1. Personal Learning
Networks
Connect, Collaborate, Collect, Curate & Contribute

2. I am part of all that I have met.
Tennyson (1842)

3. http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659/

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/

6. Challenges
Time
Relevance
Perspective
Experiences

8. Benefits of a PLN
Anytime
What you need
Educators from
around the world

10. Connect, Collaborate,
Collect, Curate &
Contribute
Personal Learning Networks

11. Step 1 – Join a Social Learning
Network
Connect

12. Step 2: Pick a few blogs & read
Connect

13. Step 3 – Comment, ReTweet, Like
and add to the conversation
Collaborate

14. Step 4 – Use RSS & Social Bookmarking
to organize your network
Collect & Curate
What is RSS?What is Social Bookmarking?

15. Step 5 – Create a Blog
Contribute

16. Step 6 – Share your content
Contribute
Issuu
Vimeo

17. Twitter

18. http://www.slideshare.net/raffikrikorian/twitter-by-the-numbers-columbia-university

19. “We have technology, finally, that
for the first time in human history
allows people to really maintain
rich connections with much larger
numbers of people.”
- Pierre Omidyar

20. Twitter Principal

21. Why join Twitter?
 Direct attention to the things you
care about
 Follow and converse with thought-
leaders
 Get the news first
 Pick your filters

22. Why join Twitter?
It only requires a modest
time commitment
Can view on mobile devices
Meeting your audience where
they learn

23. Twitter advice from Twitter

24. Twitter advice from Twitter

25. Twitter advice from Twitter

26. Twitter advice from Twitter

27. http://wefollow.com/

28. ReTweet (RT) to add to the
conversation
Collaborate

29. http://bigthink.com/ideas/38698

30. “Twitter is the back fence you
share with your neighbors. Except
your neighbors are people all over
the world”
- Scott Mcleod
@mcleod

32. tour
Create your account
Find a few educators to follow
Follow me @plan3t_t3ch

34. - @langwitches

35. Wordle Word Cloud from Plan3tt3ch.com

36. Group Bookmark Tags from FCCPS_EdTech

37. Why use Social Bookmarking?
Save bookmarks online
Access anywhere
Organize by tags
Custom URLs based on tags

38. Why use Social Bookmarking?
Follow users
Create groups
Follow groups

39. Follow people on Diigo

40. Follow people on Diigo

41. Follow people on Diigo

42. Join Groups on Diigo

43. Bookmark, tag, share in your
browser - Firefox

44. Bookmark, tag, share in your
browser - Chrome

45. tour
Create your account
Follow the Marymount ED554 group @MU_ED554
Search for other groups in your discipline

46. Personal Learning
Networks
Connect, Collaborate, Collect, Curate & Contribute