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Develop your Professional Learning Network with Social Media
A presentation for educators who are hoping to develop their PLN and would like to know about how they can grow their network using different types of digital tools.
Please note some details have changed! I am now at kayoddone on Twitter and my new blog is linkinglearning.com.au :)
1.
Getting Connected with
Social Media to develop a
Professional Learning Network
Kay Oddone
@KayC28
2.
•WHAT is a PLN?
•WHY a PLN?
•HOW to grow a PLN?
3.
What is a PLN?
“Professional Learning Network”
“Personal Learning Network”
“Passionate Learning Network”
4.
Teacher-driven, global support
networks that decrease isolation
and promote interdependence.
Flanigan, R. L. (2011, October 26).
Professional Learning Networks Taking
Off. Education Week. Retrieved from
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/201
1/10/26/09edtech-network.h31.html
What is a PLN?
5.
flickr photo by mrsdkrebs Our PLN – A charging station
http://flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/7323987660 shared under a Creative
Commons (BY) license
6.
6
We can no longer personally
experience and acquire all
the learning that we need.
We derive our competence
from forming connections.
Are PLN’s based in research?
George Siemens, 2004,
http://www.elearnspace.org/
Articles/connectivism.htm
flickr photo by PhillipWest
http://flickr.com/photos/phillipwest/505158448
shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
7.
cc licenced (by-nc-sa) Flickr photo shared by
Courosa
8.
cc licenced (by-nc-sa) Flickr photo shared by
Courosa
13.
• Social Networking
• Privacy maintenance
• Identity management
• Creating content
• Organising content
• Reusing and repurposing
• Filtering and selecting
Learners need new literacies…
And so do we…
14.
The best way to learn is to do…
It’s your
PERSONAL
learning network
so choose the
tool or tools that
fit you best.
15.
•WHAT is a PLN?
•WHY a PLN?
•HOW to grow a PLN?
16.
Diigo Twitter Facebook Blogging
Four to Explore
19.
Positives
Negatives
• Terrific websites sent to your inbox
• Sharing is easy and just takes one click
• A community of like-minded educators
• Very few random posts unrelated to the topic
• Less immediate feedback
• Diigo on mobile devices is
clunky
21.
10 minutes on Twitter…
Article on developing
collaboration within the
school staff.
Video demonstrating the
latest in Augmented
Reality for teaching.
22.
Complete lesson plan with
resources on inventions &
innovation.
Professional reading
about Gamification and
learning.
10 minutes on Twitter…
23.
A tip off for a great app to
investigate for screencasting.
A blog post about
cybersafety and AskFM.
10 minutes on Twitter…
24.
It’s the quality of your network
that counts…
Local
tweeps
share your
context
25.
It’s the quality of your network
that counts…
International
tweeps offer
different
perspectives
27.
Sharing is important…
Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
Derek Sivers
28.
Positives
Negatives
• Constant flow of information and ideas
• Mobile apps mean sharing can be on the go
• Able to connect with like minded people all over the world
• Terrific at conferences and for attending conferences ‘virtually’
• Can be overwhelming
• Spam can be an issue
• Unrelated posts can be distracting
31.
Positives
Negatives
• Familiar interface
• Huge population of users
• Great way to have a discussion in real time
• Mobile apps are solid and easy to use
• Privacy is always changing
• Complex to keep professional and
personal separated
• Can be a huge timewaster!
33.
Steve Wheeler:
Why teachers should blog
Seven reasons teachers should
blog / Steve Wheeler / CC BY-
NC-SA 3.0
34.
2. It clarifies and
crystallises your
thinking
1. It helps build
reflective practice
3. You become a
teacher within a
different context 4. It provides a
source of feedback &
network
Seven reasons teachers should
blog / Steve Wheeler / CC BY-
NC-SA 3.0
41.
Positives
Negatives
• Information comes to you via tool of your choice
• Stay informed of the latest research/thinking of leaders in area
• Deeper information than tweets or links
• Little to no interactivity and feedback
• Pressure of publication
42.
Where will your
PLN take you?
Take me with you
on your journey!
Where Follow me
kayo28
kayc28
linkinglearning.
wordpress.com
Siemens, in 2004, outlined his theory of Connectivism, which is a theory of learning that moves from within the individual, where traditional learning theories such as constructivism and behaviourism, and
explores the act of making connections between various data sets or sites of knowledge or information.
He suggests that learning resides in diversity of opinions,
and that it may reside in places other than humans (i.e. within computer networks such as the internet).
Connectivism is a learning theory for the digital age, as it suggests that the capacity to know is more critical than what is currently known, and that the ability to make and maintain connections (between people, ideas, concepts etc) is a major purpose of learning.
Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology & media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada.
Write up tools you use on sticky notes and we shall see the ways currently using PLNs
Groups – join like minded educators sharing their found resources
A presentation for educators who are hoping to develop their PLN and would like to know about how they can grow their network using different types of digital tools.
Please note some details have changed! I am now at kayoddone on Twitter and my new blog is linkinglearning.com.au :)
1.
Getting Connected with
Social Media to develop a
Professional Learning Network
Kay Oddone
@KayC28
2.
•WHAT is a PLN?
•WHY a PLN?
•HOW to grow a PLN?
3.
What is a PLN?
“Professional Learning Network”
“Personal Learning Network”
“Passionate Learning Network”
4.
Teacher-driven, global support
networks that decrease isolation
and promote interdependence.
Flanigan, R. L. (2011, October 26).
Professional Learning Networks Taking
Off. Education Week. Retrieved from
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/201
1/10/26/09edtech-network.h31.html
What is a PLN?
5.
flickr photo by mrsdkrebs Our PLN – A charging station
http://flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/7323987660 shared under a Creative
Commons (BY) license
6.
6
We can no longer personally
experience and acquire all
the learning that we need.
We derive our competence
from forming connections.
Are PLN’s based in research?
George Siemens, 2004,
http://www.elearnspace.org/
Articles/connectivism.htm
flickr photo by PhillipWest
http://flickr.com/photos/phillipwest/505158448
shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
7.
cc licenced (by-nc-sa) Flickr photo shared by
Courosa
8.
cc licenced (by-nc-sa) Flickr photo shared by
Courosa
13.
• Social Networking
• Privacy maintenance
• Identity management
• Creating content
• Organising content
• Reusing and repurposing
• Filtering and selecting
Learners need new literacies…
And so do we…
14.
The best way to learn is to do…
It’s your
PERSONAL
learning network
so choose the
tool or tools that
fit you best.
15.
•WHAT is a PLN?
•WHY a PLN?
•HOW to grow a PLN?
16.
Diigo Twitter Facebook Blogging
Four to Explore
19.
Positives
Negatives
• Terrific websites sent to your inbox
• Sharing is easy and just takes one click
• A community of like-minded educators
• Very few random posts unrelated to the topic
• Less immediate feedback
• Diigo on mobile devices is
clunky
21.
10 minutes on Twitter…
Article on developing
collaboration within the
school staff.
Video demonstrating the
latest in Augmented
Reality for teaching.
22.
Complete lesson plan with
resources on inventions &
innovation.
Professional reading
about Gamification and
learning.
10 minutes on Twitter…
23.
A tip off for a great app to
investigate for screencasting.
A blog post about
cybersafety and AskFM.
10 minutes on Twitter…
24.
It’s the quality of your network
that counts…
Local
tweeps
share your
context
25.
It’s the quality of your network
that counts…
International
tweeps offer
different
perspectives
27.
Sharing is important…
Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
Derek Sivers
28.
Positives
Negatives
• Constant flow of information and ideas
• Mobile apps mean sharing can be on the go
• Able to connect with like minded people all over the world
• Terrific at conferences and for attending conferences ‘virtually’
• Can be overwhelming
• Spam can be an issue
• Unrelated posts can be distracting
31.
Positives
Negatives
• Familiar interface
• Huge population of users
• Great way to have a discussion in real time
• Mobile apps are solid and easy to use
• Privacy is always changing
• Complex to keep professional and
personal separated
• Can be a huge timewaster!
33.
Steve Wheeler:
Why teachers should blog
Seven reasons teachers should
blog / Steve Wheeler / CC BY-
NC-SA 3.0
34.
2. It clarifies and
crystallises your
thinking
1. It helps build
reflective practice
3. You become a
teacher within a
different context 4. It provides a
source of feedback &
network
Seven reasons teachers should
blog / Steve Wheeler / CC BY-
NC-SA 3.0
41.
Positives
Negatives
• Information comes to you via tool of your choice
• Stay informed of the latest research/thinking of leaders in area
• Deeper information than tweets or links
• Little to no interactivity and feedback
• Pressure of publication
42.
Where will your
PLN take you?
Take me with you
on your journey!
Where Follow me
kayo28
kayc28
linkinglearning.
wordpress.com
Siemens, in 2004, outlined his theory of Connectivism, which is a theory of learning that moves from within the individual, where traditional learning theories such as constructivism and behaviourism, and
explores the act of making connections between various data sets or sites of knowledge or information.
He suggests that learning resides in diversity of opinions,
and that it may reside in places other than humans (i.e. within computer networks such as the internet).
Connectivism is a learning theory for the digital age, as it suggests that the capacity to know is more critical than what is currently known, and that the ability to make and maintain connections (between people, ideas, concepts etc) is a major purpose of learning.
Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology & media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada.
Write up tools you use on sticky notes and we shall see the ways currently using PLNs
Groups – join like minded educators sharing their found resources