Creating your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

Using twitter and RSS feeders

We all have a PLN who is in yours now?

Who is in your learning network?

Who do you learn from on a regular basis?

Who do you turn to for your own professional development?

PLN BasicsWhat is a digital PLN?How would that help me?How do I create one?

Twitter

Really Simple Syndicate (RSS)

Pull Technology

Digital Networking

ConnectContributeConverseRequestBe PatientBe Authentic

Totally IndividualizedSubject matterGradeTopic or interest

No one knows everything about anything, but a lot of people know something

Let’s Set Up an Account

Twitter Teacher

Twitter Set UpConfirm your account through your emailCreate your profile

Privacy settingsSeparating work and personal twitterUsing your real name and photo for

professional use

Create Your Profile

The Lingo

@mentionsRetweetsDM direct

messageUsing

#hashtags

@mentions

Retweets (RT)

Direct Messages (DM)

#hashtags

Favorites: a way to file resources

Twitter Search

Finding Tweeps

Shortening Your URL

Top 21 Twitter Clients

Tweet Deck

Twitter Etiquette http://heidicohen.com/twitter-etiquette/

Find Some People to FollowYour address book to find people you knowHash tags # to find interestsLook at people associated with someone you

resonate with @donnaromanFollow and unfollow to tailor your PLN

RSS ReaderRSS in Plain English

Google Reader

Set up Your ReaderCreate a google accountClick on ReaderStart with 3-5 blogs to followLet’s start finding blogs

Edublog 2011 winners

In order to teach students about the power of social networking by learning to:

Navigate Be safeLeverage their participationAct ethically Use effectively

We have to understand it ourselves

They are already engaged in networking, but there are not many people teaching them

So, what did you end up with?

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