THINKING GLOBALLY, DELIVERING LOCALLY

THINKING GLOBALLY, DELIVERING LOCALLY

Web 2.0 and PLNs

26th March 2009

Developing a 'Personal Learning Network‘

Darcy Moore

Rubric

Build your own PLN using Web 2.0 tools like Twitter, Google Reader, WordPress blogs, RSS feeds and social bookmarking with Delicious.

By the end of the session...

We will have considered:

• Web 2.0 tools that enable us to communicate, create, collaborate and connect

• the concept of a 'Personal Learning Network' (PLN)

Why?

• In times of unprecedented change we need to collaborate using powerful online tools and, to use a metaphor that has been floating around for a while, ‘build planes as they fly’

• Developing a PLN is the most effective way of learning about the tools, as we use them and discover more from colleagues – locally and internationally

WEB 2.0WEB 2.0

DO YOU GET DO YOU GET IT?IT?

Participatory Media• Web 2.0 or the read/write web is about

participation and community

• Our participation is essential if students are to get the full benefit of ‘learning devices’ and wireless connectivity

• All the tools are basically free (and fun)

• We will continue to learn while ‘building planes’

Just checking…

• Please complete the handout…

What is a PLN?

My ‘Personal Learning Network’

• I click on links sent via

• Often I save them to

• These sites are then fed into my

• Using an RSS feed

Micro-blogging

What are you doing?

Paranoid?

• Protect my updates. Only let people whom I approve follow my updates. If this is checked, you WILL NOT be on the public timeline. Updates posted previously may still be publicly visible in some places.

Social Bookmarking

RSS Feeds & Google Reader

Blogging

My Blog

• Has become an important part of my PLN

• My blog is personal and professional

• Other educators follow me on Twitter and see my updates, have an RSS feed on my blog and are part of my ‘Delicious’ network

• Increasingly they are on

• We know and trust each other

"We teach others by teaching ourselves anew."

Garth Boomer

Ways of Seeing

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in having new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

Blog: http://darcymoore.wordpress.com/

Email: Darcy.Moore@det.nsw.edu.au

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Darcy1968

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