#csudocfest bonsai networking (for phd students)

BONSAI NETWORKING

Prune your personal

learning network

Joyce Seitzinger DocFest

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JOYCE SEITZINGER @CATSPYJAMASNZ @ACADEMICTRIBE #CSUDOCFEST

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“I  don’t  think  educa0on  is  about  centralized  instruc0on  anymore;  rather,  it  is  the  process  [of]  establishing  oneself  as  a  node  in  a  broad  network  of  distributed  crea0vity.”    @joi  hEp://www.ny0mes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-­‐ito-­‐innova0ng-­‐by-­‐the-­‐seat-­‐of-­‐our-­‐pants.html?_r=0  

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ABOUT THE TOOLS

ABOUT THE PEOPLE

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Everyone has the same building blocks… …but how do you put them together?

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Community / Hub

Information Streams

Portfolio Curation

THE AIM OF BONSAI

“to  produce  small  trees  that  mimic  the  shape  and  style  of  mature,  full-­‐size  trees.”      “The  purposes  of  bonsai  are  primarily  contempla;on  (for  the  viewer)  and  the  pleasant  exercise  of  effort  and  ingenuity  (for  the  grower)”  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who is your audience/ community?

• Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics?

• Frequency

• Which platforms do you use for your information streams?

• What are advantages/ disadvantages?

• Can they act as ‘feeders’?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with your community?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• Use a professional avatar or personal? Both?

• How much do you share about you?

• How easily are you found?

Conversation

/Hub Information

Streams

Collections Portfolio

You

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who is your audience/ community?

• Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics?

• Frequency

• Which platforms do you use for your information streams?

• What are advantages/ disadvantages?

• Can they act as ‘feeders’?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with your community?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• Use a professional avatar or personal? Both?

• How much do you share about you?

• How easily are you found?

Conversation

/Hub Information

Streams

Collections Portfolio

You

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Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing

The social curation process

Social  cura0on  is:  “the  discovery,  selec0on,  collec0on  and  sharing  of  digital  artefacts  by  an  individual  for  a  social  purpose  such  as  learning,  collabora0on,  iden0ty  expression  or  community  par0cipa0on.”      Seitzinger,  2014,  Networked  Learning  Conference  Proceedings  

Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing

The social curation process

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who is your audience/ community?

• Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics?

• Frequency

• Which platforms do you use for your information streams?

• What are advantages/ disadvantages?

• Can they act as ‘feeders’?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with your community?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• Use a professional avatar or personal? Both?

• How much do you share about you?

• How easily are you found?

Conversation

/Hub Information

Streams

Collections Portfolio

You

PORTFOLIO STARTER FOR 10 – YOUR SLIDES

PRUNE YOUR

ROOTS

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CONTAINMENT

•  What  topics  have  your  interest?  

•  Will  your  PLN  be  personal,  professional  or  both?  

•  Research,  teaching,  personal  learning  or  all  of  the  above?  

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•  Review:  do  these  topics  s0ll  have  my  interest?  •  Have  new  topics  or  groups  come  into  my  PLN?  •  Have  new  tools  emerged?  Should  I  stop  using  some  tools?  

•  Talk  with  other  prac00oners…  

   “Listen  to  the  tree,  it  tells  you  where  it  wants  to  go.”  (Anon.)    

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Joyce Seitzinger @catspyjamasnz @academictribe joyceseitzinger@gmail.com academictribe.co

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