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Evolution of an Educator: Pre-PLN
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Grow Your Own PLN Image
from: http://flickr.com/photos/hamed/327939900/ Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/310074290/ From here: To here:
Grow Your Own PLN: RSS
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Grow Your Own PLN: RSS
<ul><li>Seeking input </li></ul><ul><li>Learning by lurking </li></ul><ul><li>Finding your niche </li></ul><ul><li>Starting conversations </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Social
Networking <ul><li>Get involved </li></ul><ul><li>Community dialogue and discussion </li></ul><ul><li>Easy entrance to expanding your network </li></ul><ul><li>Wider audience </li></ul><ul><li>Structured format </li></ul><ul><li>Like-minded educators </li></ul><ul><li>Similar skill level </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Blogs
<ul><li>Contribute </li></ul><ul><li>Develop a “ home base ” </li></ul><ul><li>Individual reflection </li></ul><ul><li>Share your understandings </li></ul><ul><li>Push your thinking </li></ul><ul><li>Consolidate your learning </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Develop
Your Online Identity <ul><li>Image from: http://www.socialsignal.com/system/files/2007-06-24-cyberdog.gif </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: VoIP
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Grow Your Own PLN: VoIP
<ul><li>Get personal </li></ul><ul><li>Individual connections </li></ul><ul><li>Virtual colleagues </li></ul><ul><li>Quick connections for learning </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Virtually
There <ul><li>Attend, attend, attend </li></ul><ul><li>Structured PD </li></ul><ul><li>Course Credit </li></ul><ul><li>Free </li></ul><ul><li>In your PJ’s </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Twitter
<ul><li>Build personal relationships </li></ul><ul><li>Connect on an individual level </li></ul><ul><li>Expand your network </li></ul><ul><li>Constantly connected </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Future
Trends SL image from: http://advancedmedialab.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/barcamp_second_life.jpg FlashMeeting image from: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/marc/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/flashmeeting1.jpg
Grow Your Own PLN: Become
Interconnected <ul><li>Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/chibijosh/38269880/ </li></ul>
Grow Your Own PLN: Possibilities
for Your Professional Practice? Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/100050220/ What do you think?
Grow Your Own PLN: Start
Small <ul><li>Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/816383628/ </li></ul>Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/areay89/276704743/