Bonsai Networking: pruning your professional learning network (VU Seminar)
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This document discusses pruning and growing a professional learning network (PLN). It begins by introducing Joyce Seitzinger and her role in e-learning. She then shares her extensive social media presence and experience organizing online events. The next section discusses a networked practice program she led. The rest of the document provides advice on establishing a PLN, including maintaining connections through various tools, curating an online identity and portfolio, and regularly reviewing one's areas of interest to prune and grow their learning network.
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- 1. BONSAI NETWORKING Pruning your professional learning network Joyce Seitzinger Victoria University Image cc license by user rofi https://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/5194829490/
- 4. LINK TO DIGITAL HANDOUT http://tiny.cc/bonsaipln
- 6. MY E-LEARNING ROLE Moodle Admin Course Builder Learning Designer Teacher eLearning policy & strategy Trainer Moodle Helpdesk Graphic Designer
- 7. SOCIAL MEDIA SAVED MY LIFE…
- 8. MY STATS • On Twitter since Nov 2007 • Followers - 8700 • Tweets - 34557 • Organiser PLE Conference 2012 • Blogger – 16K downloads • Instagram – 1043 pics • Linkedin – 500+ connections • Slideshare most viewed: 26555 views • Most shared open educational resource: Moodle Tool Guide • Flickr – 5989 photos • Klout – 70 • Scoopit – 5 boards • Dropbox & Google Drive/Docs • And counting….
- 9. NETPRAX Deakin University, Faculty of Health March 2013 - Jun 2014 100 participants Embedding networked practice for personal learning, teaching practice and research practice iPad based Mozilla Open Badges Yammer/Facebook/Blog Twitter.com/netprax
- 12. People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of our lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit – even classrooms, for example. I take an approach that urges me to consider the significant overlap across these boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel through different and even contradictory contexts and activities. KRIS GUTIERREZ
- 13. JOI ITO “I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.” @joi
- 15. 15 CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B
- 16. 16 CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B
- 18. DIGITAL VISITOR / DIGITAL RESIDENT MAPPING Personal Institutional ResidentVisitor
- 22. http://rockcheetah.com/blog/technology/web-2-0-3-0-impact-on-hospitality- technology-hftp-hitec/
- 25. cc licensed flickr photo by courosa: http://flickr.com/photos/courosa/ 344832659/
- 26. cc licensed flickr photo by courosa: http://flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/ INSERT ANY PROFESSIONAL
- 27. REASONS TO START A PLN • Act as a filter for information overload • Mining information on the web • Establish yourself as a node in the network • Participate in communities/tribes • Break through silos
- 28. ABOUT THE TOOLS
- 29. ABOUT THE PEOPLE cc licensed flickr photo by shareski: http://flickr.com/photos/shareski/
- 30. Everyone has the same building blocks… …but how do you put them together?
- 31. Image cc license by user rofi https://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/5194829490/ Community / Hub Information Streams Portfolio Curation
- 32. THE AIM OF BONSAI “to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-size trees.” “The purposes of bonsai are primarily contemplation (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the grower)” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai
- 33. • Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources? • What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections? • Do you share collections with others? Why or why not? • Who is your audience/ community? • Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics? • Frequency • Which platforms do you use for your information streams? • What are advantages/ disadvantages? • Can they act as ‘feeders’? • Who are you connected to? • Which tools do you use to communicate with your community? • Are the tools public or private? • What are advantages or not? • Use a professional avatar or personal? Both? • How much do you share about you? • How easily are you found? Conversation /Hub Information Streams CurationPortfolio You
- 40. Many students already have confident social identities online, but developing identities as learners, writers, scholars, citizens — these are important tasks as part of higher education. - Catherine Cronin http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and- identities/ ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
- 41. If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face… [they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting the negotiation of productive identities through landscapes of practice.” - Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010) ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
- 42. • Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources? • What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections? • Do you share collections with others? Why or why not? • Who is your audience/ community? • Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics? • Frequency • Which platforms do you use for your information streams? • What are advantages/ disadvantages? • Can they act as ‘feeders’? • Who are you connected to? • Which tools do you use to communicate with your community? • Are the tools public or private? • What are advantages or not? • Use a professional avatar or personal? Both? • How much do you share about you? • How easily are you found? Conversation /Hub Information Streams CurationPortfolio You
- 43. cc licensed flickr photo by Will Lion: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/
- 44. Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing The social curation process Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity expression or community participation.” Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference Proceedings
- 45. Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing The social curation process
- 55. • Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources? • What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections? • Do you share collections with others? Why or why not? • Who is your audience/ community? • Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics? • Frequency • Which platforms do you use for your information streams? • What are advantages/ disadvantages? • Can they act as ‘feeders’? • Who are you connected to? • Which tools do you use to communicate with your community? • Are the tools public or private? • What are advantages or not? • Use a professional avatar or personal? Both? • How much do you share about you? • How easily are you found? Conversation /Hub Information Streams CurationPortfolio You
- 56. MAKER CULTURE • Here Comes Everybody • Making is Connecting
- 57. START EASY - SLIDES • www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth • www.slideshare.net/gconole • www.slideshare.net/courosa
- 58. Pruning your roots Image cc license https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisguise/4593071254/
- 59. ROOTS ARE YOUR INTERESTS • What topics have yourinterest? • Will your PLN be personal, professional or both? • Research, teaching, personal learning or all of the above?
- 60. PRUNE ROOTS & BRANCHES REPEATEDLY • Review: do these topics still have my interest? • Have new topics or groups come into my PLN? • Have new tools emerged? Should I stop using some tools? • Talk with other practitioners… “Listen to the tree, it tells you where it wants to go.” (Anon.)