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Build Up your PLNIsabelle Jones, The Radclyffe School

Twitter: @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

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Aims

• Reflect on the CPD potential of Social Media

• Consider a range of tools to develop your PLN

• Develop strategies for effective professional networking


What is Social Media?

“Social media” is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many).

It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)


What is Social Media?

Effective way to present your own ideas and resources integrating multimedia (pictures, audio, video) and social interaction (sharing, getting comments from other people).

Threats and opportunities:*Reputation*Child protection/bullying*Time


An extended community of

people that you can

interact with regularly

A personally chosen collection of resources you can go to when you want to learn something

http://flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2060090675/

What is a PLN?

Personal Learning Network


How can your PLN support you?

•By sharing ideas with teachers that may have tried similar activities before: practicalities, pitfalls

•By providing examples of ready-made and tried-and-tested resources

•By providing an interaction with a worldwide audience

•By providing a source of advice, support and peer-to-peer training for language teachers

But you need to support your PLN too…


The Social Media and CPD Virtuous Circle

Stronger impact on students’ achievement

Avoid teething problem

Wider repertoire of activities

Share own activities and resources

Read about a range of activities and resources

Activities and resources get adapted by others

Share outcomes of adapted activities

More ideas to adapt activities and resources

The Virtuous Circle of Sharing Ideas and Resources


Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers

• Yahoo groups- mfl resourceshttp://www.mflresources.org.uk/

Join the yahoo group from this page

Best to set up a separate yahoo! Email as this groupis very busy-great to share ideas and resources as well as keep up to date with new developments..



Diigo http://www.diigo.com (social bookmarking)

What is it?Enables you to save your favourite websites on an independent (free) account accessible from any computer.

Enables you to share your bookmarks with other people (of your own choice or the public).

Enables you to connect with people you have a common area of interest with.



• Diigo (social bookmarking)Diigo: http://www.diigo.com



Diigo: http://www.diigo.com



Ning (social networking platform): a cautionary tale

What is it? •Enables you to share ideas and resources•Makes it easy to contact all members of a group (distribution list)

•Resources can be pictures, files, videos, links...•Closed and/ or open•Good for support groups/ exchanges/ teacher linguistic upskilling

http://uk.ning.com/



Ning (online group/ forum): a cautionary tale

http://horslesmurs.ning.com/ http://primarymfl.ning.com/



Facebook Pages and Groups:What is the difference?

Pages allow organizations to communicate broadly with people who like them. Pages may only be created and managed by official representatives.

Groups provide a closed space for small groups of people to communicate about shared interests. Groups can be created by anyone.



Facebook Pages and GroupsPages

Mis cositashttp://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/MisCositascom/190662591830Franc-Parler.orghttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Franc-parlerorg/154479707914279 ALLhttp://www.facebook.com/alllanguages.org.ukLanguages South Easthttp://www.facebook.com/LanguagesSouthEast?sk=wall



Facebook Pages and GroupsGroups

Languages in Primary Schoolshttp://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/103253749750151/

EU Educatorshttp://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/EUEducators/

CALLhttp://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/255577856335/



Facebook Pages and GroupsOther differences include:

PagesPrivacy: Information and posts are public and available to everyone.Audience: Anyone can like a Page, be connected with it and get News updates.

GroupsPrivacy: A range of settings are available including open settings, secret and closed groups, where posts are only visible to group members.Audience: Group members must be approved or added by other members. When a group reaches a certain size, some features are limited.

Communication: Members of groups can receive notifications when other members posts in the group. Group members can participate in chats, upload photos to shared albums, collaborate on group documents and invite all

members to group events.



Edmodo

http://www.edmodo.com/home



Sharing photos and videoshttp://www.flickr.com/ http://www.youtube.com /

http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages/ set up by @aliceayel

http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=694292&event=21

TES Resources


Pinterest

Teaching topics

Groups?=> board

Follow each other

Repin

Button

Mobile app

http://pinterest.com/about/



Blogging and micro-blogging

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com




http://twitter.com/icpjones

Piggy-backing?




http://twitter.com/icpjones


Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers:

Slideshare



Slideshare

Downloadable/ non downloadableSlidecast/ zipcastPrivate (pro)/ PublicLarger files and video (pro)


Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Wikis

A wiki is a simple website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often created collaboratively by multiple users.

Can be used:•To share teaching resources with other teachers or students•To share ideas to celebrate a particular event or promote languages in general•To share information about a project and its outcome•A reference for using a particular tool •To display students’ work and invite comments•To collect resources around a particular topic•To back up key resources published on a blog



Primary Languageshttp://talkaboutprimarymfl.wikispaces.com/Food from Spanish-speaking countrieshttp://wms-spanish.wikispaces.com/ Teaching with Flickrhttp://teachingwithflickr.wikispaces.com/ Phonics and MFLhttp://doonceandshare.wikispaces.com/ Activities for the European Day of Languageshttp://edl2011ideas.wikispaces.com/

Wikispace: free wikis for educatorshttp://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers



Resources for Frenchhttp://french-resources.wikispaces.com/ Resources for Spanish independent practice http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com/ Mis Cositas: Resources and Ideas for Spanish http://miscositas.wikispaces.com/ (US)Languages and Second Lifehttp://slanguages.wikispaces.com/ International Valentines Day project (US)http://globalvalentines.wikispaces.com/



PLTS in MFLhttp://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/ Madame Thomas (US)http://ah-bon-french.wikispaces.com/ Storybirdhttp://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+StorybirdsMrs Birch’s Spanish Resources (US)http://elmundodebirch.wikispaces.com/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bnr6QKKcsII

A tool to curate content around a defined topic. A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.

http://www.scoop.it

http://www.scoop.it/t/languages-in-the-uk/

• You collect the resources in your own online magazine• Your magazine can easily be shared via social media• Resources are suggested to you by Scoop it!• You can follow people with similar interest and

“re-scoop” the content from their topic• Other users can suggest content for your topic


Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers: Mobile integration

Blogger/ Posterous/ WordpressYou Tube/ Dailymotion/ VimeoDiigoFacebookFlickrTwitterEdmodoPaper.li/ Flipboard/ ScoopitPinterestSlideshare


The Social Media and CPD Virtuous Circle

Stronger impact on students’ achievement

Avoid teething problem

Wider repertoire of activities

Share own activities and resources

Read about a range of activities and resources

Activities and resources get adapted by others

Share outcomes of adapted activities

More ideas to adapt activities and resources

The Virtuous Circle of Sharing Ideas and Resources


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Build Up your PLNIsabelle Jones, The Radclyffe School

Twitter: @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

[email protected]

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