If you are not actively keeping up with your own learning and professional development, you are falling behind. Learn how to build a Personal Learning Network (PLN) to provide you with learning from leaders, experts and colleagues around the world.
3. Formal education is a walk through the zoo,
informal learning is a walk through the
savannah. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/godutchbaby/4432480199/
4. Formal education is knowing a tomato is a
fruit, informal learning is not using it in fruit
salad. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaspantry/3554762608/
5. Formal education is bricks and mortar,
social learning is clouds and streams
http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/
6. Formal education is the playbook, social
learning is the huddle
http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/55214370/
7. What is a learning network?
a deliberately formed network of people and
resources capable of guiding our
independent learning goals and professional
development needs.
8. Content Commentary Research Experience Conversation
Experts Colleagues Friends
Filter Filter Filter
Filter Filter
Creation
Curation
Sharing
YOU
Adapted from “Creating a Personal Learning Network,” http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387
9. My learning network?
Content Social Curation
Zite Twitter Diigo
Flipboard Facebook Pinterest
Google Google + Scoop.it
Reader
Google
Alerts
10. Google Alerts
Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds
new results -- such as web pages, newspaper articles, or
blogs -- that match your search term. You can use
Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web.
For example, people use Google Alerts to:
• find out what is being said about their company or
product.
• monitor a developing news story.
• keep up to date on a competitor or industry.
• get the latest news on a celebrity or sports team.
• find out what's being said about themselves.
18. Power/value of network
• Exposure to incidental information
– You don’t know what you need to know
• Asking questions
• Connectedness
• Awareness of trends
• What are others doing / talking about
19. • Exposure to incidental information
– You don’t know what you need to know
24. How to find people
• Start with who you already know
• Connections:
– Who follows you?
– Who do they follow?
– Who follows them?
– Who do they retweet?
– Look at lists
32. Search for Topics on Twitter
• Go to twitter.com
or
search.twitter.com
• Type a topic in the
search bar
• Use the “Tweets”
tab for people who
have tweeted the
term
33. Search for Topics on Twitter
Check for better search results by using a hashtag.
• Hashtags are a community-driven convention for
adding additional context to tweets.
• You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word
with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
• Hashtags were developed as a means to create
"groupings" on Twitter, without having to change
the basic service.
34. Your activity matters
• If you are active in online networks, and
engage with others, interesting people will
find you.
• For example:
– @JerryBuchko and Military Families Learning
Network and Network Literacy