This presentation demonstrates how educators can develop a productive online presence to help nurture their own professional development. You will be introduced to effective and progressive steps towards building a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Techniques such as social bookmarking, blogging, and using twitter will be explored. All of these allow educators to tap into immensely powerful networks of like-minded educators while building a sustainable and rewarding online portfolio of their key professional interests. It follows a series of blog posts (which inevitably will need updating) that may be accessed (in reverse order) here:http://opengecko.com/tag/15minpln/ It is partly comprised of other people’s images which I have credited where possible.In the same spirit of sharing as those whose work I’ve borrowed, this presentation by James Penstone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

1. Building Personal Learning Networks for Do It Yourself Professional Development James Penstone www.linkedin.com/in/jamespenstone www.diigo.com/user/jamespenstone www.slideshare.net/jamespenstone twitter.com/#!/jamespenstone opengecko.com/ http://www.scoop.it/t/opengecko

2. The Blurb James Penstone ... is embracing new online technologies. He is very keen to share his discoveries and insights into safe and productive use of the Internet. This presentation demonstrates how educators can develop a productive online presence to help nurture their own professional development. You will be introduced to effective and progressive steps towards building a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Techniques such as social bookmarking, blogging, and using twitter will be explored. All of these allow educators to tap into immensely powerful networks of like-minded educators while building a sustainable and rewarding online portfolio of their key professional interests.

3. http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=610

4. 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years

5. #15MINPLN No. 1 – Understand what a PLN is and why it is worth developing Image: Some rights reserved by zoutedrop

6. Sketchy Explanation: Starting a PLN

7. #15MINPLN No. 2 – Breathe in, Breathe Out Image: By Alan Vernon.Some rights reserved

8. BT Broadband Commercial Image: Some rights reserved by Will Lion

9. Focused Breathing Image: Some rights reserved by Thowra_uk

10. Prepare to Breathe In Start a list. A rough map of the things you want to gain your professional development in. Here are some ideas: Subjects / Disciplines / Curricular Areas you are interested in. For me, currently, that could primarily be Geography, Economics and Theory Of Knowledge. General interests in education. For me that would be things like educational technology (edtech), student voice, leadership, the very broad notion of twenty first century education, intercultural education, and self-led professional development. Specific interests linked to the above: e.g. for me, a few examples include: use of Google Apps in the classroom, use of Infographics in learning and ways of disseminating (edtech) initiatives within a school.

11. Prepare to Breathe Out List the aspects of your role as an educator which you could share with a highly-connected international community of like-minded educators. This could be something you consider yourself to know quite a bit about and already have resources, tips, methods, thoughts to share on. Or, it could be something you want to gradually become more proficient at, and are prepared to share what you are learning as you do so. For example, I am learning about developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN)

12. #15MINPLN No. 3 – Deciding Who You Are (Online) Image: Some rights reserved by fotologic

13. Image: Some rights reserved by Dave Makes

14. What will be your ‘avatar’ image? An icon? A picture of you? Will you state where you work? Your position? How will that reflect on where you work? What might your colleagues / managers think of this association? Where you live? Will you make references to family? Chances are that some of the social networking tools you will be using will at some point involve invitations from / to family members and friends – is this OK with you? Will you reference previous employment? Do you want some kind of ‘tagline’? What are your interests? How can you be succinct about these? As a guideline: when you set up a twitter account, you get to write a bio in 160 characters.Try it.

15. #15MINPLN No. 4 – 15+ minutes of Inspiration Image: Some rights reserved by WebWizzard

16. Examples to explore … http://edte.ch/blog/ http://dougbelshaw.com/ http://olliebray.typepad.com/ http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/ http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/ http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/ http://www.thethinkingstick.com/ http://kimcofino.com/

17. (#15MINPLN No. 5 Staking Out Your Corner of The Google Universe) Image: Some rights reserved by Robert Scoble

18. Image: Solid Blogger

19. #15MINPLN No. 6 – Priming the Pump Using an RSS Reader Image: Some rights reserved by avhell

20. Google Reader in Plain English

22. Icon: Some rights reserved by dullhunk

23. #15MINPLN No. 7 – Get Social with your Bookmarking Image: Some rights reserved by Derbeth

26. Diigo V5.0: Collect, Highlight and Remember!

27. http://www.scoop.it/t/opengecko

28. Scoop.it

29. #15MINPLN No. 8–Start A Twitter Account Image: Some rights reserved by Rosaura Ochoa

30. Image: Some rights reserved by fireramsey

33. #15MINPLN No. 9 – Use Twitter To Connect With People Like You Image: Some rights reserved by Phillie Casablanca via an app called TweetWheel

34. RT @basilpuglisi: Best Twitter Tools: TweetDeck, TrueTwit, FLLWRS, 20FT, Formulistshttp://t.co/sQLGd42h #socialmedia previously @dbmei

35. #15MINPLN No. 10 – Set Up A Blog For The Bigger Stuff http://www.blogger.com http://posterous.com/ Image: Some rights reserved by EB05

36. http://www.blogger.com

37. http://posterous.com/

38. 11) Start A Conversation

39. 12) Share Your Multimedia

40. 13) Stitch Your PLN Together Remember ... Examples http://edte.ch/blog/ http://dougbelshaw.com/ http://olliebray.typepad.com/ http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/ http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/ http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/ http://www.thethinkingstick.com/ http://kimcofino.com/

41. 14) ‘Little and often’

42. Context: used for presentations at three international educators’ conferences in 2010 and 2011. The blurb for that presentation read as follows:This presentation demonstrates how educators can develop a productive online presence to help nurture their own professional development. You will be introduced to effective and progressive steps towards building a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Techniques such as social bookmarking, blogging, and using twitter will be explored. All of these allow educators to tap into immensely powerful networks of like-minded educators while building a sustainable and rewarding online portfolio of their key professional interests.It follows a series of blog posts (which inevitably will need updating) that may be accessed (in reverse order) here:http://opengecko.com/tag/15minpln/It is partly comprised of other people’s images which I have credited where possible.In the same spirit of sharing as those whose work I’ve borrowed, this presentation by James Penstone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.