Online Personal Learning Networks

Global Communities of Practice

Barbara LindseyUniversity of Connecticut

ACTFL 2009November 21, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Today we will

• understand what online personal learning networks are and how they can support the teaching and learning of world languages

• explore selected personal learning networks

• brainstorm ways personal learning networks can support our programs, each other and our students

Learning networks

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182

Learning networks

What kind of learning networks do

studentnoviceveteran

less commonly taught ruralurban

suburban

language teachers typically have access to?

What are the advantages? Disadvantages?

What are some of your curricular challenges?

•team articulation

•common assessments

•advocacy

•differentiated instruction

•shared resources

•repository of current cultural artifacts

•other?

What networks do you use to address them?

Alec Couros describes two different kinds of educator learning networks as shown in these two figures. (Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182)Saturday, November 21, 2009

What would the perfect learning network look like for you?

What would you want to learn about? When? Where? How? With whom?

A VoiceThread by Alec Couros and 116 global collaborators

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow.”

John Dewey

Digital World: Teachers Today

How do we get from here to there?

Alec Couros Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, page 182Saturday, November 21, 2009

Diigo“A powerful research tool and knowledge sharing community”

Twitter"Share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in

the world"

“Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together”

A Toni Theisen Wiki

Ning“Create Your Own Social Network”

Classroom 2.0—free!—learning sessions

Sources• Slide 2: The ugly duckling by pasma http://www.flickr.com/photos/

79471640@N00/485201047

• Slide 3: 4 Lions at waterhole by Arno & Louise http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/347999240

• Slide 4: Elephants by travfotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/60204143@N00/1938262056

• Slide 5: hidden valley by lince http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/1807924020/

• Slide 7: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182 http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

• Slide 8: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182

Sources• Slide 9: Elephants by travfotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/

60204143@N00/1938262056

• Slide 14 What Does the Network Mean To You? by Alec Couros http://voicethread.com/#q.b67978.i350123

• Slide 16: Digital World: Teachers Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2j9qw-A0NM&feature=related

Sources• Slide 17: Alec Couros, Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and

Implications for Education, December 2006, p. 182

• Slide 18: Diigo V3: Highlight & Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A

• Slide 19: http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

• Slide 20: http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=community&what=mexico%20history

• Slide 21: Educational Leadership: How Teachers Learn: Learning with Blogs and Wikis by Bill Ferriter http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/Learning_with_Blogs_and_Wikis.aspx

• Slide 22: http://www.diigo.com/profile/common/Acjeppo

• Slide 23: Antz by krembo1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/

Sources• Slide 24: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2009/05/each-age-

has-its-confessions.html

• Slide 25: http://twitter.com/lindseybp

• Slide 26: http://twitter.com/astro_jose

• Slide 27: http://twitter.com/astro_jose

• Slide 28: http://twitter.com/

• Slide 29: http://twitter.com/lindseybp

• Slide 30: Wikis in Plain English by CommonCraft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=PlayList&p=4E2A33DC783A4102

• Slide 31: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/ and http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/

• Slide 32: http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers

Sources• Slide 33: Toni Theisen’s World Languages 21st Century http://

worldlanguages21stcentury.wikispaces.com/

• Slide 34: Ning in Education http://education.ning.com/

• Slide 35: Flatclassroom Project Ning http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/

• Slide 36: Classroom 2.0 Ning http://www.classroom20.com/

• Slide 37: Menagerie by ChibiJosh http://www.flickr.com/photos/88611288@N00/67289653

• Slide 38: Boog Gets a Drink by cobalt123 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/143494929/

• Slide 39: hidden valley by lince http://www.flickr.com/photos/lince/1807924020/

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