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Creating your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

Creating your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Using twitter and RSS feeders. We all have a PLN who is in yours now?. Who is in your learning network? Who do you learn from on a regular basis? Who do you turn to for your own professional development?. PLN Basics.

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Creating your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

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  1. Creating your Personal Learning Network (PLN) Using twitter and RSS feeders

  2. We all have a PLN who is in yours now? • Who is in your learning network? • Who do you learn from on a regular basis? • Who do you turn to for your own professional development?

  3. PLN Basics • What is a digital PLN? • How would that help me? • How do I create one? Twitter Really Simple Syndicate (RSS)

  4. Pull Technology

  5. Digital Networking • Connect • Contribute • Converse • Request • Be Patient • Be Authentic

  6. Totally Individualized • Subject matter • Grade • Topic or interest No one knows everything about anything, but a lot of people know something

  7. Let’s Set Up an Account

  8. Twitter Teacher

  9. Twitter Set Up • Confirm your account through your email • Create your profile • Privacy settings • Separating work and personal twitter • Using your real name and photo for professional use

  10. Create Your Profile

  11. The Lingo • @mentions • Retweets • DM direct message • Using #hashtags

  12. @mentions

  13. Retweets (RT)

  14. Direct Messages (DM)

  15. #hashtags

  16. Favorites: a way to file resources

  17. Twitter Search

  18. Finding Tweeps

  19. Shortening Your URL

  20. Top 21 Twitter Clients

  21. Tweet Deck

  22. Twitter Etiquette • http://heidicohen.com/twitter-etiquette/

  23. Find Some People to Follow • Your address book to find people you know • Hash tags # to find interests • Look at people associated with someone you resonate with @donnaroman • Follow and unfollow to tailor your PLN

  24. RSS Reader • RSS in Plain English

  25. Google Reader

  26. Set up Your Reader • Create a google account • Click on Reader • Start with 3-5 blogs to follow • Let’s start finding blogs Edublog 2011 winners

  27. In order to teach students about the power of social networking by learning to: • Navigate • Be safe • Leverage their participation • Act ethically • Use effectively We have to understand it ourselves They are already engaged in networking, but there are not many people teaching them

  28. So, what did you end up with? Pull Technology of • New ideas • Latest research • Articles • Accumulation • Collaboration • Partners

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