Expanding your professional learning network
Penny Coutas EdD Candidate Murdoch University [email protected]
4 Seasons Conference French, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish Language Teachers Adelaide, September 2009
Keep standing if you…
…chat to colleagues about work
…chat to colleagues about other stuff
…belong to a professional (teachers’) associa<on
…use email
…use Facebook
…have colleagues as “friends” on FB
…have students as “friends” on FB
…have a blog or other website
…use a RSS Reader
…are here mainly for the food
Social Networking =/
Educa<onal Networking =/
Professional Networking
Social Networking =/
Educa<onal Networking =/
Professional Networking
But it’s all personal networking
Expanding your professional (personal) learning network
PLN yourself at hLp://suewaters.wikispaces.com
What do people tweet about?
Tweet to your followers
Follow others
Reply using @
Private message using d
ReTweet using RT
Create convos and trends using #
Generated by TwiLer Friend Wheel hLp://thomas‐fletcher.com/friendwheel/twiLer/
Expand & enhance my professional circle
Learn from the influencers
What has their aLen<on?
Learn from the teachers
What has their aLen<on?
The best of the web
Backchannel Form a backchannel
Get help
Iran elec<ons
MarrioL & Ritz bombings
Wil Anderson @ #Logies
Language Teachers
Get to know those who know
Not just real people: Bots too!
hLp://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twiLer.htm
Students can use TwiLer in their own PLN
But don’t assume that they do already
Mash and mix it up!
hLp://www.twiLervision.com
Find people you already know
hLp://twibbon.com/
Find like‐minded users
Applica<on database: hLp://twitdom.com/
Get a client
Learn by doing
hLp://mashable.com/guidebook/twiLer/
Find a guide (person or other)
Set your privacy (and purpose)
Penny Coutas EdD Candidate Murdoch University [email protected]
4 Seasons Conference French, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish Language Teachers Adelaide, September 2009
Where credits are not given the images are my own. People are pictured with permission. Twitter screenshots from http://www.twitter.com and Tweetie on my iPhone.
Slides 1 & 67: Background from http://www.twitter.com Other backgrounds: http://limeshot.com/2008/twitter-backgrounds Slides 7-9: http://www.facebook.com Slide 10: http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/pcoutas Slide 11: http://reader.google.com Slide 12: Photo by Kate Reitzenstein Slide 15: http://www.myspace.com ; http://www.facebook.com Slide 16: http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com Slide 18: ‘All about me’ Uploaded on December 27, 2008 by mtsofan to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsofan/3142398920/ Slide 19: ‘PLE as subset of PLN’ Uploaded on December 18, 2008 by catspyjamasnz to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/3118564555/ Slide 20: ‘Twitter Bandwagon’ Uploaded on October 15, 2008 by Matt Hamm to Flickr http://www.jarche.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/twitterbandwagon_matthamm.jpg Slide 21: http://suewaters.pbworks.com Slides 24, 26, 27, 44, 49, 65: MinXuan Lee http://www.slideshare.net/minxuan/how-twitter-changed-my-life-presentation Used with permission. Slides 28: Twitter Mosaic http://sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl Slides 33, 54 & 62: http://www.mashable.com Slides 35, 36, 57: Twitter Friendwheel http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/twitter/generate.php Slide 40: ‘Information hydrant’ Uploaded on June 20, 2008 by Will Lion to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/ Slides 45 & 46: http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-iran/ Slide 48: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/04/celebrities-tweet-the-logies/ Slide 53: http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twitter.htm Slide 55: http://www.twittervision.com Slide 59: http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers Slide 60: http://blog.hubspot.com Slide 61: http://www.blaugh.com Slide 66: ‘Travelling feet: Beyond fallen flowers & grass…’ Uploaded on January 6, 2008 by psycherika to FLickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaleidosopicpsyche/2174781610/ Slide 66: Betcher, C., & Lee, M. (2009). The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution: Teaching With IWBs. Camberwell, Vic: ACER Press.
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