social networking sites for professional development marian thacher [email protected]
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How has the Web changed in the last 5 years?• Easy to create a Web site
• Easy to have a blog
• Comment on each other’s blog posts, photos, videos, bookmarks
• “Watch” what other people are doing, thinking, reading, talking about
• Your network now includes strangers!
What is a Social Networking Site?
• A Web site that allows users to connect, communicate and/or share information with each other
By Moonjazz, http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/651498439/
Examples of Social Networking
• Blogs, Vlogs, Miniblogs, Microblogs
• Del.icio.us, Magnolia, Diigo
• Facebook, MySpace
• Yahoo Groups, Ning
• Flickr, YouTube, TeacherTube
• RSS, Google Reader
• LibraryThing, Shelfari
• FriendFeed, SocialThingFrom premiardeigo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/9119028@N05/591163479/
Your Personal Learning Network
• Think about how you learn new things
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• Think about how you learned things 10 yrs ago
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• Any differences?
My PLN 10 Years ago
TeacherCoordinator
PresenterMom
Lesson Plans
Reports
Work-shops
Articles
Class Activities
Parenting
StudentsSupervisors
FriendsColleagues
Prof. Groups
JournalsBooksWeb Pages
ConferencesClassesSite Workshops
My PLN Now
Web site
ReportsWork-shops
ArticlesBlogs Grand-
parenting
Supervisors
Friends
ColleaguesProf. Groups
JournalsBooksWeb PagesConferencesClassesSite Workshops
AdministratorPresenterBlogger
Grandma
BlogsSocial NetworksListservsPodcastsAggregatorsTwitter
Online Network
Viral Professional Development
• We learn on our own with support from each other
• You don’t need a large training staff – just a few enthusiastic early adopters
• Build a network!
• Share everything – tape it, blog it, tag it, post it
• Celebrate and get the word out up and down the food chain
Viral Professional Development
• Jennifer Jones, Injenuity.com
• http://injenuity.com/archives/66
• A viral post on viral PD
Wikis
• What is a wiki?
• Go to the wiki
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/
Can you use these?
• Are you blogging?
• Are you using a wiki?
• How might you use either for professional development?
Bookmarking and Tagging
• How you save sites now
• Bookmarking
• Tagging
• Tag clouds
• Go to the wiki
When I say Social Networking…
• What’s the first thing that comes to mind?
“Traditional” Social Networking
• MySpace – OBT example
• Facebook – Used more by college students
– 500 groups related to ESL!
• Yahoo Groups
From mattkeefe - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/
New Social Networking• Ning
– A list of social network sites for education
– English teachers in Mexico
– Classroom 2.0
– Go to the wiki
Sharing Media
• Flickr
• YouTube
• TeacherTube
• Ustream
• Go to the wiki
Sharing Books
• Shelfari
• LibraryThing
From Phil Moore - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/
Keeping up with your network
• Aggregators, Feeds
• My Yahoo
• Google Reader
• Jaiku, Friendfeed, SocialThing
• Go to the wiki
GO FORTH AND
MULTIPLY!