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Networking Onlinefor Professional Development
How has the Web changed in the last 5 years?
• Easy to create a Web site• Anyone can have a blog• Comment on each other’s blog posts, photos,
videos, bookmarks• “Watch” what other people are doing,
thinking, reading, talking about• Your network now includes “strangers”! (and
strangers are not so strange)
What is a Social Networking Site?
• A Web site that allows users to connect, communicate and/or share information with each other
By Moonjazz, http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/651498439/
Examples of Social Networking
• Email Lists• Blogs, Miniblogs, Microblogs• Delicious, Diigo • Facebook, MySpace. LinkedIn• Google Groups, Ning• Flickr, YouTube, TeacherTube• RSS, Google Reader• LibraryThing, Shelfari
From premiardeigo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/9119028@N05/591163479/
Your Personal Learning Network
• Think about how you learn new things– ?– ?
• Think about how you learned things 10 yrs ago– ?– ?
• Any differences?
Your Personal Learning Network
• 235 million searches a day on Google• 75% of people go to information directly from
their search results, NOT from the home page of a site
Your Personal Learning Network
• Example of Stephen Downeswww.downes.ca
– Saw references several years ago– Followed him on Twitter and Facebook– Received interesting links and references– Went to his blog and signed up for his newsletter– Posted on my blog about him and he responded– Now he is definitely in my PLN, and he notes that he
actually came up with the concept!
Your Personal Learning Network
“Information has always been a conversation, it’s just that most of us weren’t part of it, until the Internet.”
--Steve Hargadon www.stevehargadon.com
My PLN 10 Years ago
TeacherCoordinator
PresenterMom
Lesson Plans
Reports
Work-shops
Articles
Class Activities
Parenting
StudentsSupervisors
FriendsColleagues
Prof. Groups
JournalsBooksWeb Pages
ConferencesClassesSite Workshops
My PLN Now
Web site
ReportsWork-shops
ArticlesBlogs Grand-
parenting
Supervisors
Friends
ColleaguesProf. Groups
JournalsBooksWeb PagesConferencesClassesSite Workshops
AdministratorPresenterBlogger
Grandma
BlogsSocial NetworksListservsPodcastsAggregatorsTwitter
Online Network
Viral Professional Development
• We learn on our own with support from each other
• You don’t need a large training staff – just a few enthusiastic early adopters
• Build a network!• Share everything – tape it, blog it, tag it, post
it• Celebrate and get the word out up and down
the food chain
Email Lists, or Listservs
PROs• Easy to access• Comes to you (push)• Access to a wider
community• Get answers to your
questions
CONs• Too much email• Not all of interest• Public in ways you
might not realize
Wikis
• What is a wiki?• Go to the wiki
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/
Can you use these?
• Are you blogging?• Are you using a wiki?• How might you use either for professional
development?
Bookmarking and Tagging
• How you save sites now• Bookmarking• Tagging• Tag clouds• Go to the wiki
When I say Social Networking…
• What’s the first thing that comes to mind?
“Traditional” Social Networking
• MySpace• Facebook – Becoming
very popular with “older” users– 500 groups related to
ESL!• Yahoo Groups
From mattkeefe - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/
New Social Networking• A list of social network sites for education• Classroom 2.0• Go to the wiki
Sharing Media
• Flickr• YouTube• TeacherTube• Ustream• Go to the wiki
Sharing Books
• Shelfari• LibraryThing
From Phil Moore - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/
Keeping up with your network
• Aggregators, Feeds• My Yahoo• Google Reader• Jaiku, Friendfeed, SocialThing• Go to the wiki
GO FORTH AND CONNECT!
