Bonsai Networking: pruning your professional learning network (VU Seminar)

BONSAI NETWORKING

Pruning your professional

learning network

Joyce Seitzinger Victoria University

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Kia Ora! Goedemorgen! Gidday!

Joyce Seitzinger @catspyjamasnz #bonsaipln

LINK TO DIGITAL HANDOUT

http://tiny.cc/bonsaipln

MY E-LEARNING ROLE

Moodle Admin

Course Builder

Learning Designer Teacher

eLearning policy & strategy

Trainer

Moodle Helpdesk

Graphic Designer

SOCIAL MEDIA SAVED MY LIFE…

MY STATS

•  On Twitter since Nov 2007 •  Followers - 8700 •  Tweets - 34557 •  Organiser PLE Conference 2012 •  Blogger – 16K downloads •  Instagram – 1043 pics •  Linkedin – 500+ connections •  Slideshare most viewed: 26555

views •  Most shared open educational

resource: Moodle Tool Guide •  Flickr – 5989 photos •  Klout – 70 •  Scoopit – 5 boards •  Dropbox & Google Drive/Docs •  And counting….

NETPRAX Deakin University, Faculty of Health March 2013 - Jun 2014 100 participants Embedding networked practice for personal learning, teaching practice and research practice iPad based Mozilla Open Badges Yammer/Facebook/Blog Twitter.com/netprax

People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of our lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit – even classrooms, for example. I take an approach that urges me to consider the significant overlap across these boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel through different and even contradictory contexts and activities.

KRIS GUTIERREZ

JOI ITO

“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”

@joi

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DIGITAL VISITOR / DIGITAL RESIDENT MAPPING Personal

Institutional

Resident Visitor

QUICK EXERCISE Personal

Institutional

Resident Visitor

DIGITAL RESIDENCY MAPPING

http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2012/11/19/vr-mapping-at-educause/

http://rockcheetah.com/blog/technology/web-2-0-3-0-impact-on-hospitality-technology-hftp-hitec/

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html

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INSERT ANY PROFESSIONAL

REASONS TO START A PLN

•  Act as a filter for information overload •  Mining information on the web •  Establish yourself as a node in the

network •  Participate in communities/tribes

•  Break through silos

ABOUT THE TOOLS

ABOUT THE PEOPLE

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Everyone has the same building blocks… …but how do you put them together?

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Community / Hub

Information Streams

Portfolio Curation

THE AIM OF BONSAI

“to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-size trees.” “The purposes of bonsai are primarily contemplation (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the grower)”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who is your audience/ community?

• Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics?

• Frequency

• Which platforms do you use for your information streams?

• What are advantages/ disadvantages?

• Can they act as ‘feeders’?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with your community?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• Use a professional avatar or personal? Both?

• How much do you share about you?

• How easily are you found?

Conversation

/Hub Information

Streams

Curation Portfolio

You

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Many students already have confident social identities online, but developing identities as learners, writers, scholars, citizens — these are important tasks as part of higher education. - Catherine Cronin

http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-identities/

ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY

If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face… [they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting the negotiation of productive identities through landscapes of practice.” - Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010)

ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who is your audience/ community?

• Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics?

• Frequency

• Which platforms do you use for your information streams?

• What are advantages/ disadvantages?

• Can they act as ‘feeders’?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with your community?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• Use a professional avatar or personal? Both?

• How much do you share about you?

• How easily are you found?

Conversation

/Hub Information

Streams

Curation Portfolio

You

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Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing

The social curation process

Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity expression or community participation.” Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference Proceedings

Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing

The social curation process

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits? • How safe and transferable are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who is your audience/ community?

• Where do you keep your work? • Is it digital or analog? • Private or public? • What shareables have you got? • What shareables would suit you? Podcasts, graphics?

• Frequency

• Which platforms do you use for your information streams?

• What are advantages/ disadvantages?

• Can they act as ‘feeders’?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with your community?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• Use a professional avatar or personal? Both?

• How much do you share about you?

• How easily are you found?

Conversation

/Hub Information

Streams

Curation Portfolio

You

MAKER CULTURE

•  Here Comes Everybody

•  Making is Connecting

START EASY - SLIDES

•  www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth •  www.slideshare.net/gconole •  www.slideshare.net/courosa

Pruning your roots

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ROOTS ARE YOUR INTERESTS

•  What topics have yourinterest? •  Will your PLN be personal, professional

or both? •  Research, teaching, personal learning

or all of the above?

PRUNE ROOTS & BRANCHES REPEATEDLY

•  Review: do these topics still have my interest?

•  Have new topics or groups come into my PLN?

•  Have new tools emerged? Should I stop using some tools?

•  Talk with other practitioners…

“Listen to the tree, it tells you where it wants to go.” (Anon.)

FOR YOUR CONTEMPLATION…

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Joyce Seitzinger @catspyjamasnz @academictribe joyceseitzinger@gmail.com academictribe.co

Questions?