PLN PD

Building Up Your Teaching ArsenalDiscover how to connect to, learn from, and collaborate with teachers from around the world by creating a Professional Learning Network

Presenters: Sue Butler & Lynnette Johnson

What is a Professional Learning Network? And how can I use a PLN to improve my teaching?

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What do you want to know more about in this PD session?

Open your computers, open up your Internet browser, and type in:

http://www.m.socrative.com

When it asks for a Room number, type:

9277Type in your answer to the above question.

Click here - Symbaloo - for sites used in this presentation.

Creating a Digital File Cabinet

How do you keep track of all the cool stuff you find on the Internet?

Tool: www.diigo.com

Diigo: Social BookmarkingDiigo is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to create a digital file cabinet. You can “tag” (same as the tab on a paper

file folder) each site to keep you organized; you can even give a site multiple tags.

You can add notes to help you remember why you bookmarked the site.

You can highlight relevant parts of the site. You can add sticky notes to the site.

Building Your PLN Activity!Using Diigo ( www.diigo.com ), bookmark 10 websites you already use. Professional organizations Websites you use with your students Websites you use to create lesson plans

SMART Exchange, etc.

TAGGING: your tags need to be consistent, general, and easy to remember

Why is it called “social” bookmarking?You can benefit from all user’s, a group’s, or individual’s bookmarks by sharing them.

(Let someone else do all that pesky searching the web for you!)

This turns your bookmarking site into a social networking site.

a site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networking or social relations among people who share interests, activities, and/or backgrounds.

Using Diigo for Social Networking

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Social Bookmarking/Networking using Diigo All User’s bookmarks:

type a keyword next to the magnifying glass of your Diigo library and see what other Diigo users have tagged for that word. (not all school appropriate!)

Social Bookmarking/Networking using Diigo, cont.

Group’s bookmarks: go to My Groups, click “Browse other popular groups”, click “Schools & Education” category. Add relevant groups to your My Groups by clicking Join Group.

D100 has a Diigo group!

Social Bookmarking/Networking using Diigo, cont.

Community’s bookmarks: go to Community, click “education” under Hot Tags.

There are sub-categories within education to explore as well.

These are the most-bookmarked sites on Diigo with that tag.

Social Bookmarking/Networking using Diigo, cont.

Individual’s bookmarks: go to My Network, click “Search Diigo users of interest.”

Or, search for a colleague’s name, the name of a renowned educator, or someone you’ve been reading a lot about on websites or blogs.

Building Your PLN Activity!Add 3 groups to My Groups.

Add 3 new bookmarks using Community.

Extra credit: Find an individual to follow to add to My Network.

Other Social Networking SitesPinterestFacebook

We have included articles detailing howto use these sites in our resources section.

Other Social Networking SitesEdmodo

Can be used to network with teachers around the globe: Get ideas from others Find new sites/blogs/people to add to your

PLN Collaborate with other teachers Give back to others by posting cool sites

you find or actual teaching materials and lessons.

Other Social Networking Sites

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www.edmodo.com

Edmodo CommunitiesNext to Communities, click Browse.

Subject-area communities Publisher communities

Request to join a community by clicking “Follow this Subject”. (You cannot post to a group or answer a post until you have been approved as a teacher.)

A great way to learn of and check out established and up-and-coming Web 2.0 tools.

Edmodo Communities, cont.

Communities features: Sub-categories Top content Posts by teachers from around the globe (find

great resources for your classroom!) Ability to ask colleagues around the world for

help and ideas with teaching and lesson planning

Learn of great Web 2.0 tools, websites & blogs Find other teachers with whom to collaborate

Building Your PLN Activity!Go to www.edmodo.com .

Find 3 Communities of interest to you (subject area and/or publisher) and Follow. (Request to join a community by clicking “Follow this Subject”.)

Compiling Digital SubscriptionsHow do you keep track of all those great bloggers and professional websites on the Internet? Especially when the content can change weekly or even daily!

Tool: www.google.com/reader

Compiling Digital Subscriptions, cont.

Let the new material come to you!

The Analogy—instead of going to the store to get a newspaper or magazine, get a subscription and have them show up at your doorstep!

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Google ReaderA type of news aggregator or feed reader. The user chooses what web-based sources to “subscribe” to and new updates to that source are managed by the Reader.

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Google Reader, cont.

Features: You can put your subscriptions into folders

to keep different topics organized. You only have to look at new items from

each subscription. Each new item has a “headline” to help you

decide if you are interested. You can click on the item to take

you to the original post/site/blog.

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Google Reader, cont.

How do you find blogs/websites/wikis etc. to follow? Pay attention when you do web searches. Does a

certain site keep popping up? Add it to your Reader.

When reading posts on Edmodo, are you seeing teachers mention certain sites or bloggers? Check them out; add them to your Reader.

Find out from your colleagues what they are reading online.

Check out the Resources page for this PD session.

Building Your PLN Activity!Go to www.google.com/reader .

Add 4 subscriptions to your Reader.

Click Subscribe button, copy and paste URL of site.

Final PLN Activity!Now give back to your fellow educators!Post a cool Web 2.0 site to an Edmodo

community.When you bookmark something in Diigo,

add it to the D100 Group.Have you read something helpful from

one of your favorite sites in your Reader? Email a link to a colleague.

Building your Teaching Arsenal