Establishing A PLN Using me.edu.au

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My People

What’s the value of a

PLN?

My PLN provides…

• Teaching ideas & lesson plans

• Find interactive resources

• Plan lessons together

• Shared experiences

• Fun and sharing jokes

• Someone to talk to

• They know things you might not

5 Steps

1. Find an online community

2. Tell people who you are

3. Find colleagues to share with

4. Ask questions

5. Contribute your own ideas

Twitter

DiigoDelicious

Classroom2.0

me.edu.au

Blogs

Step 1: Choosing A Community


What is me.edu.au

A professional hub or professional social

networking service for Australian Educators. It allows you to connect with a wide variety of educators for many different purposes.

Facebook For Teachers :)


How does work?

You can:•Create an online CV•Add RSS feeds•Subscribe to colleagues info•Create your own blog

Benefits for you• identity: your own space, including a blog

• collaboration: find like minded people, communities to join

• resources: share with others, help others

• professional presence (PLE) with space to develop your profile and CV

• learning: build skills, reputation, find new colleagues, ideas

Me + Other Educators

sharing their teaching resources &

experiences.

video


Concetta Gotlieb

Teacher

Interested in technology

Interested in music

Learning about special needs

Likes to share

Step 2: Tell People About Yourself

JoiningWhat I look like

My Study

Skills, philosophy

Teaching interests

Where I work

Getting started

complete registration process at http://me.edu.au if registered with edna just login

at first activation choose an identity/name a short id that will provide you with URL in form http://me.edu.au/p/name

** DON’T use spaces

eg me.edu.au/p/pru

http://me.edu.au/

http://me.edu.au/

http://me.edu.au/

Edit your profile

• add welcome message and check details• don’t add interests yet• save• explore some of the other tabs


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Your

best

links

Writing

blogs &

lessons

Add your stuff

RSS feeds

feedsDiigo

Delicio

us

Flickr

Twitter

My public profileMy public profile

One place to share info about yourself

Concetta Gotlieb

Teachers

Interested in technology

Interested in music

Learning about special needs

Lecturers

Step 3: Find People To Share With


teachers

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runners


music lovers


literacy experts

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mathematicians


dancers


They are passionate!!!

They share!

They make me

smarter.

They make learning

fun.

Finding a colleagueI just want to find someone like me…



Tony Searl

Teacher NSW

Stu Hasic

Regional Support South Sydney

Martin Pluss

Social Science Teacher NSW

Introducing…


Grace Katsilis

Primary Teacher, NSW

Fiona Banjer

Primary Teacher, Brisbane

Sue Wyatt

Primary Teacher, Tassie

Introducing…


Julien Ridden

Moodle, ICT Integrator NSW

Jess McCulloch

LOTE Teacher VIC

Alison Hall

Music Teacher SA

Introducing…

What’s the best?

What’s this like?

What are you doing?

How do you?

Have you ever?

Where did you find that?

Step 4: Ask Questions

Sending messagesI want to talk to someone like me…



NEW WAY What are YOU

interested in?

Joining a community

• click on the communities tab

• tag cloud composed from top 100 communities

• VITTA2008to join click on the tag, click on the link that says Add this to your interests

• leave a message or add a link

Check what you now see in My View


Contributing

Links

Ideas

Upload a resource

Make a comment

Write a blog post

Share a video

Share a picture

Share a link

Step 5: Contribute Your Ideas


Your content


Feed me PD… the freshest


PD home delivery

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Food

Bookmarks = Resources, IWB Links

Blogs = Reflections

Delivery Man

What’s Happening on me.edu.au


My view

tools to use in groups

My view: what my colleagues are up to

Diigo

Delicio

us

Flickr

Twitter


Rich, personal,

surprising, learning


When I’m looking for resources and ideas

I have


search & people power

Looking for

Never knew I wanted to find.

More support

Look for Join> me.edu.au abouthttp://edna.edu.au/help

About me.edu.au bloghttp://me.edu.au/p/aboutme

showme tagme.edu.au/public/search?q=showme

email [email protected]

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