The 21 st Century Educator: Embracing Web 2.0 in Your Professional Practice Presented by Kim Cofino Teach IT! Conference November 2007

Understanding PLNs: PLNs vs. Learning Communities Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/paulgalipeau/253886419/ Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/kikisdad/164585156/

Understanding PLNs: Who’s in Your Network? Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/k2d2vaca/826609448/ What do you think?

Evolution of an Educator August 2006 present

Evolution of an Educator: Pre-PLN Cell image from: http://flickr.com/photos/25135663@N00/6787341/ Fish image from: http://flickr.com/photos/colodio/114891127/

Evolution of an Educator: Simple Beginnings

Evolution of an Educator: Personal Contributions

Evolution of an Educator: Global Conferencing

Evolution of an Educator: Sampling the Spectrum

Evolution of an Educator: Forming Groups

Evolution of an Educator: Making Connections

Evolution of an Educator: Investing in Collaborations

Evolution of an Educator: Joining Communities

Evolution of an Educator: Constantly Connecting

Evolution of an Educator: Where are you? Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/rdaassoc/513882871/ What do you think?

Collegial Connections 2.0

Collegial Connections 2.0

Collegial Connections 2.0

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 Image from: http://www.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2007/07/rss-icon-collection.png

Grow Your Own PLN: Social Networking

Grow Your Own PLN: Blogs

Grow Your Own PLN: VoIP Image from: http://21talks.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/skypeMac.jpg

Grow Your Own PLN: Virtually There

Grow Your Own PLN: Twitter

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: Possibilities for Your Professional Practice? Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/100050220/ What do you think?