The Art & Technique of Personal Learning Networks

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Introduction:

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As we work in a time of rapid change, with students who are digital natives, from within a dramatically new information landscape, the best description of the 21st Century teacher is Master Learner. Participants in this presentation will learn how to utilize a variety of new web-based applications to construct and cultivate personal learning networks. Educators will learn to attract information from other professional educators, experts in the fields of study, current news and news searches, student perspective, relevant resources from a growing library of web-based digital content, and other content sources to assist them in adapting to this age of change.

Session Outline

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  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. List of Bloggers from Support Blogging -- http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
      3. Technorati Blog Search Engine -- http://technorati.com/
      4. Google Blog Search -- http://blogsearch.google.com/
      5. 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/
      6. News
        1. Most News Sources NY Times, CNN, BBC, & PBS
        2. News Searchers Google News,
      7. 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/

This page will list weblogs that mention personal, learning, network, and warlick. If you will be blogging a review or simply sharing your insights about the ideas of this session, please include the words personal, learning, network and warlick in the text of the article.

  • David Warlick at Summer Symposium 2008
    The second session I attended was called “Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network.” At the heart of his presentation was RSS (Really Simple Syndication). By utilizing RSS, you can subscribe to Internet content and have the updates ...



  • Picture of My Personal Learning Network
    Well, the people are in the cloud, and there is no message in that ;-) I know that some think of the individuals in their personal learning network. I just can’t do that. There are too many. I see the network as a community, ...



  • 20 Minutes with Warlick
    He affirmed that we’re basically forming a personal learning community (PLC), a trend that’s happening across the nation and that this is a good starting point. I explained our group we’ll be meeting for a second time in about two weeks ...


  • 10 Ways to Keep your PLN from Running Amok!
    However, it is easy to feel that your personal learning network/social network is becoming a NASA Control Center. For that matter, we can easily come to feel that we’re trying to land our students on the moon. ...



  • Stages of PLN adoption
    I believe there is also a correlation here with learning. As you immerse yourself into the network your learning increases, the more you learn, the more you want to learn, the more immersed you become within the network. ...



  • Some insights NECC & the Freedom Center
    Last note - I’m counting on the members of my personal learning network to interact with me and push me toward making a difference. While that seems to be the mantra of the NeXt/Millenial generation, this Baby Boomer is serious!!


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