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Kae Novak

Web 2.0, new literacies, and the idea of learning through participation - 2 views

www.eric.ed.gov/EJ869397.pdf

remix participatory learning Web 2.0 presence

shared by Kae Novak on 31 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • Kae Novak on 31 Aug 10
     
    This article reviews and synthesizes current practices and thoughts on how Web 2.0 allows for participatory/networked learning. It references Gee 2004's affinity spaces, Jenkins et al. 2006's participatory culture and Wenger 1998's communities of practices. I found the author's components of Web 2.0 spaces to be useful especially for whenever I may need to explain the essentials of a social network. These components were listed as presence, modification, user-generated content and social participation. I also found the author's use of the DJ metaphor to explain re-appropriation and remixing of content to be helpful.
glorihinck

Creating a Personal Learning Network with Web 2.0 Tools - 2 views

sites.google.com/...buildingapln

PLN social learning network Web2.0 tools

shared by glorihinck on 31 Aug 10 - Cached
  • glorihinck on 31 Aug 10
     
    Visit this presentation website to learn how educators can use Web 2.0 tools to communicate and collaborate with peers and learn about some of the newest tools teachers are using to support their own professional learning goals. Contains links to a number of PLN resources.
jodie hale

5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network - 2 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...an-do-to-begin-developing.html

Personal Learning Network Education

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  • jodie hale on 31 Aug 10
     
    This is a really good blog on how to start developing your own PLN. The blog suggests 5 steps to follow to get started and offers some websites to visit. At the end, the blogger provides additional resources if needed.
  • Jamey Robbins on 31 Aug 10
     
    I really like this blog that you found. The clip has some great inside on PLN. My favorite part of this blog is that the steps to get started on developing a PLN are simple yet detailed enough to make sense and there are several resources listed.
tsurridge

Want to be a great teacher? Don't go to PD. - 6 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...eat-teacher-dont-go-to-pd.html

PLN Professional Development Technology

shared by tsurridge on 06 Sep 10 - Cached
  • tsurridge on 06 Sep 10
     
    I have led professional development, and shaped a series of professional development classes, to assist teachers in the adoption of one to one laptop programs. Saying that, I couldn't agree with this blog post more. The dynamic change in resource for teachers, and the ever shifting landscape of technology, makes many teachers feel a sense of frustration in attempting to get a handle on what's "out there". This post articulates, and I believe my experience validates, that the answer to engaging these issues does not lie in more and more professional development, but rather, assisting teachers in the creation of their own learning networks for both support and guidance. PLN's are not only more effectual, professional development is expensive. I brought someone in to help our teachers establish personal PLN's, but I don't believe I properly considered how important this was to the process. As I'm quickly learning, PLN creation and engagement may well be at the foundation of any school transformation. ts
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  • Dennis Lecker on 06 Sep 10
     
    In 13 years of teaching, I remember only one PD that was worth its salt. The gathering included a presentation pertaining to the use Microsoft Excel to organize various educational particulars. However, on the other hand, that we then acquired GradeQuick, EasyGradePro, and finally another grading program rendered any and all information acquired during the PD moot. I did use Excel, however, to organize data related to my other job, that having been the management a large private club along the lines of a Moose, Elks or Legion. But getting back to the link, I have to admit that I was very amused at the attached video which showed two professionals trapped on an escalator. The situation brought to mind a quote from Robert Pirsig when he wrote: "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away." … In summary, that most PDs are constructed from detached administrators who have lost touch with what is actually occuring "on the ground" may be partly responsible with the author's dislike of PDs. ...Regarding assisting teachers in the creation of their own learning networks, I can point to a wonderful article on the benefits of having "exemplary" teachers in a school. http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss2/seminal/article1.htm
  • Lisa Dawley on 06 Sep 10
     
    >>As I'm quickly learning, PLN creation and engagement may well be at the foundation of any school transformation. This was one of those "wow" statements for me, and really hit home. I'm currently in Australia finishing up some PD in online curriculum design with a group of really talented teachers at MLC School. While I'm not ready to throw out live PD (we learned and did so much in 3 days!), your sentence caused me to reflect on the importance of teacher education programs and schools helping teachers learn how to establish a successful PLN that meets their needs. Love it...thanks for helping me to refocus with this simple and powerful statement.
  • Eric Ebbs on 07 Sep 10
     
    At first I laughed at the video on the page because I thought it was funny that the people were unwilling to move without the assistance of others until I realized that at one time I was one of the people on the escalator. I believed strongly in learning from PD and did not have many contacts or connections. It was through those PD sessions though, I was able to begin building a PLN. I was able to acquire email addresses and phone numbers from members attending, and they were able to give me access to links, listservs, web blogs, etc. to increase my knowledge. I have access to free PD when available through my PLN. I'm not quite ready to give up my PD, as I still glean useful information and contacts from my sessions to add to my PLN. I believe that PD should be used to enchance your PLN and allow you more opportunities. The PLN should not be the end of PD either. Both should be available to allow users to expand their knowlege.
  • aeckel on 08 Sep 10
     
    What a great visual of such a helpless attitude that schools and teachers can have! It was interesting for me to read how PD can be a lazy approach to professional knowledge. I had never quite thought of it that way before but it makes sense. It is knowledge that is handed to you rather then knowledge that is discovered. In a lot of my EdTech courses I have learned that learning is done best when there is some form of personal interaction. It makes sense that PLNs are a better way of motivating and learning. I really enjoyed this article and love seeing visuals like this that connect to a bigger concept. Powerful stuff!
  • glorihinck on 09 Sep 10
     
    Timothy, what are your thoughts on the future of PLN's at your workplace? What can you do to help guide the process? Perhaps a final project could be be related to this topic?
  • tsurridge on 09 Sep 10
     
    If I were to be honest (and I guess, why not), I would like to develop professional development that would assist learners toward meaningful understanding and engagement of PLN's. For me, the missing link is the PLE. I'm still grappling with that myself. What should my computer screen look like? I get your dingo's, the elephant head thing, tweetering, et al. I still struggle with a mental picture of how my new computer screen looks. What exactly is going on there? I think that is step one in this. Somehow. I'm going to figure this out. Somehow. And yes, I get the irony of posting a PD is dead reflection-and than wanting to create PD. Kind of not functionally getting it.....still missing something visually.....hmmmmm.....(love the process though:)..... ts
  • glorihinck on 12 Sep 10
     
    Timothy, I am confident that by the end of the term you will have a handle on this brave new world- including your computer screen.
johnericshelton

Chris Smith's PLN - 3 views

www.shambles.net/...index.htm

social Network PLN

shared by johnericshelton on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • johnericshelton on 02 Sep 10
     
    This is a page that a teacher used to map out his own personal PLN. It's apparent why he named his site "Shambles" and I'm always a bit wary of any self-professed "gurus" but the fact that this guy took the time and effort to map out his full digital footprint and then publicly share it is pretty incredible. His network includes most of the usual suspects as well as a lot of resources and sites that I've never heard of. There's even an entire subsection based entirely around Second Life.
  • Kae Novak on 03 Sep 10
     
    I actually follow Shambles on twitter. His website isn't elegant, but he's well known in the SL community as someone who uses his website as a resource aggregator. He is also one of the organizers of the Second Life College Fair.
Libby Cody

Interesting Blog with many relevant topics - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...social_networking

learning social Network education knowledge

shared by Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10
     
    Andy Carvin is the host of this PBS blog that covers everything from the extent to which teachers are obligated to police the social networks to a student nearly being expelled for administering a facebook study group for his college course. The posts were thought provoking as were some of the responses.
glorihinck

Online Social Networks course - 2 views

www.ibiblio.org/...Main_Page

shared by glorihinck on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • glorihinck on 28 Aug 10
     
    Check out this course described as a primer on the study of online social networks that is taught using a wiki and a Facebook group.
Kae Novak

A Social Capital Perspective on Professional Learning Communities: Linking Social Netwo... - 2 views

utwente.academia.edu/...lNetworksAndTrust_Academia.pdf

social network PLC trust capital

shared by Kae Novak on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Kae Novak on 04 Oct 10
     
    I choose this article because I'm looking for a discussion of how PLCs and PLEs are different. While I think it may be more about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, this did allow me to read more about how social capital plays a role in PLCs.
Justin Reeve

OpenScholar - 2 views

openscholar.harvard.edu/home

drupal social education network learning networks

shared by Justin Reeve on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 04 Oct 10
     
    A full-featured web site-creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything themselves (for free)
Justin Reeve

Eduglu - Drupal Social Learning Platform - 1 views

eduglu.com

drupal learning social education network networks

shared by Justin Reeve on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 04 Oct 10
     
    Eduglu helps learners connect with one another and form learning communities. Eduglu provides online spaces for groups to learn together. Our social learning platform ships with a number of powerful social learning applications including discussion boards with full email integration (like Google Groups), polls, wikis, and many more. And because it's built on the powerful open source CMS Drupal, creating your own custom learning tools is easy. With Eduglu, it will become extremely easy for anyone to share information throughout your organization. Your learners will use it to post insights, point to good content, ask questions, and tell their fellow learners what they're working on, what they're seeing, and what they're learning.
Ann Randall

Demo: Creating CMS Content in LibreOffice - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

CMS LMS HTML web-content learning education blog wiki networks social Ning

shared by Ann Randall on 09 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Ann Randall on 09 Oct 10
     
    A couple of years ago I stumbled across this method of formatting text for closed web-based LMSs such as Blackboard or Sakai. I finally got around to creating a screencast. I'm sharing this here as this method is also useful for creating content for social network tools such as blogs or wikis. It isn't a substitute for learning HTML, but it's a quick and easy procedure that works as well as a lot of WYSIWYG editors.
Lora Evanouski

Glass - 2 views

www.writeonglass.com

social network PLC

shared by Lora Evanouski on 24 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Lora Evanouski on 24 Oct 10
     
    Glass is a browser add-on that lets you share experiences and not just content.
  • Dianne Rees on 05 Nov 10
     
    Lot's of potential for creating learning experiences and very easy to use
  • Lisa Dawley on 08 Nov 10
     
    Nice! Chris Haskell just shared a similar tool last week (can't recall name, maybe writeon?) that let's you write or drawn on any webpage, as well as make notes. This tool seems to have more advanced social networking features, however.
Lisa Dawley

Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge | Technology Enhanced Knowledge... - 1 views

tekri.athabascau.ca/...onments-networks-and-knowledge

PLE pln siemens downes kop

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  • Lisa Dawley on 28 Sep 10
     
    Open Course through Athabasca University
Libby Cody

Open vs. Closed PLC in Art Education - 1 views

picasaweb.google.com/...RaHjJJ6R93QQZrFWP1l7gOsp5miPno

learning network education PLC

shared by Libby Cody on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Libby Cody on 13 Oct 10
     
    I chose to use Art Education to examine an open and a closed PLC. The open was a social network learning community I have mentioned before- Art Snacks
Justin Reeve

50 Excellent Online Communities for Lifelong Learners - Learn-gasm - 0 views

www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/...munities-for-lifelong-learners

social learning network networks

shared by Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10
     
    Whether you are looking for a little added information on what you are already studying in school or would like to connect with others who share your interests as a business professional or avid hobbyist, these online communities all offer an excellent opportunity to continue your search for knowledge. From reading to learning a new language to becoming a financial wizard to travel to saving the Earth, these groups offer a chance for learning as well as reaching out to others online.
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