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

http://www.google.com/ig

iGoogle

Podcasts

iTunes and Podcasts

iTunesU

http://www.gcast.com/

Microblogs

http://twitter.com/

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/

Social Annotation - Diigo

http://diigo.com/

http://tinyurl.com/6zosub

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.youtube.com/

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://www.zoho.com/

http://docs.google.com/

http://groups.google.com/

http://sites.google.com/

Collaborative File Storage

• http://drop.io/

• http://box.net/

• http://www.getdropbox.com/

Online Conference/Meetings

http://snipurl.com/denwebinars

http://edtechtalk.com/

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