The document discusses crowdsourcing and creating a personal learning network (PLN). It encourages teachers to build a PLN to find inspiration, fresh ideas, ideas different from their own, new friends, colleagues, and peers. It notes that schools are no longer the only place for education and discusses moving beyond how to do school better to how to do it differently. The document provides steps for creating a PLN using tools like Twitter, blogs, and other options. It also discusses showcasing ideas, hearing all sides, implementing ideas, giving feedback, and helping others.

1. Teacher Edition
Crowd Sourcing
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2. Brilliantly simple, it says any time you're in a meeting where you're not contributing
nor adding value--you are encouraged to use your two feet and find a place where
you can. In other words, if it's not meaningful, and you're not doing your part to
make it meaningful, move on.
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www.flickr.com/photos/qf8/3737747747/ Darwin meets Dilbert: Applying the Law of Two Feet to your next meeting
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3. Multi-tasking
http://coffeechugcrowdsourcing.wikispaces.com
• Visit during presentation
• Add your knowledge to wiki
• Learn from wiki
• Q and A/Discussion at the end
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4. Imagine if you will....
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11. • The answer is “lighthouse keeper”.
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12. • Who is
more
isolated
than a
classroom
teacher?
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13. • Do you have to be
connected to be a
good teacher?
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14. Where do you go to find
• Inspiration
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15. Where do you go to find
• Fresh Ideas
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16. Where do you go to find
• Ideas different
from your own
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17. PLN
Personal Learning Network
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18. Where do you go to find...
• New friends
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19. Where do you go to find...
• New friends, colleagues
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20. Where do you go to find...
• New friends, colleagues, peers
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21. Where do you go to find...
• New friends, colleagues, peers, and
collaborators
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22. PLN
Personal Learning Network
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23. When you got into
education
• school was the only education in town
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24. When you got into
education
• school was the place kids came for information
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25. When you got into
education
• we were responsible for disseminating the
knowledge
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26. When you got into
education
• we assessed whether our students got it
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27. When you got into
education
• we were the official education
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28. Today
• school is only
ONE place for
education both
real and virtual
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29. We should be asking
• not how to do
school better,
but how to do it
differently?
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30. What do we mean by
• LEARNING?
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31. What do we mean by
• being LITERATE
in a networked
connected world?
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32. What do we mean by
• being “educated”?
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33. This mindset starts
• with us
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34. This mindset starts
• with us, YOU
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35. This mindset starts
• with us, YOU, the
educator
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36. This mindset starts
• with us, YOU, the
educator, RIGHT
NOW!
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37. Crowdsource
Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online
community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Often used to subdivide
tedious work or to fund-raise startup companies and charities, this process can occur
both online and offline.[1] The general concept is to combine the efforts of crowds of
volunteers or part-time workers, where each one could contribute a small portion, which
adds into a relatively large or significant result. Crowdsourcing is different from an
ordinary outsourcing since it is a task or problem that is outsourced to an undefined
public rather than to a specific, named group.
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38. Step 1: Don’t be
scared!
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39. Step 2: Create a PLN
Graphic from http://blog.misterhamada.com/category/k12-learning-2-0/
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40. created using mentionmapp.com
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41. YOUR PLN
is to connect
with people to
help you learn
PLN is to share
learning and
life.
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42. My PLN is MINE!
Your PLN is YOURS
We are all teachers
We are all learners
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43. Use what you want
as long as you
LEARN!
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44. Option #1: Twitter
Fast, easy, and available anywhere!
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45. How to Start?
• 1. Find people you like and admire
• 2. Find name and follow
• 3. Check who they follow/their
followers
• 4. Check retweets
• 5. Twitter Lists
• 6. Bonus: Twitter tools
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46. created using tweepsmap.com
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47. Your PLN is about YOU!
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48. Option #2: Blogs
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49. How to Start?
• 1. Find people you like and admire
• 2. Find name and follow blog
• 3. Check who they are reading on
blogroll
• 4. Check links
• 5. Check comments
• 6. Use RSS Feed
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50. Other options
• Diigo
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• Instagram
• Google Communities, Hangout, G+
• **We don’t have enough time!**
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51. Step 3: Showcase ideas
Perhaps we
Hey I have should talk?
an idea!
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52. Step 4: Hear all sides
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53. Step 5: Implement
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54. Step 6: Give feedback/
recap
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55. Step 7: Help others
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56. Crowdsource
Experiment
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