do not need to know it all right now.

What do you know?

Take an index card

5 minutes to write

What do you know about PLN’s?

and

How does technology fit?

NSDC Standard – Collaboration Skills The Standard Staff development that improves the learning of all students provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. “ While collaborative, face-to-face professional learning and work are the hallmarks of a school culture that assumes collective responsibility for student learning, technology will increasingly provide a means for new and different forms of collaboration . Technology will enable teachers and administrators from around the country and world to share ideas, strategies, and tools with one another in ways that will dramatically increase the number of collaborative links among educators. But electronic forms of such work will also present teachers and administrators with new challenges whose outlines are only becoming dimly visible as larger numbers of educators begin to use these processes to strengthen their teaching and leadership practices.” http://www.nsdc.org/standards/collaborationskills.cfm

Spicing Up Your Network

Professional Networks

http://community.discoveryeducation.com

http:// www.pbs.org /teachers/connect/

LinkedIn Groups:

NSDC

ISTE

Discovery Educator Network

Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group

http:// www.linkedin.com /

Groups

NSDC

ISTE

Second Life for Educators

Using Wikis in Education

http:// www.facebook.com /

Ning

http://www.classroom20.com/

http:// teachingeverystudent.ning.com /

http:// education.ning.com /

http:// www.neccning.org /

RSS Aggregators & Internet Start Pages

This symbol is your friend http://www.iste.org/source/Orders/isteProductDetail.cfm?product_code = newrss

Finding Feeds

Blogs, podcasts, news sites, and many other media services syndicate their content through RSS feeds

RSS – Really Simple Syndication

Customized News Feeds http:// news.google.com /

Google Reader http:// www.google.com /reader/

iGoogle http:// www.google.com/ig

Podcasts

iTunes and Podcasts

iTunesU

http:// www.gcast.com /

Microblogs

http:// twitter.com /

Mr. Tweet looks through your extended network to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. Which are my followers I should be following in return? Who are the influential people I should be following? http:// mrtweet.net /

Twitter Search http:// search.twitter.com /

If You Can Tweet Then You Can Plurk http:// www.plurk.com /

Managing Multiple Accounts

Ping.fm - http:// ping.fm /

AtomKeep - http:// www.atomkeep.com /

Desktop Applications

Twhirl - http:// www.twhirl.org /

TweetDeck - http:// tweetdeck.com /beta/

What Can You Say in 140 Characters?

Social Bookmarking and Annotating

Social Bookmarking - Delicious http:// delicious.com /

Social Annotation - Diigo http:// diigo.com /

http://tinyurl.com/6zosub

Diigo Groups

Blogging

Popular Blogging Sites

Blogger

http:// www.blogger.com /

WordPress

http:// wordpress.org /

EduBlogs

http:// edublogs.org /

Windows Live Spaces

http:// spaces.live.com /

http:// www.nsdc.org/learningBlog/index.cfm

http:// blog.discoveryeducation.com/heather_hurley

Collaborative Live Blogging with Integrated Media

http://www.coveritlive.com/

Wikis

Education-Friendly Wikis

Wikispaces

http:// www.wikispaces.com /site/for/teachers

PB Works

http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki

http:// eduwikius.wikispaces.com /

http://techatats.wikispaces.com/

Video

http:// www.youtube.com /

http:// www.ustream.tv/channel/aps --smart-connection-day http:// www.ustream.tv /

http:// www.livestream.com/barretttigertv http:// www.livestream.com /

Interactive Publishing - Photos

Presentations

http:// www.slideshare.net /

Online Presentation Tools

Prezi

http://prezi.com/

Zoho Show

http:// show.zoho.com /

Spresent

http:// www.spresent.com /

280 Slides

http://280slides.com/

Google Presentations

http:// docs.google.com /

Voicethread

http:// voicethread.com /

Photo Sharing

http:// flickr.com /

http://picasa.google.com/

http:// www.shutterfly.com /

http:// www.snapfish.com /

Flickr

Picture Walk

Choose a picture

How does this picture describe your work?

Find someone else with the same picture

Discuss with your partner

Be prepared to show and tell

Online Collaboration

Mind Mapping

http:// bubbl.us /

http:// www.gliffy.com /

http:// www.mywebspiration.com /

http:// www.zoho.com /

http:// docs.google.com /

http:// groups.google.com /

http:// sites.google.com /

Collaborative File Storage

http:// drop.io /

http:// box.net /

http://www.getdropbox.com/

Online Conference/Meetings

http:// snipurl.com/denwebinars

http:// edtechtalk.com /

http://wiki.classroom20.com/live%20conversations

VOIP / Text / Video http:// skype.com / http:// www.oovoo.com /

PLN on the MUVE

DEN in Second Life

DEN in Second Life SLURL

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/75/100/22

DEN Second Life Blog

http:// blog.discoveryeducation.com/secondlife

Peyton Merlin

ISTE Events http://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/ ISTE in SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/93/83/30 ISTE in SL Wikispace http:// secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net /

PLN Implementation Plan