Online Personal Learning Networks

Online Personal Learning
Networks
Global Communities of Practice

Barbara Lindsey
University of Connecticut
ACTFL 2009
November 21, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Today we will
• understand what online personal learning
networks are and how they can support
the teaching and learning of world
languages
• explore selected personal learning
networks
• brainstorm ways personal learning
networks can support our programs, each
other and our students

Learning networks

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for
Education, December 2006, page 182


Learning networks

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and
Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182


What kind of learning networks do

student
novice
veteran
less commonly taught
rural
urban
suburban

language teachers typically have access to?

What are the advantages? Disadvantages?

What are some of your curricular challenges?

•team articulation
•common assessments
•advocacy
•differentiated instruction
•shared resources
•repository of current cultural artifacts
•other?


What networks do you use to address them?

Alec Couros describes two different kinds of educator learning networks as shown
in these two ﬁgures. (Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for
Education, December 2006, page 182)

What would the perfect learning network look like for you?

What would you want to learn about?
When? Where? How? With whom?

A VoiceThread by Alec Couros and 116 global
collaborators


“If we teach today as we taught yesterday
we rob our children of tomorrow.”

John Dewey


Digital World: Teachers Today


How do we get from here to there?

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for
Education, December 2006, page 182

Diigo
“A powerful research tool and knowledge sharing community”


Twitter
"Share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in
the world"


Wikis

“Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families
can edit together”


A Toni Theisen Wiki


Ning
“Create Your Own Social Network”


Classroom 2.0—free!—learning sessions


Sources
• Slide 2: The ugly duckling by pasma http://www.flickr.com/photos/
79471640@N00/485201047

• Slide 3: 4 Lions at waterhole by Arno & Louise http://www.flickr.com/photos/
15745225@N00/347999240

• Slide 4: Elephants by travfotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/
60204143@N00/1938262056

• Slide 5: hidden valley by lince http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/1807924020/

• Slide 7: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications
for Education, December 2006, p. 182
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

• Slide 8: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications
for Education, December 2006, p. 182


Sources
• Slide 9: Elephants by travfotos http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/
60204143@N00/1938262056

• Slide 12: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and
Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182


• Slide 14 What Does the Network Mean To You? by Alec Couros http://
voicethread.com/#q.b67978.i350123

• Slide 16: Digital World: Teachers Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=W2j9qw-A0NM&feature=related


Sources

• Slide 18: Diigo V3: Highlight & Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A

• Slide 19: http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

• Slide 20: http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=community&what=mexico
%20history

• Slide 21: Educational Leadership: How Teachers Learn: Learning with Blogs
and Wikis by Bill Ferriter http://www.ascd.org/publications/
educational_leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/
Learning_with_Blogs_and_Wikis.aspx

• Slide 22: http://www.diigo.com/proﬁle/common/Acjeppo

• Slide 23: Antz by krembo1 http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/

Sources
• Slide 24: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2009/05/each-age-
has-its-confessions.html

• Slide 25: http://twitter.com/lindseybp

• Slide 26: http://twitter.com/astro_jose

• Slide 27: http://twitter.com/astro_jose

• Slide 28: http://twitter.com/

• Slide 29: http://twitter.com/lindseybp

• Slide 30: Wikis in Plain English by CommonCraft http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=PlayList&p=4E2A33DC783A4102

• Slide 31: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/ and http://
suewaters.wikispaces.com/

• Slide 32: http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers

Sources
• Slide 33: Toni Theisen’s World Languages 21st Century http://
worldlanguages21stcentury.wikispaces.com/

• Slide 34: Ning in Education http://education.ning.com/

• Slide 35: Flatclassroom Project Ning http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/

• Slide 36: Classroom 2.0 Ning http://www.classroom20.com/

• Slide 37: Menagerie by ChibiJosh http://www.flickr.com/photos/
88611288@N00/67289653

• Slide 38: Boog Gets a Drink by cobalt123 http://www.flickr.com/photos/
cobalt/143494929/

• Slide 39: hidden valley by lince http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/
1807924020/


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