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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. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659/in/photostream/ By courosa

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

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

  8. Let’s Set Up an Account

  9. Twitter Teacher

  10. 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

  11. Create Your Profile

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

  13. @mentions

  14. Retweets (RT)

  15. Direct Messages (DM)

  16. #hashtags

  17. Favorites: a way to file resources

  18. Twitter Search

  19. Finding Tweeps

  20. Shortening Your URL

  21. Top 21 Twitter Clients

  22. Tweet Deck

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

  24. 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 (you can check who I follow to start) • Follow and unfollow to tailor your PLN

  25. RSS Reader • RSS in Plain English

  26. Google Reader

  27. 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

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

  29. Wrap it up Already!! • Start small • Chill out Everything new is challenging, but this is worth it! • droman@geneva304.org Let me know if you have questions • @donnaroman follow me on twitter • Evaluations • CUDUs

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