empowering students through personal learning networks
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P NPERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS
Empowering students through
Corinne Weisgerber, Ph.D. Shannan Butler, Ph.D.
St. Edward’s University@corinnew, @shannanbutler
built on social media platforms
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in
the days of square-rigged ships.
“ “Vannevar Bush, 1945
Traditionally you had to go !nd new information, research & expertise
A PLN can bring that information
directly to you or your classroom
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Mayaangelou Michio
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Al gore
mark kelly
SteveJobs
StEPHEn
HawkingHilLaryclinton
andersoncooper
Georgelucas
frank
gehry
Jasperjohns
Mayaangelou Michio
kaku
martha stewartJON
stewart
warren
buffett
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Everyone’sKnowledge Pool Grows
PLNs are deliberately formed networks of people and resources capable of guiding
our independent learning goals and professional development needs.
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Blogs
How to build a PLN using
Social Bookmarks
You don’t need to tweet to get value out of Twitter
Setting Up Your PLN Using Twitter
Identify people in your !eld whose work you admire
Use Twitter’s search engine to !nd their Twitter handle
Follow them on Twitter
Expand the list of experts you follow by:
Setting Up Your PLN Using Twitter
Identify people in your !eld whose work you admire
Use Twitter’s search engine to !nd their Twitter handle
Follow them on Twitter
Expand the list of experts you follow by:
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Checking their following/follower lists
Checking out Twitter lists
Checking following/follower lists Checking out Twitter lists
Setting Up Your PLN Using Twitter
Identify people in your !eld whose work you admire
Use Twitter’s search engine to !nd their Twitter handle
Follow them on Twitter
Expand the list of experts you follow by:
Checking their following/follower lists
Checking out Twitter lists
+
+Checking out the #followfriday suggestions +
Checking out the #followfriday suggestions
Setting Up Your PLN Using Twitter
Identify people in your !eld whose work you admire
Use Twitter’s search engine to !nd their Twitter handle
Follow them on Twitter
Expand the list of experts you follow by:
Checking out the #followfriday suggestions
Checking their following/follower lists
Checking out Twitter lists
+
+
+Checking RTs to !nd out who sent the original tweet +
Checking RTs to !nd out who sent the original tweet
Tweak that PLN 1. Filter your incoming tweets:
Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to divide followees into groups
Tweak that PLN 1. Filter your incoming tweets:
Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to divide followees into groups
Tweak that PLN 1. Filter your incoming tweets:
Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to divide followees into groups
Tweak that PLN 1. Filter your incoming tweets:
Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to divide followees into groups
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Tweak that PLN 1. Filter your incoming tweets:
Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to divide followees into groups
2. Test drive your subscriptions Then re-evaluate
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Tweak that PLN 1. Filter your incoming tweets:
Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to divide followees into groups
2. Test drive your subscriptions Then re-evaluate
3. Repeat steps to add new voices to your Twitterstream
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Identify people in your !eld whose work you admire
Find their individual and/or organizational blogs
Subscribe to their blog’s RSS feed
Expand the list of experts you subscribe to by:
Checking their blog roll
Following links on their blog to other blogs
Checking to see if your favorite twitter users blog
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Setting Up Your PLN Using Blogs
Setting Up Your PLN Using Social Bookmarks
Identify a resource on a topic of interest
Bookmark it using a social bookmarking service
Check to see who else has bookmarked the resource
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Setting Up Your PLN Using Social Bookmarks
Identify a resource on a topic of interest
Bookmark it using a social bookmarking service
Check to see who else has bookmarked the resource
Examine their tag cloud to see what their interests are
Tag Cloud of a Delicious User Most frequently used tags displayed in bigger font size
Tag Cloud of a Delicious User Most frequently used tags displayed in bigger font size
Setting Up Your PLN Using Social Bookmarks
Identify a resource on a topic of interest
Bookmark it using a social bookmarking service
Check to see who else has bookmarked the resource
Con!rm they offer multiple resources of interest to you
Examine their tag cloud to see what their interests are
Look for someone who !ts your interests
Add their bookmark feed to your feed reader +
NLEARNING NETWORK
CCLASSROOM
• Check in once a day/week
• Monitored by teacher/class
K-12:
• Student-built• Progress report• Tied into self-directed
learning project
College:
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