If you are not actively keeping up with your own learning and professional development, you are falling behind. A Personal Learning Network (PLN) can provide you with learning from leaders, experts and colleagues around the world, bringing together communities, resources and information impossible to access from within your office walls. Learn how you can get started on your own PLN and contribute to your professional development.
On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
Start Managing Your Own Learning
1. Start Managing Your Own
Learning
Bob Bertsch
Web Technology Specialist
NDSU Ag Communication
2. Formal education is a walk through the zoo,
informal learning is a walk through the
savannah. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/godutchbaby/4432480199/
3. Formal education is knowing a tomato is a
fruit, informal learning is not using it in fruit
salad. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaspantry/3554762608/
4. Formal education is bricks and mortar,
social learning is clouds and streams
http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/
5. Formal education is the playbook, social
learning is the huddle
http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/55214370/
6. What is a learning network?
a deliberately formed network of people and
resources capable of guiding our
independent learning goals and professional
development needs.
7. Content Commentary Research Experience Conversation
Experts Colleagues Friends
Filter Filter Filter
Filter Filter
Creation
Curation
Sharing
YOU
Adapted from ―Creating a Personal Learning Network,‖ http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387
8. My learning network?
Content Social Curation
Zite Twitter Diigo
Flipboard Facebook Pinterest
Google Google + Scoop.it
Reader
Google
Alerts
9. Google Alerts
Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds
new results -- such as web pages, newspaper articles, or
blogs -- that match your search term. You can use
Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web.
For example, people use Google Alerts to:
• find out what is being said about their company or
product.
• monitor a developing news story.
• keep up to date on a competitor or industry.
• get the latest news on a celebrity or sports team.
• find out what's being said about themselves.
12. Learn More
• Getting Online Information to Come to You - Sept. 13,
2012, 10 - 11 a.m. — Learn how you can use online
tools to get the information you need to come to you.
• Finding People to Learn From - Sept. 20, 2012, 10 - 11
a.m. — Learn how use social media to find and follow
people who can really enhance your learning and
professional development.
• To sign up for any of the sessions, go to
http://bit.ly/hDxHIj.