Putting it Together, Personal Learning Networks

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Putting it Together: Personal Learning Networks Seth Bowers Tech Director CCSD62, Des Plaines Consultant, November Learning [email protected] Twitter.com/sethbowers
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Putting it Together: Personal Learning NetworksSeth BowersTech Director CCSD62, Des PlainesConsultant, November [email protected]/sethbowersPersonal InfoNovember learning109 > 62PLNs Work for me and a lot of other technology minded educators.Today I want to talk about building your own pers lern net using certain web tools.RSS, Web2.0 Twitter, Diigo, Feed Aggregators| Web2.0 Indicates that these should be easy to use!1Why

200620052004Students and increasingly staff live digitallyIncreasingly information is PRIMARILY DigitalFacebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, blogs, chat, chat roulette, txt, Ning----- Meeting Notes (10/12/11 15:13) -----In May of this year, Google hit 1 Billion unique visitors, in May!Firt website to do so.2

History - Growth3That's a popular 5 year old!

200 million tweets a day1 billion every five days4Tweets v Taipei 101

Taipei, TaiwanGO TO: TwitterfallHASH TAGS: Edtech, PLN, CHAT Edchat, Lib or Librarychat### Talk about POUND SIGN Show anatomy of a TWEET or TWITTER5Who is in your network?

Regarding Twitter If I can convince you to use it, or when you do, ALSO FOLLOW FUN PEOPLE!

Traditionally: People WE KNOW PHYSICALLY! Personal Learning Communities and circles of support for: Professional Lives, Personal Lives, Geek Lives (Music, Guitars, Bad Carpentry)DIIGO!

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Digest ofInternetInformation,Groups, andOther StuffDiigo is two tools in one:A research and collaborative research toolA Knowledge sharing community and social content or bookmarking site----- Meeting Notes (10/12/11 15:33) -----Go to Diigo7What does RSS mean?

ReallySimpleSyndication

Also: Rich Site SummarySyndication means to Publish or broadcast content simultaneously to a number of newspapers, television or radio stations, et ceteraWhat do you do with publications? YOU SUBSCRIBE.Easy way for publishers to publish & subscribers to subscribe

Alt-Tab to Firefox & do an image search for RSS THEN FOLLOW THE CARD!8RSS An overview

Technoratis current count of blogs is??????

9Feeds and AggregatorsFeedsTimeNYTChicago TribuneWill RichardsonBob SprankleFoo FightersPrairie Home CompanionBreaking Bad

AggregatorsGoogle Readerwww.google.com/reader/Bloglineswww.bloglines.com/Pageflakeswww.pageflakes.com/Netvibeswww.netvibes.com/Newsgatorwww.newsgator.com/Live BookmarksPublications are called FEEDS10And FeedsAnd FeedsMathtrain.tvCool Cat Teacher BlogLearning is MessyNovember Learning NewsCBSSportsPitchforkWiredMaximum PCSlateAnd FeedsLeadertalkEngadgetRock, Paper, ShotgunColbert Report VideosThe OnionFox NewsPajibaCNNTwitter/windycitynewsAnd if you know about these, great. You can continue to go to them.

An AGGREGATOR checks all the sites you care about, or at least add to the aggregator, usually once an hour or so

Go to Google reader.11RSS powers Google News

RSS in your browserLive feedsFirefoxChromeYou can subscribe to any RSS feed right from your browser. WillRichardson.com13Conquer your fear!You can create that account, You can remember your password, and gosh darnit people will you!

Checkusernames.comKnowem.com14