your personal learning network cc day t2 09
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A presentation I ran for teachers to get them on the journey of configuring their own personal learning network.TRANSCRIPT
How to configureHow to configure
Stuart Hasic June 2009
Your Professional or Your Professional or Personal Learning Personal Learning NetworkNetwork......
The Typical Teacher’s Network
Image by Dr Alec Couros – University of Regina
The Typical Teacher’s Network
Image by Dr Alec Couros – University of Regina
Humans: We Think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo
The Networked Teacher
Image by Dr Alec Couros – University of Regina
A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a dynamic, interactive collection of resources that extends beyond the classroom. The elements of the typical teacher network are not replaced in this new model, but rather are complimented by myriad of tools that support a bi-directional exchange of information and ideas.
“Lifelong Learning is NOT a
9 to 5 job”.
- Stu Hasic, June 2009
What’s Facebook?
Image by Dr Alec Couros – University of Regina
Tools that Help Develop your PLN
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School
What’sTwitter?
What’s Twitter?
One of the most-misunderstood and quickly dismissed of the social networking tools available
I relate to it as a “perpetual chat session”
You choose who you want to “follow” and others follow you
What you type is seen by all your followers. You see everything typed by the people you follow
Restricted to 140 characters, Twitter is no place for the verbose
What’s Twitter? After signing up for Twitter, first
thing to do is to find people to follow – find twenty to start off
Make sure you include people you actually know – this is one medium for your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
You will start to see what they say. You can reply to them.
As you contribute, people will start to follow you, adding YOU to THEIR PLN
Give Twitter a chance before deciding to dismiss it
Social Bookmarking and your PLN
If you are still saving your Bookmarks orFavourites within your browser, you are wastingthem. If you are relying on finding the sitesyou need yourself, then you are wasting time.
Sign up to one or more ofthese Social Bookmarking sites and start tagging the sites you find.
Find other users tagging the sites you are interested in and setup an RSS reader to their account. Others can then work for you!
How to Get Information to Find You
In a world of information overload, you need to get information you are interested in tofind you.
Google Alerts will email you links whenever something new appears on the internet thatmatches your particular search requests
Putting your PLN all Together
Once you’ve made your accounts and found some like-minded people for your PLN, you need a single easy place to get access to it all
Try one of these: PageFlakes Netvibes iGoogle
All are customisable multi-faceted personal home pages made just for you
Take a look – http://igoogle.com
Tomorrow’s Connected Teacher
Image by Wendy Drexler – The Networked Student
Questions?
Thank you for your attention