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Spicing Up Your Professional Learning Network
Heather Hurley Instructional Technology CoordinatorArlington Traditional School
Presentation Adapted from Powering Up Your Professional Learning Network by Jen Dorman jendorman@discovery.com http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/
Ask Yourself…
van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
How many Educators can I collaborate with
on a daily basis?
What is a PLN?
Personal Learning NetworkProfessional Learning Network
"Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to
•set their own learning goals •manage their learning; managing both content and process •communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.
A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems: As such it may be a desktop application, or composed of one or more web-based services."
van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
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Stages of PLN Adoption
• Stage 1 Immersion: – Immerse yourself into networks.
– Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to.
– Collaboration and connections take off.
Stages of PLN Adoption
• Stage 2 Evaluation: – Evaluate your networks and start to focus in
on which networks you really want to focus your time on.
– You begin feeling a sense of urgency and try to figure out a way to “Know it all.”
Stages of PLN Adoption
• Stage 3 Know it all: – Find that you are spending many hours trying
to learn everything you can.
– Realize there is much you do not know and feel like you can’t disconnect.
– This usually comes with spending every waking minutes trying to be connected to the point that you give up sleep and contact with others around you to be connected to your networks of knowledge.
Stages of PLN Adoption
• Stage 4 Perspective: – Start to put your life into perspective. – Usually comes when you are forced to leave
the network for awhile and spend time with family and friends who are not connected.
Stages of PLN Adoption
• Stage 5 Balance: – Try and find that balance between learning and
living.
– Understanding that you can not know it all, and begin to understand that you can rely on your network to learn and store knowledge for you.
– A sense of calm begins as you understand that you can learn when you need to learn and you do not need to know it all right now.
What do you know?
• Take an index card• 5 minutes to write
What do you know about PLN’s?
andHow does technology fit?
NSDC Standard – Collaboration Skills
The StandardStaff development that improves the learning of all students provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate.
“While collaborative, face-to-face professional learning and work are the hallmarks of a school culture that assumes collective responsibility for student learning, technology will increasingly provide a means for new and different forms of collaboration. Technology will enable teachers and administrators from around the country and world to share ideas, strategies, and tools with one another in ways that will dramatically increase the number of collaborative links among educators. But electronic forms of such work will also present teachers and administrators with new challenges whose outlines are only becoming dimly visible as larger numbers of educators begin to use these processes to strengthen their teaching and leadership practices.”
http://www.nsdc.org/standards/collaborationskills.cfm
Spicing Up Your Network
Professional Networks
http://community.discoveryeducation.com
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/
LinkedIn Groups:•NSDC•ISTE•Discovery Educator Network•Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group
http://www.linkedin.com/
Groups
•NSDC•Discovery Educator Network•ISTE•Second Life for Educators•Using Wikis in Education
http://www.facebook.com/
Ninghttp://www.classroom20.com/http://teachingeverystudent.ning.com/http://education.ning.com/http://www.neccning.org/
RSS Aggregators & Internet Start Pages
This symbol is your friend
http://www.iste.org/source/Orders/isteProductDetail.cfm?product_code=newrss
Finding Feeds• Blogs, podcasts, news sites,
and many other media services syndicate their content through RSS feeds
RSS – Really Simple Syndication
Customized News Feeds
http://news.google.com/
http://www.google.com/reader/
Google Reader
Podcasts
iTunes and Podcasts
iTunesU
Microblogs
Mr. Tweet looks through your extended network to help you build effective relationships on Twitter.
Which are my followers I should be following in return? Who are the influential people I should be following?
http://mrtweet.net/
Twitter Searchhttp://search.twitter.com/
If You Can Tweet Then You Can Plurk
http://www.plurk.com/
Managing Multiple Accounts
Ping.fm - http://ping.fm/
AtomKeep - http://www.atomkeep.com/
Desktop Applications
Twhirl - http://www.twhirl.org/
TweetDeck - http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
What Can You Say in
140 Characters?
Social Bookmarking and Annotating
Social Bookmarking - Delicious
http://delicious.com/
Diigo Groups
Blogging
Popular Blogging Sites
• Blogger– http://www.blogger.com/
• WordPress– http://wordpress.org/
• EduBlogs– http://edublogs.org/
• Windows Live Spaces – http://spaces.live.com/
http://www.nsdc.org/learningBlog/index.cfm
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/heather_hurley
Collaborative Live Blogging with Integrated Media
http://www.coveritlive.com/
Wikis
Education-Friendly Wikis
• Wikispaces– http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
• PB Works– http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki
http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/
http://techatats.wikispaces.com/
Video
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aps--smart-connection-day
http://www.ustream.tv/
http://www.livestream.com/barretttigertv
http://www.livestream.com/
Interactive Publishing - Photos
Presentationshttp://www.slideshare.net/
Online Presentation Tools
• Prezi– http://prezi.com/
• Zoho Show– http://show.zoho.com/
• Spresent– http://www.spresent.com/
• 280 Slides– http://280slides.com/
– • Google Presentations
– http://docs.google.com/
• Voicethread– http://voicethread.com/
Photo Sharing
• http://flickr.com/
• http://picasa.google.com/
• http://www.shutterfly.com/
• http://www.snapfish.com/
Flickr
Picture Walk
• Choose a picture
• How does this picture describe your work?
• Find someone else with the same picture
• Discuss with your partner
• Be prepared to show and tell
Online Collaboration
Mind Mapping
http://bubbl.us/http://www.gliffy.com/
http://www.mywebspiration.com/
http://groups.google.com/
Collaborative File Storage
• http://drop.io/
• http://box.net/
• http://www.getdropbox.com/
Online Conference/Meetings
http://wiki.classroom20.com/live%20conversations
VOIP / Text / Videohttp://skype.com/
http://www.oovoo.com/
PLN on the MUVE
DEN in Second Life
• DEN in Second Life SLURL– http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/75/100/22
• DEN Second Life Blog– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/secondlife
Peyton Merlin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/
ISTE EventsISTE in SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/93/83/30
ISTE in SL Wikispacehttp://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net/
PLN Implementation Plan•Stage 1 Immersion:
–Immerse yourself into networks.
–Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to.
–Collaboration and connections take off.
PLN Action Plan Steps
1. What Tools Will You Use?
2. Timeline3. Resources4. Potential Barriers
Tools• Mind mapping• Google Docs• Zoho Tools• Collaborative
File Sharing• Attend a
Webinar• Use Skype or
ooVoo• Join Second Life
• Podcasts• Delicious• Diigo • Set up or join a
blog• Set up or join a wiki• Use Slideshare• You Tube or other
video sites• Flickr or other
photo sharing sites
• Discovery Educator Network
• PBS Teachers• Linked In• Facebook • Ning• Google Tools• Twitter• Plurk
Join My Network• Blogs
– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/heather_hurley
– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/virginia
• Wiki– http://techatats.wikispaces.com
• Twitter – http://twitter.com/h270
• Plurk – http://www.plurk.com/user/h270
• Diigo– http://www.diigo.com/profile/hsquared70
• Email– heather_hurley@apsva.us