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Networking Online for Professional Development

Networking Online for Professional Development. Marian Thacher mthacher@otan.us. How has the Web changed in the last 5 years?. Easy to create a Web site Anyone can have a blog Comment on each other’s blog posts, photos, videos, bookmarks

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Networking Online for Professional Development

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  1. Networking Onlinefor Professional Development Marian Thacher mthacher@otan.us

  2. How has the Web changed in the last 5 years? • Easy to create a Web site • Anyone can have a blog • Comment on each other’s blog posts, photos, videos, bookmarks • “Watch” what other people are doing, thinking, reading, talking about • Your network now includes “strangers”! (and strangers are not so strange)

  3. What is a Social Networking Site? • A Web site that allows users to connect, communicate and/or share information with each other By Moonjazz, http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/651498439/

  4. Examples of Social Networking • Email Lists • Blogs, Miniblogs, Microblogs • Delicious, Diigo • Facebook, MySpace. LinkedIn • Google Groups, Ning • Flickr, YouTube, TeacherTube • RSS, Google Reader • LibraryThing, Shelfari From premiardeigo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/9119028@N05/591163479/

  5. Your Personal Learning Network • Think about how you learn new things • ? • ? • Think about how you learned things 10 yrs ago • ? • ? • Any differences?

  6. Your Personal Learning Network • 235 million searches a day on Google • 75% of people go to information directly from their search results, NOT from the home page of a site

  7. Your Personal Learning Network • Example of Stephen Downes www.downes.ca • Saw references several years ago • Followed him on Twitter and Facebook • Received interesting links and references • Went to his blog and signed up for his newsletter • Posted on my blog about him and he responded • Now he is definitely in my PLN, and he notes that he actually came up with the concept!

  8. Your Personal Learning Network “Information has always been a conversation, it’s just that most of us weren’t part of it, until the Internet.” --Steve Hargadon www.stevehargadon.com

  9. David Warlick’s PLN http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

  10. Supervisors Prof. Groups Students Friends Colleagues Lesson Plans Articles Work-shops Parenting Class Activities Reports My PLN 10 Years ago Conferences Classes Site Workshops Journals Books Web Pages Teacher Coordinator Presenter Mom

  11. My PLN Now Supervisors Prof. Groups Colleagues Online Network Friends Blogs Social Networks Listservs Podcasts Aggregators Twitter Journals Books Web Pages Conferences Classes Site Workshops Administrator Presenter Blogger Grandma Web site Articles Blogs Grand-parenting Work-shops Reports

  12. Viral Professional Development • We learn on our own with support from each other • You don’t need a large training staff – just a few enthusiastic early adopters • Build a network! • Share everything – tape it, blog it, tag it, post it • Celebrate and get the word out up and down the food chain

  13. Viral Professional Development • Jennifer Jones, Injenuity.com • http://injenuity.com/archives/66 • A viral post on viral PD

  14. Email Lists, or Listservs PROs • Easy to access • Comes to you (push) • Access to a wider community • Get answers to your questions CONs • Too much email • Not all of interest • Public in ways you might not realize

  15. Email Lists, or Listservs • NIFL lists (ESL, Family Literacy, Tech, Assessment) • Adult Numeracy Network • National Literacy Advocacy • Tech Mentor Network • Start your own? Ask OTAN

  16. Blogs • What is a blog? • Go to the Wiki

  17. Wikis • What is a wiki? • Go to the wiki http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/

  18. Can you use these? • Are you blogging? • Are you using a wiki? • How might you use either for professional development?

  19. Bookmarking and Tagging • How you save sites now • Bookmarking • Tagging • Tag clouds • Go to the wiki (my Delicious account) (my diigo account)

  20. When I say Social Networking… • What’s the first thing that comes to mind?

  21. “Traditional” Social Networking • MySpace – OBT example • Facebook – Becoming very popular with “older” users • 500 groups related to ESL! • Yahoo Groups From mattkeefe - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/

  22. New Social Networking • A list of social network sites for education • English teachers in Mexico • Classroom 2.0 • CATESOL State Swap 2009 • Go to the wiki

  23. Sharing Media • Flickr • YouTube • TeacherTube • Ustream • Go to the wiki

  24. Sharing Books • Shelfari • LibraryThing From Phil Moore - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/

  25. Keeping up with your network • Aggregators, Feeds • My Yahoo • Google Reader • Jaiku, Friendfeed, SocialThing • Go to the wiki

  26. GO FORTH AND CONNECT!

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