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.