online personal learning networks

Online Personal Learning Networks

Global Communities of Practice

Barbara LindseyUniversity of Connecticut

ACTFL 2009November 21, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Today we will

• understand what online personal learning networks are and how they can support the teaching and learning of world languages

• explore selected personal learning networks

• brainstorm ways personal learning networks can support our programs, each other and our students


Learning networks

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182


Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182

Learning networks


What kind of learning networks do

studentnoviceveteran

less commonly taught ruralurban

suburban

language teachers typically have access to?

What are the advantages? Disadvantages?


What are some of your curricular challenges?

•team articulation

•common assessments

•advocacy

•differentiated instruction

•shared resources

•repository of current cultural artifacts

•other?


What networks do you use to address them?

Alec Couros describes two different kinds of educator learning networks as shown in these two figures. (Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182)Saturday, November 21, 2009

What would the perfect learning network look like for you?

What would you want to learn about? When? Where? How? With whom?


A VoiceThread by Alec Couros and 116 global collaborators


http://voicethread.com/share/67978/






















































































“If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow.”

John Dewey


Digital World: Teachers Today


How do we get from here to there?

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182Saturday, November 21, 2009

Diigo“A powerful research tool and knowledge sharing community”


Twitter"Share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in

the world"


“Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together”

Wikis


A Toni Theisen Wiki


Ning“Create Your Own Social Network”


Classroom 2.0—free!—learning sessions


Sources• Slide 2: The ugly duckling by pasma http://www.flickr.com/photos/

79471640@N00/485201047

• Slide 3: 4 Lions at waterhole by Arno & Louise http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/347999240

• Slide 4: Elephants by travfotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/60204143@N00/1938262056

• Slide 5: hidden valley by lince http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/1807924020/

• Slide 7: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182 http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

• Slide 8: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182


http://www.flickr.com/photos/79471640@N00/485201047








http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/1807924020/


http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580


Sources• Slide 9: Elephants by travfotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/

60204143@N00/1938262056



• Slide 14 What Does the Network Mean To You? by Alec Couros http://voicethread.com/#q.b67978.i350123

• Slide 16: Digital World: Teachers Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2j9qw-A0NM&feature=related






http://voicethread.com/#




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2j9qw-A0NM&feature=related




Sources• Slide 17: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and

Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182

• Slide 18: Diigo V3: Highlight & Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A

• Slide 19: http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

• Slide 20: http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=community&what=mexico%20history

• Slide 21: Educational Leadership: How Teachers Learn: Learning with Blogs and Wikis by Bill Ferriter http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/Learning_with_Blogs_and_Wikis.aspx

• Slide 22: http://www.diigo.com/profile/common/Acjeppo

• Slide 23: Antz by krembo1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A




http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=community&what=mexico%20history




http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/Learning_with_Blogs_and_Wikis.aspx






http://www.diigo.com/profile/common/Acjeppo

http://www.diigo.com/profile/common/Acjeppo

Sources• Slide 24: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2009/05/each-age-

has-its-confessions.html

• Slide 25: http://twitter.com/lindseybp

• Slide 26: http://twitter.com/astro_jose

• Slide 27: http://twitter.com/astro_jose

• Slide 28: http://twitter.com/

• Slide 29: http://twitter.com/lindseybp

• Slide 30: Wikis in Plain English by CommonCraft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=PlayList&p=4E2A33DC783A4102

• Slide 31: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/ and http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/

• Slide 32: http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers


http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2009/05/each-age-has-its-confessions.html




http://twitter.com/astro_jose










http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=PlayList&p=4E2A33DC783A4102




http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com

http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com

http://suewaters.wikispaces.com




http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers

http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers

Sources• Slide 33: Toni Theisen’s World Languages 21st Century http://

worldlanguages21stcentury.wikispaces.com/

• Slide 34: Ning in Education http://education.ning.com/

• Slide 35: Flatclassroom Project Ning http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/

• Slide 36: Classroom 2.0 Ning http://www.classroom20.com/

• Slide 37: Menagerie by ChibiJosh http://www.flickr.com/photos/88611288@N00/67289653

• Slide 38: Boog Gets a Drink by cobalt123 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/143494929/

• Slide 39: hidden valley by lince http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/1807924020/


http://worldlanguages21stcentury.wikispaces.com




http://education.ning.com

http://education.ning.com

http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com

http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com

http://www.classroom20.com

http://www.classroom20.com





http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/143494929/








online personal learning networks

Education

alec couros http

learning networks alec

open movement

travfotos http

lince http

pasma http

learning networksalec

possibilities andimplications