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Andrew Barras

5 Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) for Educators | MindShift - 1 views

  • Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that’s especially true for educators.
  • That’s why working with other educators in personal learning networks (PLNs) has become as important in an educator’s day as the time he or she spends teaching in class. Below is a short list of PLNs that already exist, followed by some resources to help teachers build their own
  • The Educator’s PLN is a Ning site (or online platform for creating your own social network) that facilitates connections between educators.
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  • Powerful Learning Practice is a professional development program for progressive-minded educators. Its year-long curriculum provides cohorts of teachers with new ideas and hands-on practice in order to bolster their tech knowledge and aptitudes, rethink classroom activities to make them relevant for today’s students, find other teachers with similar goals, and build their own tech-rich learning tools.
  • Classroom 2.0 is designed for those interested in sharing ideas and resources about using Web 2.0 and new media in education.
  • These Edublog and WeConnect posts, both compiled by teacher and blogger Shelly Terrell, present a pretty exhaustive, multimedia-rich list that allows teachers to explore what a PLN is, why they should care, the research behind it, and step-by-step instructions on how to build one.
  • edWeb.net is a free online social network that lets educators connect with colleagues, collaborate on goals and projects, form their own professional learning communities, mentor one another, and practice using a slew of new technologies.
  • Resources for Building or Finding Your Own
  • EdChat began as a Twitter conversation for educators and has now expanded to a PBworks wiki that encourages the ideas spawned on Twitter that translate to practical advice. To get involved in EdChat on Twitter, search for the hashtag #edchat and join in the conversation.
  • For an even bigger list of online teacher networks, visit EducationalNetworking.com’s master list.
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    Great list for learning how to build your PLN
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    Check out the goodness!
Tereza Vieira

Twiducate.com - Social Networking For Schools - 0 views

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    Twiducate is a free platform for creating your own micro social network in a Twitter-like format. Twiducate allows you to create a private network for posting assignments and messages to your students or other people you invite into your network.
Heather Torres

15 Tools for Developing a Learning Network: Creating an Online Personal Network to Supp... - 1 views

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    Tools for creating a Personal Learning Network.
Tereza Vieira

Facebook Rumored to be Partnering with Baidu to Launch New, Separate Social Network in ... - 1 views

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    "Several China-based publications are reporting that Facebook has signed a deal with Chinese internet search giant Baidu to create a special social network for China. Facebook's is blocked by the Chinese government, so the rumors indicate that the company will create a new social network especially for Chinese market of 500 million internet users, and that this site won't be integrated with Facebook."
Don Rogozinski

Resources for Growing Your Professional Learning Network | Edutopia - 1 views

  • In a recent survey, Teachers Network found that 80 percent of teachers said network participation encouraged them to remain in the classroom, while 90 percent said that networking improved their teaching practice.
Tereza Vieira

First Poster for David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK - 0 views

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    "The Social Network, to be launched next October, stars Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, and Andrew Garfield and is based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires, which about the creation of Facebook. "
Tereza Vieira

Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking Project - Application Developmen... - 3 views

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    Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking Project
Tereza Vieira

Google Traffic Now Accounts for Record 6.4% of All Internet - 0 views

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    A new report from network security firm Arbor Networks says that all Google sites together now account for 6.4 percent of all Internet traffic. That sets a record and marks a full percentage point increase since the beginning of the year.
Tereza Vieira

Farmville helped Facebook beat Orkut - 1 views

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    " The phenomenal popularity of Orkut, which made terms like 'social networking' part of common lingo, is well documented. However, in May this year, Facebook beat Orkut as the top social networking destination in India. Mumbai-based agency Komli Media's Vizisense, which tracks web audience measurement in India, has now come out with some answers to how Zuckerberg's creation triumphed over the Google-owned Orkut."
Sue Bedard

How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Why should schools encourage all this sharing and meeting? Schools should reflect the world we live in today. And we live in a social world. We need to teach students how to be effective collaborators in that world, how to interact with people around them, how to be engaged, informed twenty-first-century citizens.
  • academic networking
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    good information to bring to administration
Tereza Vieira

Lady Gaga to launch social network for celebrities - 0 views

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    "Lady Gaga will help build a social network for entertainers and other celebrities. "
Tereza Vieira

The Facebooks of China | Fast Company - 0 views

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    A great article on the current and future status of social networking and interactive entertainment in China.
Tereza Vieira

Lady Gaga World Domination Update: A New App With an Eye on Social Networking Celebs | ... - 0 views

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    "The app makers SkyGrid, formerly focused on personalized news, now turn to social networking. "
Tereza Vieira

Facebook Drives US Social Network Ad Spending Past $3 Billion in 2011 - eMarketer - 1 views

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    "Social network advertising to account for 10.8% of online market"
John Reneski

Social Networking in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - 0 views

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    This is a great site for pre made videos!
Tereza Vieira

Indonesia: Twitter nation - 2 views

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    Which country would you guess is most addicted to Twitter? Would it surprise you to learn the answer is... Indonesia? The microblogging nation is also the world's fourth largest user of Facebook. Sara Sidner looks at how its people use social networks to rally support for social and political causes.
Andrew Barras

Personal Learning Networks Video - The Educator's PLN - 1 views

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    Good video about PLNs
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    That's great!
Charles Everett

Creating a Personal Learning Network with Web 2.0 Tools (Building a PLN) - 3 views

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    site with personal learning networking links
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    Lots of great links to helpful hints on Twitter, Diigo and more
Tereza Vieira

Is Facebook Becoming the Whole World's Social Network? | Technomix | Fast Company - 1 views

  • Facebook's growth
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      That is a cool article thanks!
Andrew Barras

Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Unveils iPad SDK And New Ad Formats - 0 views

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