Personal Learning Networks

Connect, Collaborate, Collect, Curate & Contribute

It is about using the tools at our fingertips to learn like our students do; Socially, Anytime and Anywhere.

I am part of all that I have met. Tennyson (1842)

http://vimeo.com/9995325

http://youtu.be/MqSH5TMYlz4

http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/

Benefits of a PLN

•Anytime•What you need•Educators from around the world

Connect, Collaborate, Collect, Curate &

ContributePersonal Learning Networks

Join a Social Learning Network

Connect

Use RSS, Subscriptions & Social Bookmarking and to organize your network

reader

Collect & Curate

What is RSS?What is Social Bookmarking?

Comment, ReTweet, Like and add to the conversation

Collaborate

Share your contentSlideshare

Contribute

Share your perspective

Contribute

Twitter

Connect

http://vimeo.com/36647045 via @bengrey

Twitter Principal

http://www.slideshare.net/raffikrikorian/twitter-by-the-numbers-columbia-university

“Twitter is the back fence you share with your neighbors. Except your neighbors are people all over the world”

- Scott Mcleod @mcleod

http://bigthink.com/ideas/38698

Why join Twitter?

•Direct attention to the things you

care about

•Follow and converse with thought-

leaders

•Get the news first

•Pick your filters

Why join Twitter?

•It only requires a modest time

commitment

•Can view on mobile devices

•Meeting your audience where

they learn

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Create your accountFind a few educators to follow

Follow me @plan3t_t3ch

http://listorious.com/tags/education

http://wefollow.com/

Curate

What is Social Bookmarking?

Why use Social Bookmarking?

•Save bookmarks online

•Access anywhere

•Organize by tags

•Custom URLs based on tags

Bookmark, tag, share in your browser - Firefox

Bookmark, tag, share in your browser - Chrome

Why use Social Bookmarking?

•Follow users

•Create groups

•Follow groups

Follow people on Diigo

Join Groups on Diigo

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Create your accountFollow the FCCPS_EdTech

Search for other groups in your discipline

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Why use Paper.li?

•Curation Service

•Create newspapers

•Topics you want

•Share what is shared

•Subscribe

http://paper.li/MrLands/1332938743

http://paper.li/plan3t_t3ch/1328364809

Personal Learning Networks

Connect, Collaborate, Collect, Curate & Contribute