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Build Up your PLNIsabelle Jones, The Radclyffe School
Twitter: @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
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Aims
• Reflect on the CPD potential of Social Media
• Consider a range of tools to develop your PLN
• Develop strategies for effective professional networking
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What is Social Media?
“Social media” is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many).
It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
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What is Social Media?
Effective way to present your own ideas and resources integrating multimedia (pictures, audio, video) and social interaction (sharing, getting comments from other people).
Threats and opportunities:*Reputation*Child protection/bullying*Time
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An extended community of
people that you can
interact with regularly
A personally chosen collection of resources you can go to when you want to learn something
http://flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2060090675/
What is a PLN?
Personal Learning Network
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How can your PLN support you?
•By sharing ideas with teachers that may have tried similar activities before: practicalities, pitfalls
•By providing examples of ready-made and tried-and-tested resources
•By providing an interaction with a worldwide audience
•By providing a source of advice, support and peer-to-peer training for language teachers
But you need to support your PLN too…
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The Social Media and CPD Virtuous Circle
Stronger impact on students’ achievement
Avoid teething problem
Wider repertoire of activities
Share own activities and resources
Read about a range of activities and resources
Activities and resources get adapted by others
Share outcomes of adapted activities
More ideas to adapt activities and resources
The Virtuous Circle of Sharing Ideas and Resources
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
• Yahoo groups- mfl resourceshttp://www.mflresources.org.uk/
Join the yahoo group from this page
Best to set up a separate yahoo! Email as this groupis very busy-great to share ideas and resources as well as keep up to date with new developments..
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Diigo http://www.diigo.com (social bookmarking)
What is it?Enables you to save your favourite websites on an independent (free) account accessible from any computer.
Enables you to share your bookmarks with other people (of your own choice or the public).
Enables you to connect with people you have a common area of interest with.
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
• Diigo (social bookmarking)Diigo: http://www.diigo.com
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Ning (social networking platform): a cautionary tale
What is it? •Enables you to share ideas and resources•Makes it easy to contact all members of a group (distribution list)
•Resources can be pictures, files, videos, links...•Closed and/ or open•Good for support groups/ exchanges/ teacher linguistic upskilling
http://uk.ning.com/
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Ning (online group/ forum): a cautionary tale
http://horslesmurs.ning.com/ http://primarymfl.ning.com/
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Facebook Pages and Groups:What is the difference?
Pages allow organizations to communicate broadly with people who like them. Pages may only be created and managed by official representatives.
Groups provide a closed space for small groups of people to communicate about shared interests. Groups can be created by anyone.
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Facebook Pages and GroupsPages
Mis cositashttp://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/MisCositascom/190662591830Franc-Parler.orghttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Franc-parlerorg/154479707914279 ALLhttp://www.facebook.com/alllanguages.org.ukLanguages South Easthttp://www.facebook.com/LanguagesSouthEast?sk=wall
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Facebook Pages and GroupsGroups
Languages in Primary Schoolshttp://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/103253749750151/
EU Educatorshttp://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/EUEducators/
CALLhttp://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/255577856335/
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Facebook Pages and GroupsOther differences include:
PagesPrivacy: Information and posts are public and available to everyone.Audience: Anyone can like a Page, be connected with it and get News updates.
GroupsPrivacy: A range of settings are available including open settings, secret and closed groups, where posts are only visible to group members.Audience: Group members must be approved or added by other members. When a group reaches a certain size, some features are limited.
Communication: Members of groups can receive notifications when other members posts in the group. Group members can participate in chats, upload photos to shared albums, collaborate on group documents and invite all
members to group events.
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Edmodo
http://www.edmodo.com/home
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Sharing photos and videoshttp://www.flickr.com/ http://www.youtube.com /
http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages/ set up by @aliceayel
http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=694292&event=21
TES Resources
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Teaching topics
Groups?=> board
Follow each other
Repin
Button
Mobile app
http://pinterest.com/about/
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Blogging and micro-blogging
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Blogging and micro-blogging
http://twitter.com/icpjones
Piggy-backing?
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Blogging and micro-blogging
http://twitter.com/icpjones
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers:
Slideshare
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
Slideshare
Downloadable/ non downloadableSlidecast/ zipcastPrivate (pro)/ PublicLarger files and video (pro)
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Wikis
A wiki is a simple website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often created collaboratively by multiple users.
Can be used:•To share teaching resources with other teachers or students•To share ideas to celebrate a particular event or promote languages in general•To share information about a project and its outcome•A reference for using a particular tool •To display students’ work and invite comments•To collect resources around a particular topic•To back up key resources published on a blog
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Wikis
Primary Languageshttp://talkaboutprimarymfl.wikispaces.com/Food from Spanish-speaking countrieshttp://wms-spanish.wikispaces.com/ Teaching with Flickrhttp://teachingwithflickr.wikispaces.com/ Phonics and MFLhttp://doonceandshare.wikispaces.com/ Activities for the European Day of Languageshttp://edl2011ideas.wikispaces.com/
Wikispace: free wikis for educatorshttp://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Wikis
Resources for Frenchhttp://french-resources.wikispaces.com/ Resources for Spanish independent practice http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com/ Mis Cositas: Resources and Ideas for Spanish http://miscositas.wikispaces.com/ (US)Languages and Second Lifehttp://slanguages.wikispaces.com/ International Valentines Day project (US)http://globalvalentines.wikispaces.com/
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Wikis
PLTS in MFLhttp://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/ Madame Thomas (US)http://ah-bon-french.wikispaces.com/ Storybirdhttp://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+StorybirdsMrs Birch’s Spanish Resources (US)http://elmundodebirch.wikispaces.com/
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bnr6QKKcsII
A tool to curate content around a defined topic. A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.
http://www.scoop.it
http://www.scoop.it/t/languages-in-the-uk/
• You collect the resources in your own online magazine• Your magazine can easily be shared via social media• Resources are suggested to you by Scoop it!• You can follow people with similar interest and
“re-scoop” the content from their topic• Other users can suggest content for your topic
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Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Mobile integration
Blogger/ Posterous/ WordpressYou Tube/ Dailymotion/ VimeoDiigoFacebookFlickrTwitterEdmodoPaper.li/ Flipboard/ ScoopitPinterestSlideshare
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The Social Media and CPD Virtuous Circle
Stronger impact on students’ achievement
Avoid teething problem
Wider repertoire of activities
Share own activities and resources
Read about a range of activities and resources
Activities and resources get adapted by others
Share outcomes of adapted activities
More ideas to adapt activities and resources
The Virtuous Circle of Sharing Ideas and Resources
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Action!
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Build Up your PLNIsabelle Jones, The Radclyffe School
Twitter: @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com