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A bonsai method to building your personal learning network, presented at CSU's #docfest in Wagga Wagga, June 2014.
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BONSAI NETWORKING
Prune your personal
learning network
Joyce Seitzinger DocFest
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JOYCE SEITZINGER @CATSPYJAMASNZ @ACADEMICTRIBE #CSUDOCFEST
JOI ITO
“I don’t think educa0on is about centralized instruc0on anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed crea0vity.” @joi hEp://www.ny0mes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-‐ito-‐innova0ng-‐by-‐the-‐seat-‐of-‐our-‐pants.html?_r=0
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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 contempla;on (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the grower)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai
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• 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?
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Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing
The social curation process
Social cura0on is: “the discovery, selec0on, collec0on and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social purpose such as learning, collabora0on, iden0ty expression or community par0cipa0on.” 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
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Collections Portfolio
You
PORTFOLIO STARTER FOR 10 – YOUR SLIDES
PRUNE YOUR
ROOTS
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CONTAINMENT
• What topics have your interest?
• Will your PLN be personal, professional or both?
• Research, teaching, personal learning or all of the above?
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PRUNE ROOTS & BRANCHES REGULARLY
• Review: do these topics s0ll have my interest? • Have new topics or groups come into my PLN? • Have new tools emerged? Should I stop using some tools?
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“Listen to the tree, it tells you where it wants to go.” (Anon.)
CONTEMPLATION
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