1. Using Social Media to
develop your own Personal
Learning Network
Sue Beckingham and David Walker

2. What is Social Media
Technologies that
enable
communication, collab
oration, participation
and sharing.
Hughes A, 2009 for JISC
Social software,
software that
supports group
communications
Shirky C, 2003

3. Social Media is
a tool
for augmenting human social and collaborative abilities
a medium
for facilitating social connection and information interchange
an ecology
for enabling a "system of people, practices, values and
technologies in a particular local environment"
Suter, Alexander and Kaplan, 2005

4. Social Media: An Ecology
An ecology, habitat, or studio is simply the space for
fostering connections. Networks occur within something.
They are influenced by the environment and context of an
organization, school, or classroom. Certain ecologies are
more conducive to forming connections. ... Connection
barriers are aspects of an ecology. ... The nature of the
ecology influences the ease, type, and health of networks
created
(Siemans 2007)

5. Solis and Thomas (2009)
http://www.theconversationprism.com
Your personal choice of tools

6. Communication Spectrum
• Collaborating • Replying
• Moderating • Posting and Blogging
• Negotiating • Networking
• Debating • Contributing
• Commenting • Chatting
• Net meeting, Skyping, • E-mailing
Video Conferencing • Twittering/microblogging
• Reviewing • Instant Messaging
• Questioning • Texting
Churches, A. (2009) Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomy
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

7. Your personal level of involvement
• Creators
• Conversationalists
• Critics
• Collectors
• Joiners
• Spectators
• Inactives

8. Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomy
HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills
Creating
designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making, programming, filming, animating, bl
ogging, video blogging, mixing, re-mixing, wiki-
ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing, broadcasting.
Evaluating checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, blog commenting,
reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, refactoring, testing.
Analysing Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing,
linking, validating, reverse engineering, cracking, media clipping.
Applying Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing,
editing.
Interpreting, summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced
Understanding searches, boolean searches, blog journaling, twittering, categorising, tagging, commenting, annotating,
subscribing.
Remembering Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding, bullet pointing, highlighting
bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking, favouriting/local bookmarking, searching, googling.
LOTS Lower Order Thinking Skills Churches, A. (2009)

9. Fitting the right pieces together is
personal to you

10. Personal Learning
Information
Tools
PEOPLE!

11. It’s all learning

12. Sir Ken Robinson (2010) RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

13. The added social value >
• Enables and provides support for learning
• Can increase the effectiveness of learning
• Can increase access to learning
• Allows people to connect with each other in
spite of geographical distances
• Provides a forum and permission to
participate
• Complements face to face communication
Adapted from George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org

14. Use a PLN for asking and answering questions

15. Use a PLN to collaborate on projects

16. Use a PLN to get feedback on your own work or seek
inspiration from others

17. A PLN may include specific tools to help you get organised

18. A PLN may include following blogs and websites

19. A PLN may also include a private space to reflect

20. Learner 2.0
• Operate within decentralised and
deliberately formed networks of
tools, resources and people
• Established through contributions
to blogs, tweets/tweeting via
Twitter; sharing slides
(Slideshare) etc
• Crowdsource ideas,
active/passive social search e.g.
for research or assessment
• Importantly it is both personal
and collaborative
Source: David Hopkins, 2009, University of Bournemouth
http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk @hopkinsdavid

21. Graduate Attributes
‘Our country will need different kinds of
student experiences to enable its graduates
to contribute to the world of the future’.
Prof. Paul Ramsden, JISC Student Experiences of Technology:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/studentexperiences.aspx

22. Public Bloggers
Steve Wheeler
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/

23. Public Bloggers
Donald Clark
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

24. Jane Hart
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/

25. Top 100 tools for learning 2011

26. Activity
In groups consider:
• How do you currently inform your own professional
development in relation to social media?
• What tools do you currently use and are there any
you’d consider trying to further your professional
development or your role?

27. Remember it’s a dialogue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khalidalbaih/5653817859

28. Sue Beckingham David Walker
Sheffield Hallam University of
University Dundee
@
@suebecks #sedaconf16 @drdjwalker