harnessing the potential of the internet as a professional learning tool

HARNESSING THE WEB AS A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TOOL

http://bit.ly/9f63IH - webinar resources

GOAL Explore a range of tools to expand our

professional learning network and harness the potential of the web.

Walk through how they can be used RSS

http://bit.ly/9f63IH - webinar resources

HTTP://BIT.LY/9F63IH - WEBINAR RESOURCES

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS

RSS – GET THE WEB TO COME TO YOU

READERS

Google reader

Pageflakes Netvibes Feedreader 100’s of others

RSS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

Quality sites

Send updated content to a ‘reader’.

You only have to check one place for all new content.

Organise content in folders

here

HTTP://READER.GOOGLE.COM

HTTP://READER.GOOGLE.COM

Getting started – go to wiki or type in address above

Sign up –optional – can just watch and decide later.

Adding ‘feeds’ Organising feeds

SIGN UP - HTTP://READER.GOOGLE.COM

Click here

If you have a google account then you will have access to reader.

SIGN UP - HTTP://READER.GOOGLE.COM

School email a good idea to start with.

SIGN UP - HTTP://READER.GOOGLE.COM Confirmation screen

Click here

HTTP://READER.GOOGLE.COM

ADD SOME RSS FEEDS

Copy site into here

SOME FEED TO ADD TO BEGIN WITH

See the wiki for some links to get started with.

(Add the wiki as well) http://bit.ly/9f63IH http://delicious.com/tag/pdhpepln

ADD TO IGOOGLE? This link will let you change between igoogle and classic

This link lets you add Reader and lots of other things!

HTTP://DELICIOUS.COM

Social bookmarking

FIND A GOOD SITE

SAVING BOOKMARKS TOOLBAR BUTTONS

SAVING BOOKMARKS

SAVING

NEW POST TO TOP

TAGS DELICIOUS

DELICIOUS NETWORK Can also save from here

SUBSCRIPTIONS

SIGNING UP

SIGN UP YAHOO

SIGN UP FORM

CONFIRMATION

INSTALL ADD ON – BROWSER BOOKMARK

BROWSER BUTTONS

ADD THE BUTTONS

HTTP://DELICIOUS.COM/BMCALLIS/PDHPE

Explore and save some bookmarks

Save own delicious address with the tag pdhpepln and we can all find each other.

Questions / help

TWITTER

http://janeknight.typepad.com/socialmedia/

TWITTER

Sign up for an account

Follow people who share interesting and relevant things for you

Share things yourself

TWITTER INTERFACE

Feeds from the people that follow you

TWEETName of person sending message Resend a message

@ send a message to someone

Tags to find information

JOIN TWITTER

JOIN TWITTER

WRITE A POST WITH A #PDHPEPLN

FIND PEOPLE TO FOLLOW

FIND PEOPLE TO FOLLOW

Click on person’s name

Click on follow button

All the people you follow

Their tweets come into your feed

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Will take discipline to establish these systems but once up and running will be invaluable.