Warlick's CoLearners
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Personal Learning Networks
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There is nothing new about personal learning networks. They are the people and information sources that help you accomplish your goals, either on the job or in your personal pursuits. They are the teachers who work in your school, your instructional supervisor, your library media specialist, the art teacher at the high school, which whom you are friends, the magazines you subscribe to, books you brought home from college, etc.
Today, however, new techniques for organizing digital networked information, have enabled us to fashion new kinds of networks that extend far beyond our immediate location and face-to-face connections, and to grow our networks based not on explicit decisions, but through the ideas of other nodes (people and resources), whose ideas intersect with ours.
Aspects of PLN Planned for this Presentation or Workshop
Web 2.0 -- These new extendable and hyper-connectable networks are made possible by recent advances in how we organize and use information. These new tools have popularly been labeled as Web 2.0. They include blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS, and much much more.
Finding Nodes -- There are techniques for finding people and resources worth of your connections. They include, but are not limited to, socially maintained lists of bloggers and other resources, blogging search engines, news searches, and social media sites.
Sticky Content -- Managing your PLN is at the heart of its usefulness, and many people maintain their networks through RSS Readers -- literally training the valuable content to come to them.
Social Networks -- Our students are adept at personal learning networks. The primary node points are within their social networks (i.e., Facebook, MySpace, Beebo). Educators are exploring ways of using these networks for instructionally productive purposes.
Virtual Worlds -- Sometimes called MUVEs, these are places on the Internet where people can meet and work together, regardless of geography. Many educators consider their Second Life avatar as their primary node point for their PLN.
Mining the Conversation -- One of the most potent techniques for learn from PLNs is using a number of inventive techniques to mine the vast conversation that is emerged on the Internet -- learning from people, with whom you are not directly connected, through their blogs, tweets, or even their Flickr photos.
Other Tools -- Conferencing with people is part of the power of our new networks, and free tools for text, audio, and even video conferencing are increasingly available to us all.
For more information on these aspects, refer to the Concept Map
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