Dec 31, 2015
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)
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/
Examples of Social Networking
• Email Lists
• Blogs, Miniblogs, Microblogs
• Delicious, Diigo
• Facebook, MySpace. LinkedIn
• Google Groups, Ning
• Flickr, YouTube, TeacherTube
• RSS, Google Reader
• LibraryThing, ShelfariFrom premiardeigo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/9119028@N05/591163479/
Your Personal Learning Network
• Think about how you learn new things
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• Think about how you learned things 10 yrs ago
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• Any differences?
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
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!
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
My PLN 10 Years ago
TeacherCoordinator
PresenterMom
Lesson Plans
Reports
Work-shops
Articles
Class Activities
Parenting
StudentsSupervisors
FriendsColleagues
Prof. Groups
JournalsBooksWeb Pages
ConferencesClassesSite Workshops
My PLN Now
Web site
ReportsWork-shops
ArticlesBlogs Grand-
parenting
Supervisors
Friends
ColleaguesProf. Groups
JournalsBooksWeb PagesConferencesClassesSite Workshops
AdministratorPresenterBlogger
Grandma
BlogsSocial NetworksListservsPodcastsAggregatorsTwitter
Online Network
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
Viral Professional Development
• Jennifer Jones, Injenuity.com
• http://injenuity.com/archives/66
• A viral post on viral PD
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
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
Wikis
• What is a wiki?
• Go to the wiki
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/
Can you use these?
• Are you blogging?
• Are you using a wiki?
• How might you use either for professional development?
Bookmarking and Tagging
• How you save sites now
• Bookmarking
• Tagging
• Tag clouds
• Go to the wiki
(my Delicious account) (my diigo account)
“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/
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
Keeping up with your network
• Aggregators, Feeds
• My Yahoo
• Google Reader
• Jaiku, Friendfeed, SocialThing
• Go to the wiki