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Twitter as a Personal Learning Network - 4 views

whatsnewintheworld.net/...twitter-as-a-pln Twitter PLN Networking
shared by keefe67 on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • keefe67 on 06 Sep 10
     
    This article was useful to me because I have recently started to use Twitter in my own classroom as a way to get information out to other teachers as well as a tool for me to find other resources. The questions that this article presented for me are how many teachers out there use Twitter? I am constantly trying to find data to support my use, just in case the principal gets a nasty email or phone call about it. I have had nothing but positive thoughts from parents on the use of Twitter, but that could change is the wrong person found out. I have actually became a little more at ease since reading this article. I now have a good resource to finding other links on Twitter and this is something that I can show my principal to support the use of Twitter.
  • Brenda Janot on 15 Sep 10
     
    Keefe, This article was useful because it demystified the Personal Learning Network (PLN) usefulness for educational purposes. Some of the questions that the article prompted for me was how to utilize Twitter. I especially enjoyed reading about how Twitter was used for professional research networking. I feel that short tweets can lead to ground breaking theories that have not been presented on the internet. I also noted that there were 38 blog posts for this article. Thanks for sharing your insights. Brenda Janot
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Twitter for Teachers YouTube video - 5 views

www.youtube.com/watch PLN Tina Jackson
shared by anonymous on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Sep 10
     
    I just learned two valuable lessons…one write your work outside of the textboxes and save it because your computer may freeze and you'll lose your work…how many times have I told my online students this, yet I did the same mistake?! Secondly, develop a system of finding the same resource over again. Perhaps save it in your favorites or copy and paste the link somewhere… I spent 15 minutes trying to refind my resource. Grrr. Back to the purpose of this post...This video link provided a summary of how teachers can use a PLN such as Twitter to "stream" information for use in their classrooms. You can take what you like or let the information float by knowing that more information always comes down the stream. It provides a simple visual example of using PLN. Much of the information contained in the video has already been stated throughout our Diigo group, but I chose it because I liked how it summarized PLNs. I actually used my newly established Twitter account to find this resource. I typed "Personal Learning Networks" into the search field , scanned through the posts that were in English, found one with "teachers" in the title, which is my interest and reviewed the resource posted. I liked the resource and felt I should share it with my Boise peers. From this point, I can read further into the topic by clicking on related links or I can explore the person's profile that provided the link to get to know the source. However, I chose to take the information and move on in the interest of time. Perfect!
  • keefe67 on 06 Sep 10
     
    I love this video! I posted an article about Twitter before I watched this video, now I have even more information I can bring back to my principal to support the use of Twitter. Thanks for posting this!
  • Stephen Lazowski on 07 Sep 10
     
    I like the link. I like how descriptive it is, and it gives an interesting introduction. In my last class, (522) I did a web cast presentation on how to use twitter effectively for teaching purposes. This video validates a lot of my research on the use of twitter in education. There are so many cool social media outlets, I wonder what the next "biggest thing" will be? The presenter's English accent threw me at first, but then I envied his brogue.
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"Where do you learn?":Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Developmet - 1 views

www.educause.edu/...163852 Social Learning
shared by tsurridge on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • tsurridge on 28 Aug 10
     
    I somewhat facetiously posted in my class introduction that I would not be "tweetered". I felt it only fair that I should begin my study on a topic for which I have distrust. This article did present an interesting and creative use of Twitter. The applicationn provided the means to accurately record data by having subjects record actions in real time (by tweeting). This gives the observer more accurate information, as there is no need for the subject to recall and reconstruct occurrences from memory. This research was directed toward a broader end of understanding the role of informal learning, the authors called these "learnscapes" as opposed to classroom learning. The lingering impression for me is the creativity in which technology is being applied in support of the redefinition and understanding of learning. It's why I believe this is actually one of the most interesting times to be an educator.
  • glorihinck on 30 Aug 10
     
    Timothy, glad to see you start your study with Twitter :) I agree with you- this is an interesting application of Twitter for educational purposes. I can also see some possible spin offs that could be used in my institutional setting. We have students who are off campus all over the world during their last term of chiropractic school. Perhaps they could Twitter about what patient conditions they treat each day and post links to where they found information supporting evidence-based practice for those conditions.
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Facebook | Messages - Twitter List for Virtual World Educators - 4 views

www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1405060853104 twitter facebook messages virtual worlds
shared by Lisa Dawley on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Lisa Dawley on 08 Oct 10
     
    I thought this was an interesting example of how to use the "list" functionality of Twitter to create a professional learning community for people interested in virtual worlds. Note they recommend Hootsuite and Tweetdeck for organizing your Twitter account. I use both of these and find they help.
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TweetEffect- When did you lose or gain twitter followers? - 5 views

www.tweeteffect.com/index.php twitter effect followers
shared by Lisa Dawley on 19 Sep 10 - Cached
  • johnericshelton on 21 Sep 10
     
    I've used a similar web service called Qwitter (http://useqwitter.com/). It requires you to create an account but you can set it up to email you when you lose a follower and you can even identify what your last tweet was before someone quit following you.
  • Lisa Dawley on 21 Sep 10
     
    Qwitter? lol I also found TweetReach http://tweetreach.com/ and thought it gave some interesting data on the extent of your outreach.
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A Twitteraholic's Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter | The Edublogger - 1 views

theedublogger.com/...ashtags-and-all-things-twitter
shared by johnericshelton on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • johnericshelton on 04 Oct 10
     
    Knowing the right hashtags can be like knowing a secret password that lets you explore other people's PLNs, while also getting your own content out and in front of some extra eyeballs. I'd never heard of most of these teacher-related hashtags so these should be a useful way to expand a PLN.
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dlvr.it - 1 views

app.dlvr.it social network networking facebook twitter rss
shared by Justin Reeve on 11 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 11 Dec 12
     
    Automatically post stuff from one social network to others.
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Virtual Englightenment - 2 views

www.informaworld.com/...content~db=all
shared by Dennis Lecker on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Dennis Lecker on 01 Sep 10
     
    This excellent article examined the manner in which students of the 18th century enlightenment constructed a virtual reconstruction of various discussion venues in 18th century London. Having completed such a project allowed the students to gain insight into the manner in which social networking has been with us for quite some time and has been responsible for revolutionary associations. The authors suggest that the current climate of social networks may stimulate a similar dynamism in that the previous coffee shops, chocolate shops, pubs and taverns where great ideas were exchanged are now being replaced by chatrooms, Wikis and social websites, such as Facebook or Twitter.
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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.
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Librarians Who Lead - 0 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx librarians DistrictAdministration
shared by anonymous on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of investing in scads of state-of-the-art computers and expensive commercially produced courseware, she says, the school district has made a remarkable investment in the high school’s human resources.
  • Luhtala and other members of the high school’s Information and Communication Technology team have woven Moodle, the free, open-source, online course management software, into the curriculum.
  • We have six years’ worth of analysis of annotated bibliographies, which we consider the hallmark of higher-order thinking— evaluation of reading, as opposed to regurgitation.
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  • there was an improvement on the annual Connecticut Academic Performance Test.”
  • “We work with a fair amount of data to measure student learning in information and communication technology. We also rely on emerging technology to communicate and collaborate with students and teachers.”
  • The library media center’s home page entices students, teachers and parents to click on a colorful lineup of icons familiar to everyone who enjoys connecting via social media: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, and VoiceThread, which the library has been using to promote book chats and reading for pleasure. Luhtala also regularly posts instructional videos on the Web for students and teachers.
  • “A librarian today is a facilitator and a leader for the teachers, for curricular learning, for interdisciplinary instruction, and is also a professional development person,” Luhtala says. “But we’re still school-based teachers. And it’s actually kind of beautiful. We like it just that way.”
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Which social network should I use as a librarian? - 0 views

www.philb.com/...whichsocialnetwork2.htm social network librarian
shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Which social network should I use as a librarian?
  • I've already hinted at this, but it's time to be more specific. My online contacts are now the way in which I get my information. They (or probably you) are constantly sending me a stream of useful stuff, which is personalized to my interests, based on my choices of who to follow, and who to pay attention to. So this isn't 'social' in the way that we're used to thinking of it, it's a hugely influential stream of data. If I follow you, you influence me, and if you follow me, I'm influencing you. It may be simply because the tweets or links are funny or interesting, or they match my personal interests.
  • My RSS feeds are similarly hugely important to me. My feeds and the information there, drawn from blogs, searches, profile pages and the like are not there for me to read every single one - that way would lie insanity. They are there to alert me to news that I'm likely to find important. Any one of those blogs or posts or tweets are saying 'this is happening, go check it out' with the important link. I don't need to read everything that each of my contacts has said (although sometimes I do, if I want lots of different views and opinions), because they're all pointing me to the source, and I can go off there and read what I need.
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  • The amount of data that's flooding out is truly daunting, and if I didn't have a social network - or rather, several of them, I simply wouldn't be able to cope. My filters are no longer based on the magazines that I read, or the evening news, they're based on the people that I follow. Now, this is really important I think, because what it does is links me into particular communities. The data I am served is important, but the community is increasingly valuable.
  • This is why - as librarians - we need to be involved in as many social networks as we possibly can. By doing this we're absolutely doing our professional job - we're helping to create and maintain communities - and it doesn't matter if that's a workplace community, a community based on geography or one that's based on specific content. We have to consider how to curate data within this social media environment, and I'll look at that in more detail later. Secondly, we're acting as authority filters. I know that when I get a tweet about a subject it's going to be good quality. I don't have the same trust with something like Google, or pretty much any other search engine. There are exceptions to this rule, since search engines are beginning to inject Facebook data into the SERPs, but in general, I'll trust people a lot more than I'll trust a computer. And - when it comes down to it, I'm going to trust a librarian more than just about anyone else.
  • By using social media it's much easier to get the information that you need quickly and effectively by asking a question in the right format. I couldn't remember who wrote the piece which I've now attributed to Woodsiegirl, but I had the answer within seconds from several different sources by tweeting the question.
  • The point however is that often we don't know we're in specific groups, but we can nonetheless play very important roles. Just because you don't think you're important doesn't actually mean that you're not. I really want to push this point once more before moving on. In my experience librarians do not often think they are that important, and they don't value their skills as highly as they should. Please do consider the value that you can give to others within your social networks - even when you're doubtful that you do give value!
  • The more that librarians do - NOW - with social media, the more that we're going to already be embedded into the social medium. The more contacts, friends, links, tweets, photographs, likes, +1's that we have, the more influential we can become. The more influential we are, the more people will link to what we're doing, the more we'll be working in networks of influence and the more useful we can be to people."
  • This can all be neatly summarized with the phrase that I use all the time 'go to where the conversations are'. We all know that users of library services are physically using them less, so we need to really utilise social to keep in contact with them. But it's more than that. We need to show them - by using social media how valuable contact with us can be. The more value we can provide, the more likely our work is going to filter up and down the information chain. People are increasingly taking the view that if news is important, it will find them. For many people - particularly younger users, 'checking the news' means looking on Facebook because for them, the 'news' is what they see, read have shared with them, and share with others. Similiarly, I share my information via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, my blog, LinkedIn and so on. It doesn't just get posted onto my site. We can't do that any longer. At the end of this article I've put up a quick poll - I'm really interested to see how YOU found this article. It's one question, and will take about 5 seconds to answer.
  • This new way of providing content and added value is not going to sit happily with traditional users of media - even if they think that they have made the leap into the internet. The traditional CEO, publishers of books, magazines and other print material, traditional authors, advertisers, press and publicity directors are not going to flourish. If we, as librarians think that we've got it bad, it's as nothing in comparison to those folks.
  • The main difference is that we know we have to change and adapt or we'll die.
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