Social Learning 2.0

A-Z of Visuals

for Key Concepts

A = anyone ~ anywhere ~ anytime ~ anyplace ~ always on

A - aggregators

B - Blogs ~ a superb literacy learning tool

B – blogging, blogosphere

Blue sky thinking with my head in the clouds

Always consider the beliefs that lie hidden

wordle.net-my delicious bookmarks 22Jan09

My professional learning journey

Bookmarking - a social activity

C - connecting and networking for professional learning

Collaboration

Commentary

Communication

Conversation

and …

convergence

Gravity magazine

connections

G – gaming, generational change, google

Intel new technology

My igoogle page 18jan09

Google – Blogger, Reader, gmail, Picasa, Sites, shared stuff …

L - literacy, RSS feeds, information overload

CHANGE ~ beliefs, thinking, practices to transform teaching

L = Laptops for learning. OLPC program has led the way

Michael Wesch videos

M - media mobile, mlearning

M – media sharing on SlideShare, Flickr and similar tools

Fastforwardblog.com

Micro-blogging

Twitter followers using Twitter mosaic

Designed by Jeff Utecht

Immersion

Evaluation

Know it all

Perspective

Balance

I would add reflection

and review

P - personalised, PLE, PLN, PLC, participation

UK Personalised Learning: A Practical Guide

S- social media participation

How crowds work? What roles and activities suit you?

Social web learning --> historical perspective

Thoughts on How-Tos• Be receptive to change• Collaborate• Create opportunities• Embrace effective

practice• Follow early-adopters• Interact professionally• Laptops and netbooks• Learn, learn, learn

• Manage micro-learning • Network • Participate actively• Produce and share• Social learning• Think laterally

Your ideas here:

Pedagogy and then TOOLs

Look out for beacons and lighthouses of effective practice.

Log and winding road to sustainable change

Look for well-defined tracks to travel.

macoun.edublogs.org.

READ to LEAD

Participatory

Producer-user

Social learning

Read-write

web 2.0 learning

Aim high, listen carefully and look beneath the cloud for personal professional

knowledge that needs to be transformed.

Produced: March 2009