1. Professional Learning Environm

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

3. Creating an Online
Personal Learning Network
Do 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.

4. What is a PLN?
"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."
Personal Learning Network
Professional Learning Network
Professional Learning Environment
van Harmelen, Mark (August 2006). "Personal Learning Environments". http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments. Retrieved 2006-08-24.

5. Title
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jutecht/2384289406/

6. 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.

7. 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.”

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. of data, information, of subject matter,
knowledge technologies, how to learn

12. Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
W3C “Social Networks Interoperability Roadmap”
Incubator Group (XG)
Federated Interoperable Framework

13. Personal
competence
development
objectives
Competence development lifecycle
in a learning network (according
Rogers)

14. Professional Network Organizing
LMS, Social network, Start page
Development of Professional Learning Network

15. Professional Network Organizing
PLE as part of Personal Learning Network and Professional
Learning Network

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

17. 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. Timeline
3. Resources
4. Potential Barriers

18. Tools
• Discovery • Mind mapping
Educator Network • Google Docs
• PBS Teachers • Zoho Tools
• Linked In • Collaborative File
• • Podcasts
Facebook Sharing
• • Delicious •
Ning Attend a Webinar
• • Diigo •
Google Tools Use Skype or
• • Set up or join a blog ooVoo
Twitter
• • Set up or join a wiki • Join Second Life
Plurk
• Use Slideshare
• You Tube or other
video sites
• Flickr or other photo
sharing sites

19. POWER UP YOUR
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK
Jennifer Carrier Dorman – http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ppln

20. Ning
http://www.classroom20.com/
http://teachingeverystudent.ning.com/
http://education.ning.com/
http://www.neccning.org/

21. Diigo Groups

22. http://www.zoho.com/

23. •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

29. Bibliography
Crofut. Sherry, "Professional Learning Networks.
http://conference2009.tie2.wikispaces.net/Professional+(Personal)+Learning+Networ
ks. 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.