powerful personal learning networks pln

PLNYour

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Whats a PLN?

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It’s

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It’sYour

Personal Learning Network

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It’s how you connect

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with people

who

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you learnCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

PeopleCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

who shareCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

their learningCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

It can be Powerful

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You are a TeacherCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

You are a LearnerCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

You already have a PLNCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

but

we are all

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What makes me

happyCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MWCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

and helps me

Learn

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may not fit you

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and thats why its

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Your

Personal

Learning Network

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What does your PLN look like now?

How Personalised is it?

Can we Pimp your

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Lets see how 5 popularPLN options

fit you

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Micro Blogging

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Whats great about twitter?

Loads of TweetsMany great educators

It’s very quick and easy to write a tweetGreat with portable devices

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How to make Twitter work for you

Follow many great educators Play with it - Tweet

Design your network to meet your needsKeep it professional

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Join a Ning

A Ning is an online community or social network created around a specific

interest

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Whats great about Nings?

It’s a social network in a “box”Its easy

Its non threatening

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How to make a Ning work for you

Find a couple of Nings that suit your interests and interact with others who share your

passionMake the Ning your home page

ParticipateCatholic Education Office, Wollongong – RELS – MW

Write a blog

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Simpson (1999)

states, “One of the

best ways of

entrenching one's

knowledge is

to explain it to

others...”

Why is “Publishing” important for education?

Hutchings (2002)

credits Shulman with

the notion of publicly

sharing one’s work for

critical review that

became accepted as an

integral element of the

scholarship of

teaching and learning.

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Whats great about Blogging?

Professional ReflectionThe “pressure” of publishing your ideasHow much you need to learn to be able

to write about it

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How to make a blogging work for you

Commit to sharing your professional learning on your blog.

Regardless of your audience (or lack there of) you will learn and make new distinctions though the

blogging process.

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Subscribe to Blogs

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Whats great about subscribing to blogs?

The best content delivered to youConstant fresh professional reading

New ideas from the best learning professionals

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How to make subscribing to blogs work for you

Find a RSS reader that works for you (I prefer google reader)

Set it as your home pageSet aside some time for your learning

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Social Bookmarking

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movie

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Whats great about Diigo?

Powerful research and sharing featuresFull social networking capabilities

Share, discuss, annotate and highlight weblinks with others from around the world

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How to make Diigo work for you

Bookmark and annotate with it!!Join the group “Purposeful Learning Technologies”

Share what works for you

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Which tools fit you?

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remember

It doesn't matter what you use

learning

matters

So step up

jump in

your PLN

and supercharge

Need someone to learn with?

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Count me in

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http://twitter.com/mrwoolley

http://www.diigo.com/user/markwoolley

http://thebigquestion.edublogs.org/

Mark Woolley

http://groups.diigo.com/group/purposeful-learning-technologies

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the

shoulders of

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giantsIsaac Newton

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Many thanks to the original Artists

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