Creating Personal Learning Networks

•Deirdre Bonnycastle• Clinical Teaching Development

• College of Medicine

• University of Saskatchewan

Humans are Tool Users

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We Teach Our Children By Using Tools

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Connectivism Underpinnings

•People learn

•through their

•connections

•to other

•people,

•places and

•ideas.

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Definitions•PLE

•Personal Learning Environment

•PLN

•Personal Learning Networks

At a higher education level,

the focus shifts from learning

foundational skills to

participating in and contributing

to the expansion of knowledge.

•- George Siemens “Connectivism”

My participation in the expansion of knowledge

Blogs

Ning

Wikis

Twitter

My contribution to the expansion of knowledge

•Active Learning Blog Carnival

•2,256 readers since November

•Medical Education Wiki

• 100 Members

• Twitter

• 400 Followers

Your Stories

IssuesToo Many Choices

Too Much Information

What do I want to

learn more about?

Ask Yourself

Getting StartedStart Small

Twitter between you and two colleagues

Check out

•http://twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/

K-12 follow

@coolcatteacher @edtechcowgirl

@angelamaiers

http://www.twibes.com/group/k12Ed

Higher Ed follow

@gsiemens @courosa @scopecommunity

@downes @mwesch

Getting StartedRead The Active Learning Blog Carnival

http://activelearningcarnival.blogspot.com/

Pick one or two of the blogs you like and follow them

Learn to use RSS feeds and get Google Reader

Get a Google Alert feed

http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&gl=

Getting StartedOpen a personal diigo account

http://www.diigo.com/index

Find others to share resources with

Join a diigo group like K-12Librarians

or Images4Education

Getting StartedJoin a NING Group

Images4Educationhttp://images4education.ning.com/

Classroom 2.0http://www.classroom20.com/

Future of Educationhttp://www.futureofeducation.com/

Join a Moodle Group

Integrating Technologyhttp://www.integrating-technology.com/pd/

SCoPEhttp://scope.bccampus.ca/

What do I know that

I might want to

share?

Ask Yourself

Sharing what you know

•Write a blog

•Contribute to a wiki

•Teach an online course for teachers

•Create an online course for teachers

•Create a NING for your discipline

•Tweet

•????

Quotes•@redstarvip: Give away everything you

know, and more will come back to you

•@peasandqs PLNs end the isolation felt in small school divisions. I am part of a greater "whole".