Personal learning network

Personal Learning Network

Connect, Collaborate, Contribute

Organizing

EverNote – Save ideas, things you hear and see; app on smart phone or on your computer

Animoto – Online photo slideshow with music, video; share professional presentation with friends and parents

Prezi – Presentation tool which zooms; frames and groups ideas

Diigo – Social Bookmarking; share bookmarks with friends and colleagues

Have You Tried?

http://www.evernote.com/

http://animoto.com/

http://prezi.com/

http://www.diigo.com/introduce/home

What is a PLN?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxK0OSvKEU

Join a professional social networkPick blogs you find interesting and read them

Start commenting on the blogs you read.

Join the Twitter and read Tweets of known Edubloggers.

4 Ways to Build Your PLN

Communicating

Cool Cat Teacher – Vicki Davis Innovative Educator – Lisa Nielsen 2 Cents Worth – David Warlick Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Wesley

Fryer Around the Corner – Miguel Guhlin http://trinitycostarica.blogspot.com/ - Costa

Rica Trip

Pick blogs you find interesting and read them; Comment on them

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/

http://www.mguhlin.org/

http://trinitycostarica.blogspot.com/

Classroom 2.0 NL Connect Educators pln Google for Educators Mighty Winds Social Network

Join a professional social network

http://www.classroom20.com/

http://nlconnect.novemberlearning.com/

http://edupln.ning.com/

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

http://testornado.ning.com/

Connections

Tweet Why is Twitter a Teacher’s Best Tool? Top Educators to follow Who to Follow on Twitter – Who to follow under different

topics Alan November – Building Learning Communities Steve Hargadon – Created Classroom 2.0 Silvia Tolisano - Langwitches Wesley Fryer – Educational consultant Vicki Davis – CoolCatTeacher Lisa Thumann – Senior educational technology specialist

at Rutgers Will Richardson – Author, speaker, edublogger Angela Maiers – Motivational speaker in education

http://www.good.is/post/why-twitter-is-a-teacher-s-best-tool/

http://www.distance-education.org/Articles/The-Top-50-Educators-on-Twitter-to-Follow-in-2010-206.html

http://www.tweettop.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/globalearner

http://twitter.com/#!/stevehargadon

http://twitter.com/#!/langwitches

http://twitter.com/#!/wfryer

http://twitter.com/#!/coolcatteacher

http://twitter.com/#!/willrich45

http://twitter.com/#!/AngelaMaiers

Researching

Custom Search Google Search Tips Advanced Search Wonder Wheel Timeline

Google Features

http://www.google.com/cse/manage/create

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&authuser=0

http://www.google.com/#q=Abraham+Lincoln&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADSA_enUS432&biw=1058&bih=600&prmd=ivnsob&source=lnt&tbs=ww:1&sa=X&ei=AMLaTYW2Fajk0QG2-fT8Aw&ved=0CCQQpwUoAg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=65d2260741c8e199

http://www.google.com/search?q=Abraham+Lincoln&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADSA_enUS432&biw=1058&bih=600&tbs=tl:1&prmd=ivnsob&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=BsLaTdycNOfL0QHN47n8Aw&ved=0CBUQpwUoBA

Additional Resources Twitter 10 Steps for Educators New to Twitter Growing Your Personal Learning Network CommonCraft – 3 minute tutorial videos Sandy Cangelosi’s Diigo Account 21st Century Teacher – outstanding websites for teachers Internet Public Library – Web 2.0 learning community Cool Tools for Schools – web 2.0 tools divided into categories; collaboration,

presentations, drawing, creativity Smart Teaching - Free web tools for teachers Atomic Learning - (username - trinityepiscopal password – trinity) Discovery Streaming (teacher log-in)Teachers, put in the passcode (Teacher

Passcode: 5638-5F77) where it says "New User" so that you can generate your own unique user name and password.

Online Databases – Log into the Trinity Faculty Portal. You’ll see the Online Database tab.

http://edupln.com/profiles/blog/list?user=1lcnf62g2gwu8

http://justintarte.blogspot.com/2011/01/10-steps-for-educators-new-to-twitter.html

http://landmark-project.com/workshops/handouts/gypln_ll.pdf

http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking

http://www.diigo.com/user/scangelosi

http://www.21stcenturyschoolteacher.com/cool-websites.html

http://ipl2.cci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/IPL_15_Things

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-awesome-free-web-tools-for-elementary-teachers/

http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/home