The document discusses the importance of becoming a lifelong learner and maintaining a personal learning network (PLN). It provides steps for building a PLN, including setting learning goals, choosing tools like Twitter and RSS feeds, and connecting with others both locally and globally. The document emphasizes that a PLN should be deliberately created and maintained by dedicating time each day to participate, contribute, listen and share in order to continue learning and staying relevant in one's career.

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2. Becoming a Learner for Life Deb Hanson Online resources can be found at http://fourcircleslearning.com SWFLN Paraprofessional Day May 10, 2011

3. Today’s goals… Understand importance of lifelong learning Know dispositions of a learner Provide steps for building a PLN Share social media tools for learning

4. “ There is only now.”

5. “ Change is the only constant.”

6. Why become a learner for life? What gets you up in the morning? Were you better today than you were yesterday?

7. “ Motivation is deeply personal.” – Daniel Pink, author of Drive

8. What does it take to become a successful learner for life?

9. Are you… A seeker? Curious? An active participant? A systems thinker? Willing to embrace ambiguity? Willing to get feedback?

10. Establish a “growth mindset” (Carol Dweck)

11. Engage in “deliberate practice” (Anders Ericsson)

12. It’s about changing your performance…

13. “ The battle is within ourselves. What is important is to look at yourself, train yourself, improve yourself.” – Gaku Homma

14. Create and Nuture Your P LN

15. Learning Network Personal

16. Learning Network Professional

17. Learning Network Perpetual

18. A learning network consists of the entire set of resources that you use to answer questions, provide context and illustrate processes. (David Wetzel, 2010)

19. A (PLN) is a group of people you count on to: -guide you in your learning -be your source of advice and resources -make you aware of learning opportunities -share their best practices -point you to answers and support (Silvia Tolisano, 2011)

20. What does your PLN look like ?

21. Physical Virtual Local Global Static Dynamic PLN’s are changing…

22. Deliberately created Network of human, physical, & virtual resources Personal Self-paced Goal oriented Perpetual A PLN is…

23. Steps for Building Your PLN Set your learning goals Choose your tools Connect with key people Lurk, listen, learn , reflect Participate Contribute, share

24. Set your goals…

25. Choose Your PLN Tools

26. Take one step at a time…

28. Finding People Start with people you know personally Find out who they know and respect Connect to your professional idols

33. Hashtags & Twitter Chats #libchat – Wednesdays at 8 PM #libpitch #tlchat #library #libraries #librarians #streetlit, #Goodreads, #readers, #YA, #lib_resources, #infoliteracy, #onlinesafety, #cyberbullying, #digitalcitizenship, #transliteracy, #yalsa, #ALA, #Books, #literature, #bannedbooks, #reading, #Kindle, #ipad, #ebook, #ereader, #SocialMedia

36. Just today…in my Twitter stream…

37. One step always leads to another…

38. More Tools for Connecting, Learning

48. Now you’ve got connections… But, how do you keep up with all the links, ideas, bookmarks, resources they are sharing with you? RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS

51. Blogs Still good sources Lead to other connections Place to begin to contribute Some Library blogs worth reading Tame the Web The Daring Librarian The Shifted Librarian Librarian in Black

54. Sharing

55. Netvibes

56. Hootsuite

58. Connect with… Business people Education community Technology folks Futurists Thinkers Editors, publishers, authors Social Media marketing gurus Step Outside the Library

59. Good stuff to check out…

60. If you feel like you’re getting in too deep…

62. Give your learning 30 minutes a day…

63. When You’re Ready… Begin to contribute Respond to blog posts Share links of articles you’ve found Participate in a Twitter chat Write your own blogs

64. All that said…

65. Lessons Learned… Choose connections wisely Expect a learning curve Choose quality over quantity Dedicate time each day or week

66. Don’t forget to take time to look closely, wonder, think deeply…

67. It’s all about balance

68. And… Building teams Serving your patrons better Getting better at what you do Staying relevant LEARNING for LIFE

69. Open, Connect, Learn, Share and you will be a learner for life …

70. Contact me: [email_address] @DebH2U (Twitter) http://fourcircleslearning.com

71. Resources 15 Tools for Developing a Learning Network, David R. Wetzel http://continuingeducation.suite101.com/article.cfm/15_tools_for_developing_a_learning_network How to Keep Up with Almost Everything by Buffy J. Hamilton http://www.slideshare.net/buffyjhamilton/how-to-keep-up-with-almost-everything