3. PLN-Professional Learning
Network
• Any group of people sharing the same
profession or interests that share ideas
• This conference is an example of a PLN
• Your department is an example of a PLN
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4. PLN-Professional Learning
Network
•The Five Apostasies
• We cannot solve our problems with
the same thinking we used when we
created them.
Albert Einstein Read more at
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5. PLN also Stands For
Personal Learning Network
Teachers no longer have to wait for a system to identify
or solve their problems; they are empowered to do it
for themselves.
Teachers in geographically isolated places are no longer
intellectually or professionally isolated.
Teachers can have their professional questions and
problems solved now, not at a predefined space and
time.
We can harness the collective intelligence rather than be
restricted by our prescriptive job titles.
Educations systems can crowd source content,
knowledge and ideas.
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6. Frictionless Medium
• The internet allows us to form PLNs with
more people and much more easily
• “A frictionless medium for communication”-
Keep the conference energy alive
• Keep the intellectual conversation alive
• Why email when you can text/twitter?
• (One to One vs. One to Many)
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7. The Main Aim of Knowledge Management (KM)
Connect people to quality knowledge as well as
people to people in order to increase
understanding.
How learning content is used and distributed by
learners might be more important than how it is
designed
All this is possible as a result of the rapid
development of Web 2.0 concepts
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8. The stages of PLN membership
1. Lurking/Skimming
2. Asking for help/opinions
3. Giving help/opinions
4. Starting something (group/discussion)
5. Joining every social network possible
6. Becoming overwhelmed and dropping the
whole thing
7. Finding the right balance
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13. Who I Listen To
http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/117037943
The PLN on Wikispaces
http://jennystithpln.wikispaces.com/Who+I+Listen+
14. Where I Go for Resources
http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/117037943
The PLN on Wikispaces
http://paulaplnspace.wikispaces.com/Where+I+G
15. Where I Go to Socialize
http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/117037943
The PLN on Wikispaces
http://jenbyrdpln.wikispaces.com/Where+I+G
o+To+Talk+and+Learn+with+Other+Educato
rs
16. Where I Go to Socialize
or EVEN BETTER
Make Your Own
http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/117037943
The PLN on Wikispaces
http://www.edmodo.com/
17. Twitter
• The Human Search Engine/Your Personal
Newsfeed http://www.twitter.com
• Embed Twitter into Wikispaces
• http://vimeo.com/5912821
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18. Who to Follow?
• The people in this room
• Professional Organizations
• https://twitter.com/NCTM
• https://twitter.com/ncte
• https://twitter.com/NSTA
• https://twitter.com/NCSSNetwork
• https://twitter.com/NAEA
• http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/2255
FrontPage
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19. Who I Listen To
http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/117037943
The PLN on Wikispaces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_de
Embed RSS
feeds into
your
Wikispaces
20. Where I Go for Resources
http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/117037943
The PLN on Wikispaces
http://paulaplnspace.wikispaces.com/Where+I+G
21. Social Bookmarking
• Diigo/Delicious
– Diigo has a few more features (groups, sticky notes)
– Accounts can be synced so you really are using both
• Use tags to classify
– Your school, district, department, class could set up a tag
to collect all of your finds
• Can install a toolbar to make it easy to maintain and
share a single list of bookmarks from any computer
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The PLN on Wikispaces
22. Social Bookmarking on your PLN
• Adding your diigo bookmarks to your wiki
• http://www.screenr.com/EyO7
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The PLN on Wikispaces
23. Nings in your PLN
• http://molecularforces.ning.com
• http://www.clasroom20.com
• http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/
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The PLN on Wikispaces
24. Many Other Ways to Connect…
• www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_detailpage&v=CGyjJN478acGo
ogle/Yahoo Groups
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edmodo in your PLN
The PLN on Wikispaces
25. I have always relied on the
kindness of strangers
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26. A New Set of Beliefs for a
Teacher’s Professional Growth
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27. PLN
Passionate Learning Network
• Now I can ask my network and get
recommendations from other
professionals.
• This makes it easier for me to find great
resources.
• The cloud also makes sharing easier.
• Make the “InterWebs” human again
• I am not alone
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Editor's Notes
Teachers are too boxed in their classrooms, too busy grading and setting up labs to do much idle chit chat. However think of the really great moments you have had at a conference or meeting with colleages. Often it is hard to carry over that excitement back into your day to day routine of isolation.
Teachers are too boxed in their classrooms, too busy grading and setting up labs to do much idle chit chat. However think of the really great moments you have had at a conference or meeting with colleages. Often it is hard to carry over that excitement back into your day to day routine of isolation.
Learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom. Informal learning describes the growth that we undertake in our day to day interactions. Just in time learning ask for help on something you need now. Social Learning-we learn by modeling. What if there is no one to model? Connect with other practitioners (not “outside experts”) but still outside.
Embedding bookmarks Edit 0 0 9…
Embedding bookmarks is done through "Groups."
Create and Name group
Add bookmarks
Go to "My Groups" and select the group bookmarks
Go to "Group Widgets"
Click on Group Linkroll
Type in tag(s) you want to retrieve.
DEMO:
Go to your wiki or blog.
Create a new page or open an existing page to edit.
Look for "widget" or "html" code in the edit menu.
Paste code you captured from Diigo in the special area.
Click "save" and close out of the screen you are on.
Your bookmarks should appear on the page.
I found these sites by chance and sifting through search engine queries Then I had to spend time evaluating each site
I found these sites by chance and sifting through search engine queries Then I had to spend time evaluating each site
If you have a favorite lesson, but never wanted to go through the trouble of setting up a website to share your opinions, knowledge, experience, and lesson plans now you can jump into active online communities and get tons of positive feedback!
Even wonderful Google is in it for the money. Steve Nash and Stacey Baker? They are just great teachers who I have learned to trust and gain inspiration from. I would never have met them without Twitter. Nuf said!
