Presentation for the VSDC Conference in Richmond, VA. It contains tools that can be used to enhance your professional learning network.

1. Spicing Up Your Professional Learning Network Heather Hurley Instructional Technology Coordinator Arlington Traditional School Presentation Adapted from Powering Up Your Professional Learning Network by Jen Dorman [email_address] http:// jdorman.wikispaces.com /

2. Ask Yourself… van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24. How many Educators can I collaborate with on a daily basis?

4. Title http://www.flickr.com/photos/jutecht/2384289406/

11. NSDC Standard – Collaboration Skills The Standard Staff development that improves the learning of all students provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. “ While collaborative, face-to-face professional learning and work are the hallmarks of a school culture that assumes collective responsibility for student learning, technology will increasingly provide a means for new and different forms of collaboration . Technology will enable teachers and administrators from around the country and world to share ideas, strategies, and tools with one another in ways that will dramatically increase the number of collaborative links among educators. But electronic forms of such work will also present teachers and administrators with new challenges whose outlines are only becoming dimly visible as larger numbers of educators begin to use these processes to strengthen their teaching and leadership practices.” http://www.nsdc.org/standards/collaborationskills.cfm

12. Spicing Up Your Network

13. Professional Networks

14. http://community.discoveryeducation.com

15. http:// www.pbs.org /teachers/connect/

19. RSS Aggregators & Internet Start Pages

20. This symbol is your friend http://www.iste.org/source/Orders/isteProductDetail.cfm?product_code = newrss

22. Customized News Feeds http:// news.google.com /

23. Google Reader http:// www.google.com /reader/

24. iGoogle http:// www.google.com/ig

25. Podcasts

26. iTunes and Podcasts

27. iTunesU

28. http:// www.gcast.com /

29. Microblogs

30. http:// twitter.com /

31. Mr. Tweet looks through your extended network to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. Which are my followers I should be following in return? Who are the influential people I should be following? http:// mrtweet.net /

32. Twitter Search http:// search.twitter.com /

33. If You Can Tweet Then You Can Plurk http:// www.plurk.com /

36. What Can You Say in 140 Characters?

37. Social Bookmarking and Annotating

38. Social Bookmarking - Delicious http:// delicious.com /

39. Social Annotation - Diigo http:// diigo.com /

40. http://tinyurl.com/6zosub

41. Diigo Groups

42. Blogging

44. http:// www.nsdc.org/learningBlog/index.cfm

45. http:// blog.discoveryeducation.com/heather_hurley

47. Wikis

49. http:// eduwikius.wikispaces.com /

50. http://techatats.wikispaces.com/

51. Video

52. http:// www.youtube.com /

53. http:// www.ustream.tv/channel/aps --smart-connection-day http:// www.ustream.tv /

54. http:// www.livestream.com/barretttigertv http:// www.livestream.com /

55. Interactive Publishing - Photos

59. Flickr

61. Online Collaboration

63. http:// www.zoho.com /

64. http:// docs.google.com /

65. http:// groups.google.com /

66. http:// sites.google.com /

68. Online Conference/Meetings

69. http:// snipurl.com/denwebinars

70. http:// edtechtalk.com /

71. http://wiki.classroom20.com/live%20conversations

72. VOIP / Text / Video http:// skype.com / http:// www.oovoo.com /

73. PLN on the MUVE

75. ISTE Events http://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/ ISTE in SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/93/83/30 ISTE in SL Wikispace http:// secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net /