Copy of slides used during a workshop on personal learning networks at WEMTA 2009.

1. Developing Personal
Learning Networks
Take Charge of Your Professional Development
Lucy Gray
University of Chicago Urban Education Institute
1Sunday, March 22, 2009

2. Agenda
Account creation & survey
Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, Google
http://tinyurl.com/wemtasurvey
PLN Basics - keynote
Old School Tools
New School Tools
Corporate and Non-Profit Communities
Managing ItA$
2Sunday, March 22, 2009

3. PLN Basics
3Sunday, March 22, 2009

4. Pair and Share
What surprised you?
What cha$enged your thinking?
What new connections are you making?
4Sunday, March 22, 2009

5. Old
(but still effective)
School Tools
5Sunday, March 22, 2009

6. Listservs
Message
Boards
Email
Newsletters
EDTECH
Education World
Message Board Center
TeachersFirst
QIAT
Scholastic Teacher
Boards
Librarians’
Internet Index
LM_Net
Education Week
Community Forums
ASCD SmartBrief
MiddleTalk The Math Forum Edutopia Newsletter
6Sunday, March 22, 2009

7. New School Tools
7Sunday, March 22, 2009

8. Media Sharing Microblogging
Online
Communities
Blogs & Wikis
YouTube
(video)
Twitter
(customized
Blogs
del.icio.us
(bookmarks)
(customized
group chat) Ning
(social
networking)
(linear diaries)
Flickr
(photos)
Plurk
(see above)
Wikis
(collaborative
web pages)
8Sunday, March 22, 2009

9. Form sma$ groups.
Use Lucy’s subscriptions, find 3 channels, videos or
YouTube users that might interest the group.
Enter your findings here.
YouTube
9Sunday, March 22, 2009

10. del.icio.us
Form sma$ groups.
Using Lucy’s delicious network, find 3 tags or del.icio.us
users that might interest the group.
Enter your findings here.
10Sunday, March 22, 2009

11. Flickr
Form sma$ groups.
Look through Flickr groups or the Flickr Explore
section, and find 3 Flickr users or groups that might
interest the group.
Enter your findings here.
11Sunday, March 22, 2009

12. Twitter
Form sma$ groups.
Use the Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter
or Twitter for Teachers, and find 3 Twitterers that might
interest the group.
Enter your findings here.
12Sunday, March 22, 2009

13. Ning
Form sma$ groups.
Using Ning in Education or Social Networks in
Education , find 3 Ning communities that might interest
the group.
Enter your findings here.
13Sunday, March 22, 2009

14. Blogs & Wikis
Form sma$ groups.
Using Support Blo'ing! or Educational Wikis, find 3
blogs or wikis that might interest the group.
Enter your findings here.
14Sunday, March 22, 2009

15. Pair and Share
What surprised you?
What cha$enged your thinking?
What new connections are you making?
15Sunday, March 22, 2009

16. Group Twitter Activity
Try fo$owing a few people.
Su'estions
Post a question related to PLNs or educational technology.
Mention that you are at WEMTA. See if you get a response!
Insta$ Twit This bookmarklet. Twit a resource to your
fo$owers! Make sure to include Lucy http://twitter.com/
elemenous
16Sunday, March 22, 2009

17. Virtual,Corporate &
Non-Profit
Communities
17Sunday, March 22, 2009

18. Virtual Spaces
Corporate
Spaces
Non-profit
Spaces
Second Life
ISTE and SL
SL Librarians
Apple Learning
Interchange
Curriki
Tapped In
Discovery Educator
Network
PBS Teacher Connect
Moodle
Global Classroom
example
Google for Educators
National Geographic
EdNet Communities
18Sunday, March 22, 2009

19. Managing It All:
RSS & News Readers
19Sunday, March 22, 2009

20. What is RSS?
20Sunday, March 22, 2009

21. RSS Readers
Google Reader (web-based, need a Google account)
Bloglines (web-based, requires sign-up)
Netvibes (web-based, requires sign-up)
NetNewsWire (Mac)
FeedDemon (Windows)
21Sunday, March 22, 2009

22. Activity
1. Pick your choice of a reader and start an account. If you
brought your own laptop, feel +ee to insta$ a reader.
2. Subscribe to:
a. A blog or wiki
b. A photostream in Flickr
c. A channel or user in YouTube
d. An online community
e. ATwitter user
22Sunday, March 22, 2009

23. Pair and Share
What surprised you?
What cha$enged your thinking?
What new connections are you making?
23Sunday, March 22, 2009

24. Follow You, Follow Me
Lucy’s info:
elemenous@gmail.com
iChat, Skype, Flickr, delicious, Youtube etc: elemenous
Blog: http:lucygray.org
Others to fo$ow: Craig Nansen, Charlene Chausis, Lisa
Thumann, Cheryl Davis, Steve Dembo, Paula White
24Sunday, March 22, 2009