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Developing a Personal Learning Network for Professional Development jeremybwilliams AgataMandava

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Developing a Personal Learning Network for Professional Development

jeremybwilliams

AgataMandava

In this session, we are going toLook at how social media platforms can be utilised to develop your professional profile.

Discuss the importance of social media in todays world of education.

Evaluate different platforms and what purpose they may serve.

Create our own social media networks.

Whats your stand?

Lets take this short quiz and see what you think about social media.

Go to this page: http://goo.gl/OTekkz and start the quiz!

Describe your personal learning environment

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Isnt there an app for that?

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What have you learnt today?this month?this week?Who have you told?

ConnectivismLearning rests on diversity of opinions it is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources the capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known

communication of content has become less important than the network of communication

Personal Learning EnvironmentProfessional LearningNetworkPersonalLearningNetwork

Segregating Professional and Personal Learning Networks can only ever be an individual decision

Are you managing your digital identity?

Lets create a brand! In this activity, you will be asked to set up different social media platforms.

Follow these instructions:

You can work individually, in pairs or in threes (depending on computer availability)

Create an account on a selected platform.

Upload pictures

Write a short BIO/description of yourself

Post content (should be related to ECE)

Lets sum it up!To be successful on social media platforms, keep the following guidelines in mind:

Personal brand is important for educators

Many networks to tap into need to optimize to maximise return of efforts for professional purposes

Many social networks NOT aware of need to stay alert to new developments Twitter is good for this

We have options to bring in a whole GROUP of educators to share resources enhancing professional practice

Use Google and YouTube to find out how

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