Creating and enhancing your personal learning network to empower your profession learning

1. PLN
Your
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2. Whats a PLN?
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3. It’s
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4. It’s
Your
Personal
Learning
Network
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5. It’s how you connect
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6. with people

7. who
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8. you learn
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9. People
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10. who share
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11. their learning
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12. It can be Powerful
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13. You are a Teacher
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14. You are a Learner
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15. You already have a PLN
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16. but
we are all
different
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17. What makes me
happy
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18. and helps me
Learn
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19. may not fityou
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20. and thats why its
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21. Your
Personal
Learning Network
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22. What does your PLN
look like now?
How Personalised is it?

23. Can we Pimp your
PLN?
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24. Lets see how 5 popular
PLN options
fityou
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26. Micro Blogging
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29. Whats great about twitter?
Loads of Tweets
Many great educators
It’s very quick and easy to write a tweet
Great with portable devices
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30. How to make Twitter work for you
Follow many great educators
Play with it - Tweet
Design your network to meet your needs
Keep it professional
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31. Join a Ning
A Ning is an online community or social
network created around a specific
interest
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33. Whats great about Nings?
It’s a social network in a “box”
Its easy
Its non threatening
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34. How to make a Ning work for you
Find a couple of Nings that suit your interests
and interact with others who share your
passion
Make the Ning your home page
Participate
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35. Write a blog
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36. 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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37. Whats great about Blogging?
Professional Reflection
The “pressure” of publishing your ideas
How much you need to learn to be able
to write about it
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38. 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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39. Subscribe to Blogs
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41. Whats great about subscribing to blogs?
The best content delivered to you
Constant fresh professional reading
New ideas from the best learning professionals
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42. 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 page
Set aside some time for your learning
Subscribe to blogs you love
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43. Social Bookmarking
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44. movie
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46. Whats great about Diigo?
Powerful research and sharing features
Full social networking capabilities
Share, discuss, annotate and highlight weblinks with
others from around the world
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47. 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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48. Which tools
fit you?
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49. remember

50. It doesn't matter what
you use

51. learning
matters

52. So step up

53. jumpin

54. your PLN
and supercharge

55. Need someone to learn
with?
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56. Count me in
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57. 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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58. If I have seen
further it is by
standing on the
shoulders of
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giants
Isaac Newton

59. The following resources where
used in the creation of this
presentation
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Many thanks to the original Artists
And thank you to those wonderful educators in my PLN
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