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Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network

Session Outline

  1. 21st Century Skills
    1. Are They Really Ready to Work?, by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, & Society for Human Resource Management.
  2. PodcasterCon Story
    1. The new flows of information that are possible and probable today
      Warlick, David. "This Was Cool." [Weblog 2¢ Worth] 8 Jan 2006. The Landmark Project. 5 Jul 2008 <http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=249>.
  3. Web 2.0
    1. Wikipedia Definition -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
    2. Blogs
      1. Warlick's blog -- 2¢ Worth
      2. Set up a blog
        1. Wordpress.com -- http://wordpress.com/
        2. Blogger.com -- http://blogger.com/
        3. for classes 21 Classes, ePals, Gaggle, Class Blogmeister
    3. Wikis
      1. EduBloggerCon -- http://www.edubloggercon.com/San+Antonio+2008+Session+Offers
      2. Set up a Wiki
        1. Wikpspaces -- http://wikispaces.com/
        2. PBWiki -- http://pbwiki.com/
        3. WetPaint -- http://wetpaint.com/
    4. Much more...
    5. Network Visualization Tool: Websites as Graphs -- http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/
  4. Examples of PLNs at Work
    1. Blog Network Possibilities
      1. What do you Think of the Future blog post from Will Richardson, asking for help in defining the future we are preparing our children for.
        Richardson, Will. "What Do We Know About Our Kids' Futures? Really.." [Weblog Weblogg-ed] 14 Feb 2008. 5 Jul 2008 <http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/what-do-we-know-about-our-kids-futures-really/>.
      2. Miguel Guhlin compiled the contributed comments into a single wiki site for future reference.
        Guhlin, Miguel. "Skills Students' Futures Require Them to Have." Future Requires Kids to.... 18 Feb 2008. 8 Jul 2008 <http://mguhlin.wikispaces.com/futurerequireskidsto>.
    2. A collaborative effort to create a wiki page, Social Networking for Teachers
      1. Wiki Site -- http://socialnetworking4teachers.wikispaces.com/
      2. Video on TeacherTube -- http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=35c12c83baf86872ce7c
  5. Finding Network Nodes
    1. Finding Bloggers
      1. Blogging Educators Wiki -- http://socialnetworking4teachers.wikispaces.com/Bloggers+to+Learn+From
      2. Top 100 Education Bloggers -- http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs
      3. Shift Happens List -- http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/Education+Bloggers
      4. List of Bloggers from Support Blogging -- http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
      5. Technorati Blog Search Engine -- http://technorati.com/
      6. Google Blog Search -- http://blogsearch.google.com/
      7. Twitter: Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want instant mobile updates—for others, you can just check the web. Invite your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be -- http://twitter.com/
      8. News
        1. Most News Sources NY Times, CNN, BBC, & PBS
        2. News Searchers Google News,
      9. Other Sources of Social Content
        1. Flickr: Photo Album site -- http://flickr.com/
        2. YouTube: Video sharing sites -- http://youtube.com/
        3. Del.icio.us: Social bookmarking -- http://del.icio.us/
  6. Spinning Your Web
    How do you have all of this content come to you? How do you connect to your Network? The most commonly used method is the use of RSS Aggregators.
    1. Aggregators -- Wikipedia Article
      1. Bloglines -- http://bloglines.com/
      2. Google Reader -- http://google.com/reader/
      3. Netvibes -- http://netvibes.com/
      4. Pageflakes -- http://pageflakes.com/
  7. Cultivating your Personal Learning Network
    1. 10 Ways to keep your Personal Learning Network from Running Amok
  8. Mining Your Network -- Tools for mining the information landscape and for mining your network.
    1. Blogpulse -- http://blogpulse.com/
    2. Tag Clouds -- Wikipedia Article
      1. Wikipedia Article
      2. Tag Crowd for generating Tag Clouds
    3. Summize -- http://summize.com/
    4. Twist Flaptor -- http://twist.flaptor.com/
  9. Other Tools
    1. Collaborative Content
      1. Google Docs -- http://docs.google.com/
      2. VoiceThread -- http://voicethread.com/
      3. Diigo -- http://diigo.com/
      4. Moodle -- http://moodle.com/
    2. Direct/Indirect Collaboration
      1. Skype -- http://skype.com/
      2. Ustream TV -- http://ustream.tv/
      3. Second Life -- http://secondlife.com/
    3. Mashups
      1. Programmable Web -- http://www.programmableweb.com/
      2. Buzztracker -- http://buzztracker.com/
      3. Cloudalicious -- http://cloudalicious.com/
      4. Hitchhikr -- http://hitchhikr.com/
      5. Twittervision -- http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d
      6. Flickrvision -- http://flickrvision.com/
    4. Social Networks
      1. MySpace -- http://myspace.com/
      2. Facebook -- http://facebook.com/
      3. bebo -- http://bebo.com/
      4. Linked[in] -- http://linkedin.com/
      5. Ning -- http://ning.com/

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