This document discusses the importance of lifelong learning for teachers and outlines ways to engage in ongoing professional development using Web 2.0 tools and personal learning networks. It recommends developing an online presence through blogs, wikis, and social networks to connect with other educators, share resources, and continue learning collaboratively. Maintaining connections and participating actively in online communities allows teachers to stay updated on new developments, reflect on their practice, and learn both individually and collectively.

1. Getting your degree and beyond by Carla Raguseo

5. “ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” Seneca

6. A teacher once told me… “ The day you get your diploma, it will just say: Now you are ready to start learning!” Amez, 1998

7. How will you keep updated? by reflecting on your practice by attending talks, workshops and seminars by reading academic journals or professional literature by attending in-service training sessions and staff meetings By accepting new challenges by …

8. Why is ongoing PD necessary? to keep abreast of the latest developments in our field to update our practice to reflect these changes to learn, unlearn, relearn to reflect, reflect, reflect! to …

9. What are some of the challenges of ongoing PD? Time Access Cost …

10. PD 2.0

11. Web 2.0 Open participatory architecture Two-way communication User-generated content

12. Web 2.0 http://www.go2web20.net/ +3,000 services

13. PD 2.0 The paradigm shift isolated vs. social top-down vs. bottom-up / peer-to-peer hierarchical vs. networked authority-based vs. self-driven formal vs. informal fragmented vs. ongoing centralized vs. distributed push vs. pull taxonomic vs. folksonomic didactic vs. experiential

14. Learning 2.0 “ In this new interactive Web world, I have become a nomadic learner; I graze on knowledge. I find what I need when I need it.” Will Richardson 2006 http://www.edutopia.org/new-face-learning/

15. PLE: Personal Learning Environment “ We know we can publish information, now we need to focus on how we connect to each other, how we build learning contexts” P. Mancini 2007

16. Why a PLE? “ Know-how and know-what is being supplemented with know-where (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).” “ The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.” G. Siemens 2004 http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

17. PLE: Personal Learning Environment

18. PLN: Personal Learning Network

19. Why a PLN? “ I store my knowledge in my friends” http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

20. Social networks make connections visible

21. PD 2.0 – College Page http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1311305654

22. Facebook APrIR’s page http://www.facebook.com/carlaraguseo#!/pages/APrIR/127774673899632

23. De Traductores

24. Collaborative Translation http://collaborative-translation.grouply.com/login/

25. Social networks make connections visible

26. Social networks make connections visible

27. APrIR on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/aprir

28. How are you tweeting? http://klout.com/carlaraguseo

29. Twitter Translator http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10371591-26.html

31. Your contribution matters! http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/2009/10/blogworthy-tweets.html

32. Social networks: connected learning Individual Knowledge vs. Mutual Knowledge : Collective power to bring about change Explicit language is an excellent way of creating mutual knowledge By putting it “out there” we are changing the state of knowledge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU&feature=relmfu Language as a Window into Social Relations by Steven Pinker

33. Online presence http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/2009/10/blogworthy-tweets.html

34. Create your online identity

35. PD 2.0 The beauty of Twitter is that its value is directly proportional to how and how much it is used. ( Jason Bedell ) The beauty of PD 2.0 is that its value is directly proportional to how and how much we participate . There’s no information without participation.

36. You can ask the experts

37. … or enjoy their reflections!

38. … or join live events!

39. Have you ever attended an unconference? Participant-driven Bottom-up design Some styles of facilitation: BarCamp SpeedGeeking PechaKucha TeachMeet Birds of a Feather http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

40. Unconference: #ELTChat

41. Unconference: #ELTChat

42. #ELTChat Poll

43. #ELTChat Transcript

44. #ELTChat Summary

45. PD 2.0 #ELT Chat

46. PD 2.0 #ELT Chat

48. My Learning Environment

49. Google Reader

50. Research 2.0 Google Search Google Alerts

51. Google Alerts Academic Blogs News Videos http://www.google.com.ar/alerts?hl=es

52. Other Search Engines Spezify – Inspired search http://www.spezify.com/ Qwiki - The information experience http://www.qwiki.com/

53. Digital Teaching Portfolios Blogs Personal Website Online CV Reflective reading and writing Sandbox Silvia Tolisano http://www.langwitches.org/portfolio/ Claudia Ceraso http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/ Gabriela Sellart: http://revealties.wordpress.com/ Jennifer Verschoor: http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/ Mariel Amez http://mamez.wordpress.com/ Carla Raguseo http://carlaraguseo.wordpress.com/

54. Digital Teaching Portfolios

55. Wikis Collection of resources, presentations, projects…. http://claudiaceraso.pbworks.com/w/page/15996447/FrontPage Collaborative Spaces http://entramados.pbworks.com/w/page/45249060/FrontPage Digital Teaching Portfolios

56. PD 2.0: Gotta share! http://youtu.be/soAk3F0wX9s via @gsellart

57. Summing Up It is about ownership, developing your online voice and joining professional networks. (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach )

58. 0 Share away!

59. Teachers = Life-long learners You cannot give away what you do not own. (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach ) We can’t teach 2.0 if we don’t learn 2.0 To teach is to learn twice. ~ Joseph Joubert, 1842

60. Carla Raguseo http://carlaraguseo.wordpress.com/ [email_address] @carlaraguseo

61. References and inspiration http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/when-preparing-.html http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/ http://www.infed.org/biblio/learning-social.htm http://jasontbedell.com/professional-development-2-0-the-ebook Special thanks to my PLN!