Constructing a PowerfulLearning Network

Meg GriffinCentral Bucks School District

megbg60@gmail.com

http://tinyurl.com/ydss4vc

Please open the survey and answer questions 1 & 2, leave open until end of session.

What are they?•PLN or PLC

•“No one knows everything, everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in network” Pierre Levy

Previous model

PLN Model

Why have one?

•Personalized for YOU!

•Reciprocal learning

•Aggregation of information

•Globalization

World is shrinking, BUT world of knowledge is rapidly growing!

In 2008, one week’s information in the New York Times was equivalent to knowledge gained in a lifetime in the 18th century! Karl Fisch-1

Functions of a PLN

Connect

Contribute

Collaborate

How to create one

Social Media Colleagues at School

Virtual Communities Business Contacts

Friends Specialized Networks

Family

Professional Networks

http://community.discoveryeducation.com

http://www.linkedin.com/

LinkedIn Groups:• ISTE• Discovery Educator

Network• Edubloggers• Learning, Education and

Training Professionals Group

http://www.thinkfinity.org/

55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/

Local resourcesProfessional development

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

http://www.ning.com/

http://www.classroom20.com/

http://edubloggerworld.ning.com/

http://education20.ning.com/

http://eduwiki.ning.com/http://education.ning.com

/http://necc2008.ning.com

/http://linkedteachers.ning

.com/http://teachingntechnolog

y.ning.com/

Professional Organizations

Consider what your national, state, and regional professional organizations offer for educators

List of Professional Organizations :(with thanks to Jen Dorman, Discovery Education)

http://snipurl.com/proforg

Social Networks

Facebook Groups

• Discovery Educator Network

• ISTE• Second Life for

Educators• Classroom 2.0• Educational

Technologists• Using Wiki in Education• School 2.0

http://www.flickr.com/

Micro Blogging

http://bit.ly/

http://www.twitpic.com/

http://search.twitter.com/

http://mrtweet.com/

http://www.plurk.com/

Blogging

Blogger

http://www.blogger.com/

WordPress

http://wordpress.org/

EduBlogs

http://edublogs.org/

Windows Live Spaces

http://spaces.live.com/

Popular Blogging Engines

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/pennsylvania/

STARS receive a free blog!

http://megbg.blogspot.com/

Wikis

Wikispaces

http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

PB Works (formerly PBWiki)

http://pbworks.com/

http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education--Ad-

Free

Wikis for Educators

Wet Paint

http://griffingazette.wikispaces.com/

https://mgriffin.wikispaces.com/

http://webapplications.wikispaces.com/

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking - Delicious

Social Annotation - Diigo

http://www.diigo.com

http://delicious.com/

CollaborativeWorkspaces

http://docs.google.com/

http://tinyurl.com/ydss4vc

megbg60@gmail.comhttps://mgriffin.wikispaces.com/