Professional Learning EnvironmentProfessional Learning Environment

Professional (Personal) Learning Networks

Sherry Crofut

http://conference2009.tie2.wikispaces.net/Professional+(Personal)+Learning+Networks

Creating an Online Personal Learning NetworkDo you have too many websites to keep up with? Do you want to stay connected with the latest research

and educational blogs? Learn how to create your own Online Personal Learning Network through

the use of RSS and more.

What is a PLN?

Personal Learning NetworkProfessional Learning Network

"Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to

•set their own learning goals •manage their learning; managing both content and process •communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.

A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems: As such it may be a desktop application, or composed of one or more web-based services."

van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24.

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Stages of PLN Adoption

• Stage 1 Immersion: – Immerse yourself into networks.

– Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to.

– Collaboration and connections take off.

Stages of PLN Adoption

• Stage 2 Evaluation: – Evaluate your networks and start to focus in

on which networks you really want to focus your time on.

– You begin feeling a sense of urgency and try to figure out a way to “Know it all.”

Stages of PLN Adoption

• Stage 3 Know it all: – Find that you are spending many hours trying

to learn everything you can.

– Realize there is much you do not know and feel like you can’t disconnect.

– This usually comes with spending every waking minutes trying to be connected to the point that you give up sleep and contact with others around you to be connected to your networks of knowledge.

Stages of PLN Adoption

• Stage 4 Perspective: – Start to put your life into perspective. – Usually comes when you are forced to leave

the network for awhile and spend time with family and friends who are not connected.

Stages of PLN Adoption

• Stage 5 Balance: – Try and find that balance between learning

and living.

– Understanding that you can not know it all, and begin to understand that you can rely on your network to learn and store knowledge for you.

– A sense of calm begins as you understand that you can learn when you need to learn and you do not need to know it all right now.

of data, information, knowledge

of subject matter, technologies, how to learn

Social-oriented applications and professional networks - new opportunities for learners and educators

W3C “Social Networks Interoperability Roadmap” Incubator Group (XG)

Federated Interoperable Framework

Personal competence development objectives

Competence development lifecycle in a learning network (according Rogers)

Professional Network Organizing

LMS, Social network, Start page

Development of Professional Learning Network

Professional Network Organizing

PLE as part of Personal Learning Network and Professional Learning Network

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/

PLN Implementation Plan•Stage 1 Immersion:

–Immerse yourself into networks.

–Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to.

–Collaboration and connections take off.

PLN Action Plan Steps

1. What Tools Will You Use?

2. Timeline3. Resources4. Potential Barriers

Tools• Mind mapping• Google Docs• Zoho Tools• Collaborative

File Sharing• Attend a

Webinar• Use Skype or

ooVoo• Join Second Life

• Podcasts• Delicious• Diigo • Set up or join a

blog• Set up or join a

wiki• Use Slideshare• You Tube or other

video sites• Flickr or other

photo sharing sites

• Discovery Educator Network

• PBS Teachers• Linked In• Facebook • Ning• Google Tools• Twitter• Plurk

POWER UP YOUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK

Jennifer Carrier Dorman – http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ppln

Ninghttp://www.classroom20.com/

http://teachingeverystudent.ning.com/

http://education.ning.com/

http://www.neccning.org/

Diigo Groups

http://www.zoho.com/

•Plurk is another micro-blogging website that allows you to form your own PLN (Professional/Personal Learning Network) like Twitter•It is more conversational than Twitter because it allows conversations to stay threaded

Bibliography

Crofut. Sherry, "Professional Learning Networks. http://conference2009.tie2.wikispaces.net/Professional+(Personal)+Learning+Networks. Retrieved 2013/03/15.

Crofut. Sherry, "Professional Learning Networks. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect. Retrieved 2013/03/15.

Dorman, Jennifer. (Jun 2009) "Power Up Your Professional Learning" http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/power-up-your-professional-learning-network. Retrieved 2013/03/15.

Hurley, Heather. (Oct 2009) "Spicing up your Professional Network" http://www.slideshare.net/hhurley/spicing-up-your-professional-network. Retrieved 2013/03/14.

Malinka, Ivanova (Apr 2009).”Spicing up your Professional Learning Networks”. http://www.slideshare.net/malinkaiva/from-personal-learning-environment-building-to-professional-learning-network-forming. Retrieved 2013-03-14.

Van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24.