8. MY STATS
• On Twitter since Nov 2007
• Followers - 8700
• Tweets - 34557
• Organiser PLE Conference 2012
• Blogger – 16K downloads
• Instagram – 1043 pics
• Linkedin – 500+ connections
• Slideshare most viewed: 26555
views
• Most shared open educational
resource: Moodle Tool Guide
• Flickr – 5989 photos
• Klout – 70
• Scoopit – 5 boards
• Dropbox & Google Drive/Docs
• And counting….
9. NETPRAX
Deakin University, Faculty of Health
March 2013 - Jun 2014
100 participants
Embedding networked practice for
personal learning, teaching practice
and research practice
iPad based
Mozilla Open Badges
Yammer/Facebook/Blog
Twitter.com/netprax
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12. People live their lives and learn across multiple
settings, and this holds true not only across the
span of our lives but also across and within the
institutions and communities they inhabit – even
classrooms, for example. I take an approach that
urges me to consider the significant overlap
across these boundaries as people, tools, and
practices travel through different and even
contradictory contexts and activities.
KRIS GUTIERREZ
13. JOI ITO
“I don’t think education is about
centralized instruction anymore; rather, it
is the process [of] establishing oneself as
a node in a broad network of distributed
creativity.”
@joi
25. cc licensed flickr photo by courosa: http://flickr.com/photos/courosa/
344832659/
26. cc licensed flickr photo by courosa: http://flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/
INSERT ANY PROFESSIONAL
27. REASONS TO START A PLN
• Act as a filter for information overload
• Mining information on the web
• Establish yourself as a node in the
network
• Participate in communities/tribes
• Break through silos
29. ABOUT THE PEOPLE
cc licensed flickr photo by shareski: http://flickr.com/photos/shareski/
30. Everyone has the same building blocks…
…but how do you put them together?
31. Image cc license by user rofi https://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/5194829490/
Community
/ Hub
Information
Streams
Portfolio Curation
32. 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
contemplation (for the viewer) and the
pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for
the grower)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai
33. • 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
/Hub
Information
Streams
CurationPortfolio
You
40. Many students already have confident social
identities online, but developing identities
as learners, writers, scholars, citizens —
these are important tasks as part of higher
education.
- Catherine Cronin
http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-
identities/
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
41. If institutions of learning are going to help
learners with the real challenges they face…
[they] will have to shift their focus from
imparting curriculum to supporting the
negotiation of productive identities through
landscapes of practice.”
- Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010)
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
42. • 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
/Hub
Information
Streams
CurationPortfolio
You
43. cc licensed flickr photo by Will Lion: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/
44. Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing
The social curation process
Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection
and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a
social purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity
expression or community participation.”
Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference
Proceedings
55. • 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
/Hub
Information
Streams
CurationPortfolio
You
59. ROOTS ARE YOUR INTERESTS
• What topics have yourinterest?
• Will your PLN be personal, professional
or both?
• Research, teaching, personal learning
or all of the above?
60. PRUNE ROOTS & BRANCHES REPEATEDLY
• Review: do these topics still have my
interest?
• Have new topics or groups come into my
PLN?
• Have new tools emerged? Should I stop
using some tools?
• Talk with other practitioners…
“Listen to the tree, it tells you where it wants to
go.” (Anon.)