how to set up a pln
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PLNWhat is it?
How do I get it? How do I manage it?
Dianne McKenzieHead of Library
Discovery CollegeHong Kong
http://librarygrits.blogspot.com@dimac4
ProfessionalLearning Network
Professionallearning that you
personalise to meet your needs, in your time.
Traditional way of being developed professionally
You had to go looking for it, it was based on ‘experts’, infrequent, could be costly.
The new way....
You set the limits, it comes to you, in your time, hourly, daily, everyone is an expert
Why tweet?
Learn from people all over the world
Make connections
Something new all the time
http://www.bitrebels.com/social/the-4-stages-of-understanding-twitter-infographic/
Know your purpose
Be interesting
Talk to people - make connections
Stay on purposeBe consistent
Be a list maker
Tips for getting the most out of twitter
Getting started....
Open a twitter accounthttp://twitter.com/
Create a ProfileIMPORTANT
Put in a photo or picand a brief biography
Many people will block you if they do not know who you are, or what you do. Most genuine people use their real names.
See the following video tutorial on step by step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGp4cWdndc
“How to sign up for twitter” video
Butterscotch tutorials on twitter
10 part tutorial on how to use Twitter.
Start following peopleYou can start following a few people, see who they follow, and follow them
People start following you
People start listing you
You start making lists
You start hash tagging #
You start RTing
People start RTing you
Find a twitter app that suites you
Now you have an account, commit to 15 minutes a day
Social bookmarking, but much more than that
Digest of Internet Information Groups and Other stuff
Research
Check out the video on the Diigo homepage by clicking on this icon to see what it can do
Click on the this tab to get how to
start videos
There are many ways of using Diigo as part of a PLN -
check out the groups alreadythere, create your own group.
As an educator you can make groups for classes as well.
Use a blog reader to collect blogs to read, this saves you have to go and find them each time you want to
read them.
Look for the Reader tab on the top of your gmail / google account
To add a blog, you can select add a subscription, then put the URL in the box
OR
Wherever you see this symbol on a
blog
click on it and it will come up with
the choice of homepage or
reader - choose ‘reader’ for now.It will go straight into your reader.
How to manage all of this?You can set up a start page that puts everything in the one place.