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Web Sites Related to Personal Learning Networks

Here are all of the web sites I have bookmarked related to Personal Learning Networks.





  • Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter
    Twitter has opened up amazing opportunity in my life – it helps grow my personal brand, drives traffic to my online businesses and on a daily basis opens up new relationships and networks that I could never have dreamed of having access to.









  • Kathy Schrock -- Educational Technology Blogs
    Because educational technology blogs are spread out all over the Web, I have attempted to create a listing of some of the most popular, controversial, or informative blogs. Most of them defy categorization, and often deal with issues that are not necessarily related to educational technology, so they are simply presented here in alphabetical order. If you have additions to the list for me to evaluate, please let me know via e-mail at kathy@kathyschrock.net


  • Skyrails Blog
    over 9000 nodes, has groups, has bookmarking system, has protein structure displayed, has automatic grouping, .. and the language has transformed yet again. Manual will be out sometimes in the distant future as well.


  • echelon » Visualization of Social Network
    For a long time now I have been a great admirer of Matthew Hurst’s work and I’m continuously impressed by the works posted at visualcomplexity.com. So I decided it was time for me to try something like this myself.


  • EdTechTalk | Collaborative Open Webcasting Community
    EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. We webcast several live shows each week. During shows, listeners can use any common media player (i.e. Windows Media Player, Real Player, or iTunes) to listen to the discussion and use the chat room to make comments and ask questions.


  • Geek!Ed!:Technology in Education
    Geek!Ed! is a frequently-weekly netcast produced by five geeks (and occasional guests) from Pinckney Community Schools, MI. We're geeks in education who are geeked about the impact of technology on education.



  • Nexus friend grapher
    Looking to visualize your Facebook friend graph? You can with a Facebook app called Nexus. This app is a friend grapher that displays a visual analysis of your Facebook connections. But it's not just a pretty picture: in addition to viewing how your friends are connected, you can use Nexus to discover what interests your friends share and which of your friends are the most similar to you.


  • PmWiki | Cookbook / Cookbook
    Welcome to the PmWiki Cookbook! The "recipes" in the Cookbook describe add-on scripts and various "tips and tricks" that let you customize PmWiki in lots of different ways. If this is your first exposure to the Cookbook, you may want to read Cookbook Basics.


  • Category:Extensions - MediaWiki
    A list of all extensions that have a page on MediaWiki.org can be seen under the subcategory listed below: all extensions. Other extensions might only be in the Subversion repository.



  • USTREAM.TV
    LIVE VIDEO Streaming, Free Video Chat Rooms. Watch Shows & Broadcast Live TV, stream videos, web podcasts. Live streaming videos and webcam chat


  • Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
    Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.


  • Twist - see trends in twitter
    Twist is a tool that allows you to track trends on Twitter, similarly to what Google Trends does for Google searches. It gathers tweets as they are posted, filters redundant ones and compiles the rest into two-hour intervals.


  • Twitter Search
    A search feature of Twitter, enabling us to search the conversation by keyword.


  • The Story of My “Second Life”
    In February I received a $10,000 Faculty Excellence Grant from Walden University (where I teach part-time) to study Second Life (SL) and its implications for education at a distance. Thanks to this generous grant, I will be taking a leave of absence from my teaching duties so I can spend at least four to six months exploring, investigating and experimenting in SL. My vision is to essentially immerse myself in SL as an educator, documenting the experience in real time. I know that with the right tools, the right input, the right contacts, the right perspective, and enough time, I can create a practical resource of great value for educators who wish to use SL with their students, and to learn about it for themselves.


  • Main Page - Croquet Consortium
    Croquet is a powerful open source software technology that, in the form of the Croquet Software Developer's Kit (Croquet SDK), can be used by experienced software developers to create and deploy deeply collaborative multi-user online vitual world applications on and across multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, the Croquet system features a peer-based messaging protocol that dramatically reduces the need for server infrastructures to support virtual world deployment and makes it easy for software developers to create deeply collaborative applications. Cobalt is a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort to develop an open source virtual world browser and authoring toolkit application based on the Croquet technology.






  • realXtend
    realXtend offers a free open source virtual world platform with which you can create your own applications using it as a base.


  • RezEd Podcast, Episode 20- Deborah Fields on Whyville Learning Structures and Opportunities - RezEd
    Barry Joseph (of Global Kids) interview Deborah Fields, a doctoral student at the University of California. Over the past two years she had spent innumerable hours in Whyville, a virtual world for tweens, studying Whyvillian news articles, an after-school club that played on Whyville, cheat sites about Whyville, becoming an established, wealthy citizen on the platform and paying off her loan for an exclusive Whyville car.


  • Multiverse
    Conceptually, there are two levels of architecture: that of the Multiverse Network as a whole and the architecture for a single world. The Multiverse Network, Inc., provides the overall infrastructure for the network, while each independent game developer runs a customized world system.



  • Classroom 2.0
    Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.



  • RezEd
    Welcome to RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning.


  • Facebook | Home
    Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.


  • MySpace
    Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!



  • Google News
    Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.


  • Delicious
    Delicious (formerly spelled del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking services where people to post their bookmarked sites, making them logically available to other people.






  • Pageflakes
    Pageflakes, the social personalized homepage, is revolutionizing how we how we start with and use the Internet. At www.Pageflakes.com, you can easily customize the Internet and make it yours using ‘”Flakes” – small, movable versions of all of your web favorites that you can arrange on your personal homepage. You can also participate in the Pageflakes community, sharing your page as a “Pagecast” with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe. Over 235,000 Flakes and 140,000 Pagecasts are available for thousands of uses and interests, including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, news, sports, e-mail, local events, search, photos, music, videos – even interactive tools like a calendar and a to-do list – and just about anything else you do on the web at school, work and at home. The Pageflakes user community creates and helps each other discover more new Flakes and Pagecasts every day.


  • YouTube
    A premiere video sharing site





  • shifthappens » Education Bloggers
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    Here are some thoughtful folks who are blogging about the changes they see - or want to see - in 21st century education. This list is by no means meant to be exclusive. These are just a few of the individuals that we have found to be informative for our own personal and professional learning.


  • Top 100 Education Blogs | OEDb
    Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students, and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before. Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs. Over 5,000 of them are about education. It is likely that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more education-related blogs on the Web. (UPDATE: There are over 30,000 blogs hosted at edublogs.org alone. Thanks James Farmer!) Here is a list of our staff's 100 favorites.


  • TweetDeck
    TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.


  • Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific
    Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.


  • twhirl | the social software client
    twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too. Plus, a lot of usability enhancements have been added.


  • Edmodo - Microblogging For Education
    Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other.


  • Plurk is a social journal for your life
    Noun. plurk (plüer-kh) - A really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life in deliciously digestible chunks. Low in fat, 5 calories per serving, yet chock full of goodness.


  • Twitter / Home
    Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.


  • MediaWiki
    MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.

    Use the links below to explore the basic site contents. You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary reference language for the whole site is English.


  • PmWiki | PmWiki / PmWiki
    PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an "Edit" link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. You do not need to know or use any HTML or CSS. Page editing can be left open to the public or restricted to small groups of authors.


  • Wiki - Free Website - Wetpaint
    Get your community actively involved with your brand! Prominent entertainment, technology, and lifestyle brands are adding social publishing to their websites to drive user engagement, extend audience reach, and increase revenue.


  • 21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs - Home
    21Classes is a product provided by 21Publish Inc. 21Publish provides products for the multi-user blogging and publishing needs of classrooms, businesses, communities, clubs, schools & universities, and non-profit organizations. A unique, 2-layer system makes it easy to customize and manage a multi-user blog system with an unlimited number of members.



  • ePals Global Community
    Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts


  • WordPress.com » Get a Free Blog Here
    Open source WordPress has been incredibly successful and risen from a handful of users to the most-used blog tool in its category. However, as easy-to-use as we could make it, there were still a few barriers in that it requires a hosting account, a database, FTP, and a whole alphabet soup of acronyms that make normal people like you and me dizzy.


  • Blogger: Create your free blog
    Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit. (Unless it was other people's free beer.)


  • socialnetworking4teachers » Bloggers to Learn From
    We frequently hear from teachers, "How do I learn to do this Web 2.0 stuff? What are the steps?" The very best answer that I can think to give is to read blogs. It's how I learned. But there are a lot more good bloggers out there today and finding them is a challenge. So I would like to provide a list of suggested bloggers to read based on what you want to learn.


  • TeacherTube - Personal Learning Network -- At Work
    Description: This video demonstrates the power of social networking. Several days ago, I announced via Twitter and later on my blog (2¢ Worth) a wiki page I was constructing about Social Networking for Teachers. I asked volunteers to come in a help me populate the page. I did the first two edits and then sat back and watched. The page was edited 40 times in the first three hours.


  • socialnetworking4teachers » home
    This page is being built not only to generate content about social networking for teachers, but also as a demonstration of the effects of social networking, as the process of building out this page will be captured and produced as a video.


  • Around the Corner - MGuhlin » futurerequireskidsto
    Will Richardson (Web-logged) challenges readers to list what our kid's futures will require them to be. It's a great question to have, and David Warlick asks if someone will compile that conversation into a list.


  • Weblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.
    A lot of us (or should I say I?) frame the conversation around Read/Write Web tools in schools in the context of this very blurry future that our kids are entering into, one that despite its lack of clarity is decidedly different from today. In my own case, I tend to frame this through my parenting lens, that it doesn’t feel like the system is preparing my kids for their futures very well even though we don’t exactly know what that future looks like.



  • TwitterMeter
    Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline since I started gathering them on 11/6/2007 and plot the number of times that word was used over time.




  • Lively - Welcome
    Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.


  • Dizzywood - a fun virtual world and free kids games
    Welcome to Dizzywood, an exciting virtual world for kids. There are all kinds of imaginative places to explore, fun Dizzywood secrets and stories to discover, and fun games to play, including puzzles, arcade games, dress-up games, and much more. Dizzywood is safe for kids and free to use. Click Play Now to start your adventure!


  • 100+ learning professsionals to follow on Twitter
    I'm often asked for the names of (e-)learning professionals - from both education and corporate learning - to follow on Twitter. Here is a growing list I've put together, together with other related professionals - in alphabetical order by Twitter username. If you know of someone who you think should be on the list, email me. Thanks to all those who have submitted names to the list. (Jane Hart)


  • Sun's Virtual Workplace (Wonderland)
    Sun's Virtual Workplace

    On any given day, over 50% of Sun's workforce is remote. MPK20 is a virtual 3D environment built using the Project Wonderland Toolkit. In this 3D world, employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Just like on Sun's physical Menlo Park campus, known as "MPK," inhabitants of the virtual MPK20 office building can work together in planned meetings, or can talk informally in unplanned encounters. Unlike the physical campus, however, in MPK20, the community can be built and maintained without the constraints of physical location.


  • There - the online virtual world that is your everyday hangout
    There is an online hangout where you can meet friends, play games and explore a 3D virtual world that's yours to help design and build. Create your own fully customizable avatar - then get in There and join the crowd. Join now! To get a closer look at There, check out our Screenshot Gallery or view one of our Member Created Videos.


  • Main Page - OpenSim
    The OpenSimulator Project is a BSD Licensed Virtual Worlds Server which can be used for creating and deploying 3D Virtual Environments. It has been developed by several developers. Out of the box, the OpenSimulator can be used to create a Second Life(tm) like environment, able to run in a standalone mode or connected to other OpenSimulator instances through built in grid technology. It can also easily be extended to produce more specialized 3D interactive applications. Check out the list of growing features to get an idea of what OpenSimulator is capable of.


  • Tag Galaxy
    A global visualization of tagged flickr images...



  • Nielsen BuzzMetrics' BlogPulse
    BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is brought to you by Nielsen Online.


  • Technorati: Front Page
    Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of December 2007, Technorati indexes over 112 million weblogs.[1] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of li




  • Year End Reflections | 2¢ Worth
    What’s new is that these discoveries, by their own nature, caused a breathtaking loop of new discoveries, each leading to something else, just as dramatic. It began with Blogging, which I had been doing for nearly a year. However, when I started reading


  • Web 2.0 & Education Philosophy | 2¢ Worth
    I’m listening to a web presentation produced and made available by Ewan McIntosh. I kind’a like the style of his slides, reminding me a bit of some of Lessig’s presentations. I’m not sure it’s not distracting, but I’m certified A.D.D., so who


  • Maybe It doesn’t Matter | 2¢ Worth
    Yesterday, I wrote about social networks, and rather harshly claimed that I just don’t get it. Well maybe that just doesn’t matter. I talked about how children need clubhouses to play adult in, implying that their MySpace and Pizco pages were perhap


  • Working Toward Independence | 2¢ Worth
    I’ve been on the go pretty solidly since I left the Educon 2.0 conference in Philadelphia yesterday. I have to confess that I felt a bit odd, after engaging in idea building conversational sessions over the weekend, and then standing in front of severa


  • This is Cool! | 2¢ Worth
    I think that one of the coolest things about Personal Learning Networks is when they blossom into something interesting, useful, or funny. The later appeared yesterday when Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach published a list of statements shared by educators in her PL


  • Blogs as Personal Learning Networks (Techlearning blog)
    Are you a learning junkie? Can't get enough magazines and information about how to better do your job? Or, maybe the information you get just isn't personalized enough for you. Blogs as personal learning networks can change that and open you up to a whole




  • Suffern Middle School in Second Life
    This blog has seen many incarnations but strives to remain true to its original purpose: “A running account of the proposal, acquisition, develpment, and implementation of the virtual presence of Ramapo Central School District on the Teen Grid of Second Life”


  • Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
    Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can loo


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