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My People

Questions

What is the value of a PLN?

Who can I connect with?

How can I connect with them?

Concetta Gotlieb

Teacher

Interested in technology

Interested in music

Learning about special needs

Likes to share

Who am I?

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Tony Searl

Teacher NSW

Stu Hasic

Regional Support South Sydney

Martin Pluss

Social Science Teacher NSW

Who are my people?

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Julien Ridden

Moodle, ICT Integrator NSW

Jess McCulloch

LOTE Teacher VIC

Alison Hall

Music Teacher SA

Who are my people?

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Grace Katsilis

Primary Teacher, NSW

Fiona Banjer

Primary Teacher, Brisbane

Sue Wyatt

Primary Teacher, Tassie

Who are my people?

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They are passionate!!!

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about books… or

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maths… or

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music… or

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art… or… whatever

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For me, it’s the best of both worlds.

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Looking for resources and ideas

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My favourites

http://flickr.com/photos/26094756@N04/2927163319/sizes/l/

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Feeding time…

http://flickr.com/photos/26094756@N04/2927163319/sizes/l/

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Subscribing

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How to subscribe like a pro

Don’t be ashamed of email.

Choose your medium. Invest in an feed reader.

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New options for connecting

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What is

Is a professional hub or professional social networking service for Australian Educators. It allows you to connect with a wide variety of educators for many different purposes.

Facebook For Teachers :)

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How does work?The services provide on me.edu.au allow you to:• Create an online CV• Add RSS feeds• Subscribe to colleagues info• Create your own blog

Me on

What I look like

My Study

Skills, philosophy

Teaching interests

Where I work

Me + Other Educators

sharing their teaching resources &

experiences.

video

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Finding a colleagueI just want to find someone like me…

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Sending messagesI want to talk to someone like me…

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Finding resources the old way

OLD WAY

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Finding resources the way

People

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What are YOU interested in?

NEW WAY

Interes

ts

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Contributing to a community

Links

Ideas

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Creating your own stuff

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Rich, personal, surprising, learning

My stuff my stuff

More stuff

more stuff

Getting started

complete registration process at http://me.edu.au if registered with edna just login

at first activation choose an identity/name a short id that will provide you with URL in form http://me.edu.au/p/name

** DON’T use spaces

eg me.edu.au/p/pru

Sign up

Sign up

edna single sign on

Sign up

email address

Public or private?At the point of creating your “name” you are asked to decide whether your profile will be public or private.

If you choose private colleagues will NOT be unable to find you.

This can be changed or updated at any time by editing your profile.

Details

Details

Statistics

Code of conduct

confirmation

Confirmation

Exploring

Start withEdit my profile

Edit your profile

• add welcome message and check details• don’t add interests yet• save• explore some of the other tabs

Joining a community

• click on the communities tab

• tag cloud composed from top 100 communities

• VITTA2008to join click on the tag, click on the link that says Add this to your interests

• leave a message or add a link

Check what you now see in My View

Adding colleagues•in the search box type the name of a colleague to get a list of people

•click on the name to see the profile to make sure it is the person you meant to find

•click on Add a colleague

•look at who your friends’ colleagues are.

•look at the people who belong to communities you have joined

RSS feeds

Adding a feedIf you have an existing blog, or generate an RSS feed in another way, e.g. through del.icio.us or flickr, then you are able to add these into your profile.

Input from these feeds will become part of your “activity” recorded in me.edu.au and will be part of the activity your colleagues see.

feedsDiigo

Delicio

us

Flickr

Twitter

My public profile

tools to use in groups

My public profile

My view

tools to use in groups

My view: what my colleagues are up to

Diigo

Delicio

us

Flickr

Twitter

Benefits for you• identity: your own space, including a blog

• collaboration: find like minded people, communities to join

• resources: share with others, help others

• professional presence (PLE) with space to develop your profile and CV

• learning: build skills, reputation, find new colleagues, ideas

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Explore Share

Push PullYou control

Blogs

Blogs (2)

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Blogs (3)add tags, embed images, readers submit comments for moderation

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Blog alertsGet my view alert when a colleague posts on their blog

More support

Look for Join> me.edu.au abouthttp://edna.edu.au/help

About me.edu.au bloghttp://me.edu.au/p/aboutme

showme tagme.edu.au/public/search?q=showme

email groups@edna.edu.au

References & Links•http://www.slideshare.net/bethanyvsmith/creating-an-online-personal-learning-network-presentation

• http://groups.diigo.com/groups/oz-educators

•http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/personal-learning-environments-46423