Create your own (PLN)Personal Learning Network

John Allan

TESL Niagara April, 2013

Keep in mind…

Multiple options

Choose options that are best for you

Moderation (be realistic with your choices)

PowerPoint on SlideShare or edtechisus

Resources are in no particular order

Some overlap in genres

Organisation discussed at end

Keep in mind…

When something goes wrong please do not press…..

Many of the links will not work as social media is a four letter word at many institutions.

What is a PLN?

Informal process

Personal

Choose what to learn

Choose the resources

Choose the time

Global collaboration

Sharing

Suggested PLN Genres

Peers

Professional Communities

Conferences

Webinars & Webcasts

Online courses

Learning Communities

Suggested PLN Genres

Online Journals

Online magazines/ newsletters

Search Engines

Social Networks

Libraries

Miscellaneous

myPLN

Learning Communities

Social Networks

Social Bookmarking

Reference Tools

Libraries

Peers

conferences

Online courses

Search Engines

Professional Development

Peers

Staffroom

Lunch & Learns

Librarians for an alternate perspective

Administrators (funding options, professional development)

Authors (web pages) http://webpages.csus.edu/%7Ehansonsm/

Authors (blogs) http://david-crystal.blogspot.ca/

Authors(Twitter)https://twitter.com/search?q=krashen&src=typd

Professional Communities

TESL Ontario, TESOL, IATEFL http://www.teslontario.net

Affiliates: TESL Niagara www.facebook.com/tesl.niagara

Interest Sections SIGs http://www.tesolarabia.net/ta/?page_id=389

Standards http://www.tesol.org/advance-the-field/standards

Resource centres

http://www.tesol.org/connect/tesol-resource-center

http://www.tesl.ca/tesl/Teachers_Resource_Centre__TRC_.htm

PD events http://tesltoronto.org/workshopsconferences

Publications http://www.teslontario.net/publication

Conferences

ConventionalTESL Ontario http://www.teslontario.net/conference

OnlineVirtual Round Table http://www.virtual-round-table.com

Niche online conferences http://www.britishcouncil.org/turkey-english-teaching-stories-for-schools-story-sharing-conference.htm

Informal - unconferences (Speed Geeking, Pecha Kucha, Barcamp)

Webcasts become webinars

Tutela Webinars http://tutela.ca/Submit+Webinar

TESOL Virtual Seminars (archived) http://www.tesol.org/attend-and-learn/online-courses-seminars/past-virtual-seminars

*TESL Ontario (archived webcasts) http://www.teslontario.net/conference/webcastpresenter-handouts

Online courses

Commercial Atomic http://www.atomiclearning.com

MOOCs (massive open online courses)Coursera https://www.coursera.org/

Professional organisationsTESOL courseshttp://www.tesol.org/attend-and-learn/online-courses-seminars

Post TESL Certificate Training (PTCT) http://ptct.teslontario.org/

Free “indy” teacher courses http://www.freemoodle.org/course/view.php?id=189

More Online opportunities

Free organisationalhttp://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage

ITunesU http://www.apple.com/ca/education/itunes-u/

WebHeads in Action weekly sessions http://webheadsinaction.org

#edchat weekly discussion http://edchat.pbworks.com/w/page/219908/FrontPage

Open courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Wikis

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

WikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page

Pbwikis http://edchat.pbworks.com/w/page/219908/FrontPage

Online Journals

The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org

TESL Canada Journal Online http://www.teslcanadajournal.ca

The Electronic Journal for ESL http://www.tesl-ej.org

The Language Teacher http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/recent

Online newsletter/magazines

English Teaching Professional http://www.etprofessional.com

TESL Contact http://www.teslontario.net/publication/contact-magazine

Social Networks

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/tesol.assn

Twitter https://twitter.com/TESOL_Assn

Blogs http://blog.tesol.org/category/blog

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ELT-Professionals-Around-World-3460329?home=&gid=3460329&trk=anet_ug_hm

Delicious https://delicious.com

Learning Communities

Nings http://community.eflclassroom.com/

Live sessions http://live.classroom20.com/

Participant blogs

Aggregates social media

Groups

Resources

Participant support

Learning communities

Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org

TESOL Community http://community.tesol.org/welcome.htm

Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com

Search Engines

Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go, Ask Jeeves…..

News

Media resources (videos, books, images, maps….)

Feeds

Specialty elements – “Google Scholar”

Locate information quickly

Libraries

In person http://www.brocku.ca/library

Online access to many http://ebooks.nypl.org/B0B04746-19BA-42D7-AD62-093A5015BC4A/10/257/en/Default.htm

SlideShare

http://www.slideshare.net/lionnagaraju/teaching-english-sounds

http://www.slideshare.net/mrpottz/presentations

PodCasts or SoundCloud

Podomatic http://eltchatpodcast.podomatic.com

SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/search?q=tesol

Miscellaneous Support pages

InstitutionalADMC http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/hd1/english.htm

GovernmentBBC Active http://www.bbcactive.com

Commercial Grammar Girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com

Organisational British Council http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en

Enhance

TweetDeck

Instructional Videos

Ted Talks

Vimeo

TeacherTube

YouTube

Courses

Organisation

Too many resources

Separate email

Push information to you

Consider an aggregator

Find a time balance

Organisation

Diigo https://www.diigo.com

Free

Browser plug in

All personal links stored on one server

Nik’s Personal Diigo https://www.diigo.com/profile/nikpeachey

Diigo Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/clifsnotes4

Organisation

Paper.li http://paper.li/SusieLenny/1346715679?goback=.gde_3460329_member_223660040

http://paper.li/stephentimothy/tesol

Create (tailor to your needs)

Subscribe (who has the time?)

Can be a teaching tool (for your students)

Tutorial http://www.screenr.com/embed/92Ss

Live binders

American TESOL http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/292127?present=true

Organisation

Scoop.it! http://www.scoop.it/t/esl-ideas

Pinterest http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=esl

Passive organisation

RSS Feeds http://feeds.feedburner.com/breakingnewsenglish

Google Alerts http://www.google.ca/alerts

LinkedIn Feeds to email

Questions