6. Turn to your neighbor...
Discuss: What is a personal
learning network?
7. Working PLN Definition
A personal learning network (PLN)
involves an individual’s topic-oriented
goal, a set of practices & techniques
aimed at attracting and organizing a
variety of relevant content
sources,selected for their value, to
help the owner accomplish a
professional goal or personal interest.
c/o David Warlick
8.
9. Components of a PLN
-Professional goal
-Personal interest
-Learning techniques & practices
-Reason for selection
-Develops a system to learn/interact
-System to organize network content
11. How To Develop a PLN
1. Explore the Network
2. Establish Your Identity
3. Personalize Your Experience
4. Connect to a Community
5. Share
6. Collaborate
14. “... networks reconfigure themselves in
real-time, on a global local scale, and
permeate all domains of social life. This is
why we live in a network society, not in an
information society or a knowledge
society.”
Castells, 2004
15. The Social
Web
• community
• share
• collaborate
• interact
• user-centered
• creators
•
45. The Personal Web "...a growing set of free and simple
tools and applications... a personal
web — that explicitly supports one’s
social, professional, learning and other
activities via highly personalized
windows to the networked world.
Online material can be saved, tagged,
categorized, and repurposed without
difficulty and without any special
knowledge of how web pages are put
together...creating and distributing
content, to organizing one’s personal
and professional time, to developing a
library of resources that constantly
refresh and update themselves...
The 2009 Horizon Report
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009
59. Real time
information,
feedback and
news.
http://search.twitter.com
60. “Community cannot for long feed on
itself; it can only flourish with the coming
of others from beyond, their unknown and
undiscovered brothers [and sisters].”
Howard Thurman
81. Higher Ed Live
http://higheredlive.com/
•Regular Video Podcasts
•Higher Ed & Student Affairs
•Interviews
•Blog Posts
•
#HigherEdLive #SALive
@HigherEdLive
84. Making Connections
1. You do not have to know it all
2. Start the conversation
3. Respond to others
4. Give thanks
5. Pay it forward
6. Social web = be social
