Cultivating your Personal Learning Network

[David Warlick]

We live and work in a time of rapid change. As such, it is critical that teachers be engaged in a lifestyle of learning. Personal Learning Networks (PLN) are the people and resources that help us learn, and cultivating your PLN is part of being a teacher today.

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[mlambert74]

David,

Definitely appreciate the new frame/word---PLN: Personal Learning Network. The next challenge coupled with this concept is making a shift from teaching "old concepts" to the new emerging ideas. Random examples: How do we open the doors of unit of measurements--nanometers, pixels, terabytes, etc? How do we build learning around skills, not content?

Thanks for the idea......and pushing for paradigm shifts.

Living in the 21 st century and working out of a early 20th century model,

[David Warlick]

It seems that when learning shifts from "being taught" to discovery through a broad range of "conversations" and "connections" then new emerging ideas can help but come into play, and even be invented. ..and isn't inventive learners what the future needs?

Thanks for continuing the conversation!

[mlambert74]

As we know another synonym for inventive learning is project-based learning or sometimes called problem-based learning. We must continue to move learning from a sit-read-4 walls training program to a walk-meet others-outdoors experience. Again, as educators we need to understand and give muscle to the word--contructivist.

Working toward personalized learning using the new tools that are available today,

[Learning 2.008 Conference]

MS408

[Gabriel Abad]

Hi David, will you be looking at ELGG?

Cheers,

Gabriel

[Nancy Luan]

password: teacher

JOHO's blog.

Webpages as Graphs

Google has a blog search engine

Blogroll (to see whose blogs you are reading)

Blog, Wiki, Flicre

RSS

[Chris Smith]

List of RSS aggrgartors at
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/rssreader/

Davids main recommendation is www.netvibes.com

[James Hadley]

personal learning networks
l2PLN
http://davidwarlick.com/sl
Blog tags: personal learning network warlick
wiki: password teacher
Bill Richardson
Connect to people and resources
George siemans “Conectivisim”
Conversation-> resource
Del.icou.us
Who are are the bloggers who help other educators.
How to find nodes
google.com more-> Blogs->blog articles
using blog rolls
2nd life????
RSS how to use it.
aggregator. igoogle=desktop
netvibes.com
google reader
igoogle
page place
Control click on mac
Technorati- search for blogs
train the information to find us.........rather than us finding the information.
Flicker.com/photos/tags/........
“21st century educators teach out of today”
go to david's blog 10 ways to manage your personal learning networks.
data mining
tagcrowd.com

[Andrea Law]

Notes on this session:

Handouts at http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/
Everything is a wiki and password: teacher

Personal Learning Network (PLN): starts when you follow a person or two and then follow people they talk and write about.
PLN: Connecting to people and resources that help you do your job.
PLN: not necessarily social in nature.
PLN: you cultivate these yourselves which can then be brought into professional learning communities to share what you learn personally.

George Siemens "Connectivism" This is a valid philosophy of education, almost a new pedagogy in a time of rapid change.

Applications of personal learning networks:
Asking questions and getting help (links to these pages are on the handouts):
-Wiki page for social networking for teachers
-who do I follow as a beginning blogger.

Search for PLN: go to Google and put in your search. Then pull down the 'more' button to' blog'.
Also, on a blog you like you can search for the 'blog roll' to find other blogs you may want to follow.

Technocroti: is to the blog sphere what Google is to the world of knowledge??

Searching flikr: use the word 'tag' in your search because it looks for photos that have been tagged as maps.

21st century teachers teach out of today. They have to be connected to the moment.

Blog entry by David, worth taking a look (available in the handouts): 10 ways to keep your PLN from running amok.

Netvibes is a good example of an aggregator. www.netvibes.com

Tag crowd: another cool thing that can make a cloud of tags, makes a visual representation of most used words in any kind of text. www.tagcrowd.com

Delicious bookmarking tool: Can be used as a research tool. Type in your search word and it gives the latest sites that were bookmarked about your topic. These are websites which someone has already seen as valuable enough that they are bookmarking it. www.delicious.com this mines a conversation instead of mining the web.


Questions I still have:

• How do you share RSS feeds with your kids when you only want them to see a part of your reader?

• Aggregator: still not sure what this does? It seems to organize your RSS feeds. I wonder why they are better than just using Google reader?

[Elizabeth Wargo]

Using the guru's (yes David you are truly an PLN guru in my eye's) as examples ---what are they doing to great connected? Which tools are they adopting and which ones are they dropping. Who are they reading and collaborating with?

Technorati is a good tool to gage what individuals think and feel about a "thing."

Finding information... now we are training the information to find us!

RSS guilt.....hmmm do I suffer from this? Most likely not but it is addictive:)

Latest photos in flicker labeled with a specific tag ....drag rss to netvibes

Folders in netvibes called everyday...every week etc as a different way to organize feeds

we'renotafraid.com so powerful

Thanks for a great presentation David!

[Renee Stewart]

http://davidwarlick.com/
http://davidwarlick.com/sl
2cents
Blog Tags - Personnal Learning Networks
Get Online Handouts - a wiki, Password: Teacher

Be a learner and share your learning with the students.

Talking about journey through blogging about ed and tech

www.aharef.info - show the social network of a website

cultivate your own PLN. find nodes
Use google search engine - more- choose blogs
Click name of blog takes you to the entire blog

Choose educators from list to join their blog
Make a blogroll - List the bloggers you read consistently
Check out other peoples blog rolls

Second Life - eduisland, international schools island, join and build a PLN through a virtual world.

RSS - use this!!!! Too dynamic. Find a blog you like.
netvibes to create personal news page

Technorati - the bloggers google - search what people are saying about a topic, RSS feed those you want
Cntrl click copy paste, or drag and drop RSS link to netvibes box

Took a year out - listen by reading blogs, Will Richardson, Joho the Blog, network grows
George siemens - Connectivism - a philosophy of education

Google, choose news stories, Move RSS feed on that topic to netvibes

We train the information to find us, instead of searching out

RSS guilt - we do not need to read EVERYTHING, the hyper connection is addicted

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/map
take RSS feed to netvibes

21st century educator teach out of today, this moment, it is all about being connected.
10 Ways

In aggregater (netvibes.com, pageflakes.com) make folders everyday, every week,

MIning -
Landmarks for school - his website for teachers.
TagCrowd.com - a visual picture about what words are in most. vizual frequency.
Delicious - search bookmarks of users, recommended websites,
Twitter - search.twitter.com search LPN

Blog - We are not afraid

[Sara Best]

Notes on David's Session "Personal Learning Networks"

My summary of this session:
If I had to choose one key point that David made in this session it is that as an educator/learner you have to cultivate a personal learning network yourself. To build a community of learning you must be proactive in reading what others are writing, comment, and generate successes from these conversations. Effective use of blogging (writing one yourself, reading others, commenting, and provoking comments) were central to a PLN. Using blogrolls and RSS are tools that will help you to manage and keep up with your PLN. Social networks and SecondLife

Another key point is to train the information to find you. Using a blogroll embedded into your own blog will allow you to see when blogs you find most relevant have new postsSetting up RSS feeds will bring information to you, instead of you having to go to several different site to see if there is updated information. Organizing your RSS feeds into folders such as "every day" and "every week" will help you to organize the information most relevant to your learning in a manageable way.

My notes during the session:
Information for twittering/writing notes/accessing David's resources:
Twitter Tags: L2PLN
Include Tags in blog entry: "personal learning network warlick" as tags
Handouts on David Warlick.com
Password to edit handouts is "teacher"

Gaming:
97% of teenagers play video games
Teens play violent and non-violent games
game play is social
game play is civic

Content is People Connecting
David talked about how he began reading blogs and found other people's blogs to read through someone else's blog. Showed a photo with arrows map of the connections he made through reading blogs.
Blogs are conversations about other blogs
Joho the blog
Lawrence Lessick-Copyright/Creative commons

George Siemens "connectivism" valid philosophy of education. A valid way of learning in time of rapid change.

Web 2.0
Examples of personal learning networks. Will Richardson- What do we know about our kids futures?
Taking the network, turning into a conversation, then making into a document Ex: on a wiki

Social Networking for Teachers
What are the implications of social networking in the classroom? (handout linked in the blog)
Took the wiki history and made a photograph of each phase-converted to a video to show the changes.

Bloggers to learn from on a wikipage...bloggers who help others do their jobs

Tool to use to track your social network-webpages as graph: www.aharef.info
Creates the graph of any other webpage and how others are linked to it.

You have to cultivate the PLN yourself.
2cents worth

How do you find Nodes?
Technorati
Google-type in keyword-got to "more"-blogs-sort by date to get most recent posts
Important to ask the question "Who's blogs are you reading?"

Second life as part of PLN:
EduIsland
International Schools Island
Conversations about goals/what you and others are succeeding at?

RSS-Dave Weiner
NewsFire-Mac specific, must purchase
Netvibes aggregator-
Technorati is to the blogosphere what google is to the internet-if you want to read what people are saying about a certain topic, use Technorati.


Train the information to find us.

Question from participant? "Do you feel RSS guilt when you go to your RSS and see 1000 posts?"
Davids response-no, I don't

Tags

21st century educators teach out of today which means you have to be connected to the world of this moment.

blog entry-10 ways from keeping your PLN from running amuck.

can have aggregator folders-setup an "every day" folder/"every week" folder

Mining
Tag clouds

Blog: We are not afraid. Pictures that say "We are not afraid."