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Develop your Professional Learning Network with Social Media
This document discusses professional learning networks (PLNs) and how to develop one using social media. It defines a PLN as a teacher-driven global support network that decreases isolation. The benefits of a PLN include accessing ongoing learning, forming connections with others, and deriving competence from those connections. It recommends starting with platforms like Diigo, Twitter, Facebook, or blogging to connect with others, share resources and ideas, and gain different perspectives. Mobile apps allow sharing on the go. The document compares features of different tools and encourages growing one's PLN to continue learning and take advantage of opportunities to connect with others.
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- 1. Getting Connected with SocialMedia to develop a Professional Learning Network Kay Oddone @KayC28
- 2. •WHAT is aPLN? •WHY a PLN? •HOW to grow a PLN?
- 3. What is aPLN? “Professional Learning Network” “Personal Learning Network” “Passionate Learning Network”
- 4. Teacher-driven, global support networksthat 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 bymrsdkrebs Our PLN – A charging station http://flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/7323987660 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
- 6. 6 We can nolonger 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
- 9. What does yourPLN look like?
- 10. •WHAT is aPLN? •WHY a PLN? •HOW to grow a PLN?
- 11. Why have aPLN?
- 12. Why have aPLN?
- 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…
- 15. The best wayto learn is to do… It’s your PERSONAL learning network so choose the tool or tools that fit you best.
- 16. •WHAT is aPLN? •WHY a PLN? •HOW to grow a PLN?
- 17. Diigo Twitter FacebookBlogging Four to Explore
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- 19. Diigo – The TeacherLibrarian Group
- 23. Positives Negatives • Terrific websitessent 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
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- 25. 10 minutes onTwitter… Article on developing collaboration within the school staff. Video demonstrating the latest in Augmented Reality for teaching.
- 26. Complete lesson planwith resources on inventions & innovation. Professional reading about Gamification and learning. 10 minutes on Twitter…
- 27. A tip offfor a great app to investigate for screencasting. A blog post about cybersafety and AskFM. 10 minutes on Twitter…
- 28. It’s the qualityof your network that counts… Local tweeps share your context
- 29. It’s the qualityof your network that counts… International tweeps offer different perspectives
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- 31. Sharing is important… Obviousto you. Amazing to others. Derek Sivers
- 32. Positives Negatives • Constant flowof 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
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- 36. 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!
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- 38. Steve Wheeler: Why teachersshould blog Seven reasons teachers should blog / Steve Wheeler / CC BY- NC-SA 3.0
- 39. 2. It clarifiesand 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
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- 41. Three tools totry Outlook Feedly Flipboard
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- 49. Positives Negatives • Information comesto 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
- 50. Where will your PLNtake you? Take me with you on your journey! Where Follow me kayo28 kayc28 linkinglearning. wordpress.com
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Editor's Notes
- #7 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.
- #8 Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology & media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada.
- #10 Write up tools you use on sticky notes and we shall see the ways currently using PLNs
- #19 Groups – join like minded educators sharing their found resources Create your own groups with colleagues
- #25 http://www.thinglink.com/scene/504101944042717185
- #32 http://youtu.be/xcmI5SSQLmE