Managing Your Own Learning
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If you are not actively keeping up with your own learning and professional development, you are falling behind. Learn how to build a Personal Learning Network (PLN) to provide you with learning from leaders, experts and colleagues around the world.
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Managing Your Own Learning
- 1. Managing Your Own Learning Bob Bertsch & Sonja Fuchs Web Technology Specialists NDSU Ag Communication
- 2. Who’s Managing Your Learning • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW7aB OPYHx0
- 3. Formal education is a walk through the zoo, informal learning is a walk through the savannah. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes http://www.flickr.com/photos/godutchbaby/4432480199/
- 4. Formal education is knowing a tomato is a fruit, informal learning is not using it in fruit salad. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaspantry/3554762608/
- 5. Formal education is bricks and mortar, social learning is clouds and streams http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/
- 6. Formal education is the playbook, social learning is the huddle http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/55214370/
- 7. What is a learning network? a deliberately formed network of people and resources capable of guiding our independent learning goals and professional development needs.
- 8. Content Commentary Research Experience Conversation Experts Colleagues Friends Filter Filter Filter Filter Filter Creation Curation Sharing YOU Adapted from “Creating a Personal Learning Network,” http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387
- 9. My learning network? Content Social Curation Zite Twitter Diigo Flipboard Facebook Pinterest Google Google + Scoop.it Reader Google Alerts
- 10. Google Alerts Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results -- such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs -- that match your search term. You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web. For example, people use Google Alerts to: • find out what is being said about their company or product. • monitor a developing news story. • keep up to date on a competitor or industry. • get the latest news on a celebrity or sports team. • find out what's being said about themselves.
- 11. Google Alerts • http://www.google.com/alerts • Delivered by email (daily, weekly, or as found) • RSS available for Google accounts
- 12. Content • • • • • • YOU laptop - http://www.flickr.com/photos/computermonger/, smartphone - http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewcf/, ipad - http://www.flickr.com/photos/leondel/.
- 13. What are RSS feeds? • • • • •
- 14. Blogs Feed-enabled sites Feed Reader Google alerts Utilities Podcasts
- 15. News RSS feeds
- 16. Blog RSS Blogs typically offer feeds of their posts, and sometimes comments. The feed may contain the full post, or just an excerpt.
- 18. Power/value of network • Exposure to incidental information – You don’t know what you need to know • Asking questions • Connectedness • Awareness of trends • What are others doing / talking about
- 19. • Exposure to incidental information – You don’t know what you need to know
- 21. • Connectedness
- 22. • Awareness of trends
- 23. • What are others doing / talking about
- 24. How to find people • Start with who you already know • Connections: – Who follows you? – Who do they follow? – Who follows them? – Who do they retweet? – Look at lists
- 25. • Start with who you already know
- 26. • Find people to follow?
- 27. • Who do they follow?
- 28. • Who follows them?
- 29. • Who do they retweet and repin
- 30. Outside the network • Speakers at conferences • Authors • Business cards • Email signatures
- 31. Find by topic • Hashtags (e.g., #netlit, #mfln) • Search • Websites • Subject matter experts
- 32. Search for Topics on Twitter • Go to twitter.com or search.twitter.com • Type a topic in the search bar • Use the “Tweets” tab for people who have tweeted the term
- 33. Search for Topics on Twitter Check for better search results by using a hashtag. • Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context to tweets. • You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. • Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.
- 34. Your activity matters • If you are active in online networks, and engage with others, interesting people will find you. • For example: – @JerryBuchko and Military Families Learning Network and Network Literacy
- 35. Harold Jarche – www.jarche.com
- 36. Connect With Us: • Twitter - twitter.com/ndbob - twitter.com/SonjaNDSU • Facebook - facebook.com/NDSUAgCommWebServices • Email – robert.bertsch@ndsu.edu - sonja.fuchs@ndsu.edu