building your online personal learning network

Creating Your Online

Learning Network

Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University

Twitter: @aafromaa

John Dorner, North Carolina State University

Twitter: @jdorner

NACAA July 2012

Brought to you by the eXtension

Network Literacy CoP www.extension.org/network_literacy

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What Is a LN?

LNs are deliberately formed networks of people and resources capable of guiding our independent learning goals and professional development needs.

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LN Resources

CONVERSATIONS

Twitter Facebook

Blog Comments LinkedIn

Google Plus

CONTENT

Blogs

Videos

Slideshows

Bookmarks

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Using Twitter For Your LN

What Is Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging tool that allows users to share 140 character bursts of information (tweets).

How are people using Twitter? News source Conversation Conference tracker Marketing tool Knowledge network Text Messaging

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Identify people

Colleagues

Friends & Family

Authors

Bloggers

Speakers

Magazines

News Sites

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Search for them

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Search your address book

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Follow people that are retweeted

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Follow Followers

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Lists you are on

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Search for subjects

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Search using #hashtags

#hashtags

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community

driven

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Apps

Tweetdeck

Hootsuite

Twitter App -

iPhone/Android

Flipboard -

iPhone/iPad

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Next Steps

CREATE account if you don't have one

FIND your real life friends/colleagues

SEARCH for others with similar interests

FOLLOW others

SHARE what you discover and learn

http://www.extension.org/people/colleagues/socialnetworks

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Creating Your Online

Learning Network

Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University

Twitter: @aafromaa

aadrian@extension.org

http://www.extension.org/people/aadrian

John Dorner, North Carolina State University

Twitter: @jdorner

jdorner@ncsu.edu

http://www.extension.org/people/jdorner

Abstract

Learning is an individual self-directed process, but learning does not have to be a

solitary process. Often it is best done with others. Fortunately, there are many tools you

can use to help you continue your learning. Which tools are the right ones for you?

Who do you go to to ask your questions? How do you find these people?

Many of today’s social media sites make it easy to find the right people and the right

information and to share what you know. Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Delicious, Diigo,

Pinterest, Scoop.It, Slideshare, YouTube, Vimeo, TeacherTube, eXtension Learn,

Facebook, StackExchange, WikiPedia, Google Alerts, RSS feeds, and podcasts are

just some of the places you can share and learn.

In this session, we’ll discuss which tool to use for which job and how to find the

information that you want.