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The Art of Cultivating a Personal Learning Network David Warlick The Landmark Project david@landmark- project.com http:// handouts.davidwarlick.co m

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This is a session delivered at the NCETC conference in North Carolina about Personal (professional) Learning Networks.

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The Art of Cultivating a Personal Learning

Network

David WarlickThe Landmark Project

[email protected]://handouts.davidwarlick.com

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A Working Definition

A personal or professional learning network

(PLN) involves an individual’s topic-oriented

goal, a set of practices & techniques aimed at

attracting and organizing a variety of relevant

content sources, selected for their value, to

help the owner accomplish a professional goal

or personal interest.

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Example

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Started the wiki

Announced it in the blogosphere and twitterverse

A growing and improving collaborative document (wiki)

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Components of a PLN

Professional goal or Personal Interest

Techniques & Practices (networking habits)

Basis for Selection

Infrastructure for attracting & organizing content from network nodes

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Tools of the Art RSS Aggregator

Blogs

Blog Searches

News Sources & News Searches

Twitterverse

Social Content

Social Networks

Community Wikis

M.U.V.E.s*

RSS Aggregator

Blogs Blog Searches

News Twitter

Social Content

Social Networks

Community Wikis

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A Sample Personal Learning Network