building and growing your professional learning network-naomi harm
DESCRIPTION
Collaborative social networks allow educators to create online communities that support their personal and professional learning. Whether your personal learning network is overflowing or just starting to grow, this session will help you to refine your network to best suit your learning needs. Naomi will lead you to interesting people who advocate for the effective use of technology to improve teaching and learning, while supporting a 21st century skills teaching and learning environment. We will discuss tips and tricks to leverage the potential of these networks and provide resources to help attendees set up their own networks. Participants will gain hands-on experience using social communication and collaboration media tools such as Adobe Connect, Twitter, Intel® Engage, Educators PLN Ning, back channel chats, and social bookmarking tools to build professional learning and social networks to lead effectively in your school district or educational organization.TRANSCRIPT
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Building and Growing Your Own
Professional Learning Network
School Net South Africa ICT Conference
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Thanks to my PLN’s!
* Intel Engage
* Educator’s
PLN Ning
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How do social networks make up
personal/professional learning
networks?
http://weblogg-ed.com
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PLN’s can be........
*Families, friends,
colleagues and
acquaintances
*Reference books
and textbooks we refer
to in the past
or present
*The television and
radio stations we tune
into on a regular basis
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PLN’s can also be....
*Professional and
personal periodicals
we subscribe to
*Connecting with
people and
information through
the digital realm
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Collective Intelligence
*Shared voice of know-
ledge & collaborative
expertise
*Interests & themes
*Common goal to
assist & empower the
community
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Continuous Share Session
Text
*Tried & true best practices
*Lesson plan/thematic
unit development
*Current events and
technology trends
*New opportunities
with new expertise
*Finding answers
and solutions
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Three types of Known PLN’s
*Personally
maintained
synchronous
connections.
*Personally and
socially maintained
semi-synchronous
connections.
*Dynamically
maintained
asynchronous
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Personally maintained
synchronous connections *Traditional method of
networking: go to
for answers, questions,
solve problems, and
accomplish goals.
*PLN of tools to enhance
above method: chat,
instant messaging and
text messaging,
teleconferencing (Skype
or Livestream), or Twitter
http://www.livestream.com/inteleducation
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TWITTER Challenge
http://twitter.com
*Twitter For
Teachers
*Twitter Tools
Challenge
*Tweet Deck or
Twirl
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Replicated PLN Study
Results: 4 Delicious, 3 Google Forms/Docs, 3
Google Reader, 3 Ning, 2 Diigo, 2 Facebook
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Times are a changing.
http://www.go2web20.net
*Information
communication
technologies (ICT)
*Repositories of
open source
applications
*Freed content
from print to an
electronic means
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Times are a changing.
*Giving voice to
ideas to the
people
*Reshaping of
information
experiences to
meet our needs
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Blogs, Wikis, and Nings -
Oh My
*A place to create your own
social network & join and
participate in other networks.
*Upload and share digital
content made public and or
private to your community
members.
*Threaded discussion forums,
applications, and blogs
Host online events, webinars
and trainings.
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Importance of PLN’s
www.nibco.com
*Harnessing new
technologies to
create and grow
your own PLN’s.
*Imperative for
educators to stay
connected.
*Introducing a
changing world to
our students.
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Personally & socially maintained
semi-synchronous connections
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Personally & socially maintained
semi-synchronous connections
*Semi-synchronous refers to the idea that
collaboration doesn’t have to happen in real time.
*Conversations that are not exactly conversations.
*Questions directed toward a single friend, or a
community of people, based on interests and
expertise, are in a position to help you do your job.
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Personally & socially maintained
semi-synchronous connections
http://engage.intel.com
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Twitter PLN Community
Twitter: nharm
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ESSENTIAL Tool ~ RSS
http://www.commoncraft.com
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RSS Readers
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Cultivate Your PLN!
To flourish & sustain:
*Communication
*Collaboration
*Global Literacy
*Authentic & Self -
Directed Learning
*And to....Cultivate
Professional & Personal
Life Long Learning.
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What is your favorite PLN tool now?
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Contact Information
Naomi Harm
Innovative Educator Consulting
National Intel Senior Trainer
Keynote Presenter
Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://blog.innovativeeducator.us
Skype: InnovativeEducator
Twitter: nharm
BoxNet: http://box.net/naomiharm
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