Darim Online webinar, Social Media for Social Learning, facilitated by Caren Levine, Director of the Learning Network, February 22, 2011

1. Social Media for Social Learning: Developing Your Professional Learning Network Caren Levine caren@darimonline.org twitter: DarimOnline, jlearn20

2. How do you define a PLN?

3. A few definitions… (it’s all personal…) A PLN is a system for lifelong learning - Judith Epcke and Scott Meech http://bit.ly/fAgI9T a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience. - Daniel R. Tobin http://bit.ly/fZkDXl Personal Learning Networks consist of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a Personal Learning Environment . An important part of this concept is the theory of connectivism developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes . Learners create connections and develop a network that contributes to their professional development and knowledge. [1] The learner does not have to know these people personally or ever meet them in person. [2] - Wikipedia http://bit.ly/ebSzjG

5. Credit: Alec Couros

6. Credit: Alec Couros

8. David Warlick: http://bit.ly/i30DnO One Man’s Ecosystem

10. Who’s In YOUR PLN? What’s YOUR ecosystem?

12. http://www.delicious.com/jlearn2.0 Putting the Social in Bookmarking Where it Gets Interesting…

13. You Are Not Alone Create a Network

14. Tag – You’re It! Subscribe to Tags (key words) Follow “key words” on delicious

15. Home Delivery Information Delivered to Your Doorstep Feed – notification of updated content

16. Getting Organized: Aggregators and RSS Feeds Google Alerts

18. http://bit.ly/falvud

20. ## Hashtags ##

21. Lists: Create and Follow

26. Strategies: Time http://bit.ly/fJHqSt Credit: Aliza Sherman

28. You Rung? What’s Your Style?

30. What are YOUR next steps? What would YOU like to try? What’s YOUR PLaN?