Building your personal learning network: DIY professional development

LearnIT@UD session –2-22-2012

Mathieu Plourde, Educational Technologist, LMS Project Leader IT-Client Support & Services

Disclaimer

• This presentation is not a recipe for success using web 2.0 technologies and social media.

• Your mileage may vary.

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Objective

By the end of this session, you’ll be more deliberate in using social media for

professional development.

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Session materials: http://sites.udel.edu/open/pln/

MAPPING YOUR CURRENT PRACTICES

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How do you learn?

• List your sources of professional information and development.

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How do you store and retrieve information?

• List processes you use to be able to remember or reuse information.

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How do you share information?

• List the people you share information with and the type of information you share.

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Map it up!

• Create a diagram expressing the input and output of your learning and sharing process.

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ME

INPUT (Inbound)

OUTPUT (Outbound)

MY STORAGE

SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB 2.0 PRACTICES

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Social media presence

Do you have a _______ account?

• Yes.

• No.

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Social media usage

Your purpose for using social media is mostly…

• Personal.

• Professional.

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Mobile devices

Do you own a smartphone, tablet, or another web-enabled handheld device?

• Yes.

• No.

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PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS

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“Unlike traditional learning environments, each of our

networks is unique, created and developed to our

personalized learning goals that evolve and grow throughout our lives.”

Richardson & Mancabelli (2011)

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Finding your tribe

http://youtu.be/TrO222AFqKw

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Your PLN to the rescue

http://youtu.be/IZ83x2hUCP4

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Personal learning networks

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Attribution: Alec Couros (courosa) on Flickr.com

MANAGING INCOMING INFORMATION

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How big is the problem?

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“It's not information overload - it's filter failure”

– Clay Shirky

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Don’t be a slave to email!

• Apply the Getting Things Done process to your inbox.

• Use filters, tags, and folders.

• Unsubscribe.

• Move message you’re not required to take action upon to another space.

• Separate email account

• RSS reader

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Finding relevant conversations

• Gurus in your discipline and their entourage

• Books

• Blogs

• Professional associations

• Conference backchannels

• #Hashtags and keywords

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Remember the day the Internet almost died?

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/26/michael.jackson.internet/index.html

Roles in communities

Leaders/ Gurus

Active Members

Lurkers

Outsiders

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Google Alerts

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http://www.google.com/alerts

Google Reader and Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

• Almost every web site generates a RSS feed nowadays…

• You get a notification when there is something new.

• http://www.google.com/reader

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Attribution: jrhode on Flickr.com

Open educational resources

• Openly available learning materials and activities.

• Free to access.

• List of repositories to explore: • http://sites.udel.edu/open/oer-textbook/

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STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION

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Storing and retrieving

I can retrieve relevant information I was exposed to in the last month.

• Yes.

• No.

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Social bookmarking: Diigo

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Can you imagine having 5,000 bookmarks in your browser?

Browser Add-On

http://www.diigo.com

Evernote

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• Personal note-taking application.

• Syncs on multiple devices.

• http://www.evernote.com/

SHARING INFORMATION

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Sharing

Are you afraid of sharing your ideas online?

• Yes.

• No.

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Personal landing page

Do you have a personal landing page, a URL you share to others so they can find out about you and contact you?

• Yes.

• No.

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Draft it up!

• List what you want people to know about your professional self.

• Who’s your audience?

• Where should such a page be hosted?

• What do you expect from connections?

• What should they expect from you?

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Your profile

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Less Intrusive Than a Phone Call…

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Share your identity in

the physical world!

If Information Was Made of Light…

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EXTERNAL INFORMATION

SOURCE RECEIVED INFORMATION

FORWARDED INFORMATION

SHARED INFORMATION

STORED INFORMATION

If Information Was Made of Light…

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EXTERNAL INFORMATION

SOURCE RECEIVED INFORMATION

FORWARDED INFORMATION

SHARED INFORMATION

STORED INFORMATION

CURATION

Conversational Spaces

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PROFESSIONAL PERSONAL

Social Media Spaces

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PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CHANNELS

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1000

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China IndiaFacebook USA

TwitterLinkedIn

Google+

Population or Sign-ups (M)

The network effect

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The role of reciprocity

Reciprocal

• Requires permission from both participants.

Non-reciprocal

• You can follow someone without them following you back.

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Top dog

The role of reciprocity

Reciprocal

• Requires permission from both participants.

Non-reciprocal

• You can follow someone without them following you back.

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My spaces

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My sharing loop

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CONCLUSION

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http://twitter.com/opencontent/statuses/1289142795

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DIY education

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http://youtu.be/thbDZBQk3Ng

ME

INPUT (Inbound)

OUTPUT (Outbound)

MY STORAGE

Add something you learned about to your diagram!

Thank You!

• Questions, comments, follow-up?

• Mathieu Plourde Educational Technologist, LMS Project Leader IT Client Support & Services mathieu@udel.edu 302-831-4060

• http://mathplourde.wordpress.com/about/

• Session materials: http://sites.udel.edu/open/pln/

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