building your online personal learning network
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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. Presented by Anne Adrian and John DornerTRANSCRIPT
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
http://www.extension.org/people/aadrian
John Dorner, North Carolina State University
Twitter: @jdorner
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.