Building Your PLN
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The document discusses building a personal learning network (PLN) through Twitter and blogging. It recommends using Twitter to connect with other educators, collaborate by sharing resources and ideas, find information through hashtags and searches, and get students interested. Blogging is suggested to give students an authentic audience, increase motivation, and help them develop writing, reading, and communication skills while taking ownership of their learning. Various blogging platforms like Kidblog and Weebly are also mentioned.
Building Your PLN
- 1. Building your PLN: Twitter and Blogging By: Hugh McDonald @hughtheteacher Gallit Zvi @gallit_z
- 2. Shape of Day o Twitter o Twitter Exploration Time o Why Blog? o Blogging Exploration Time using Kidblog
- 3. All this… Thank you @courosa
- 4. Can Now be found Here!
- 5. Gaming Thank you @courosa
- 6. Two Players Thank you @courosa
- 7. Connections have Evolved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiR Ng&list=FLnYZoKqsu4pKrxdqyjnrNdw&index=9&f eature=plpp_video
- 8. Are we where our students are? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhpmEZWu RQ&feature=youtu.be Thank you @gcouos
- 9. Web 2.0: What it is? • Participation • Collaboration • Changing the way internet can be used in the classroom • Knowing, Wondering, Learning, & Sharing • Twitter, Blogging, Facebook, Google Docs, wikis, youtube etc…
- 11. What it isn’t? • Just consuming information from websites for content
- 12. Why Twitter? • “Twitter in 60 Seconds” http://www.slideshare.net/CatherineRitz/twitter-for-professional-development
- 13. Why Twitter? • Connections: Create your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) • Collaboration: Share resources and ideas with like minded teachers & students • Live Chats (#hashtags) • Research: Search for resources you need • Impress your students • Use new sites and resources even they haven’t heard of http://www.slideshare.net/CatherineRitz/twitter-for-professional-development
- 14. Benefits of a Twitter PLN http://linoit.com/users/mrsdkrebs/canvases/Joi ning%20the%20Conversation
- 15. Where are you joining the Conversation? • 1. I'm not interested. I don't get it. In fact, how did I get into this session anyway? • 2. I've been thinking about it, considering joining in. However, I don't know how. • 3. I'm ready to go! Just point me in the right direction. • 4. I've already joined the conversation, and I'm having lots of fun and making connections Denise Krebs https://sites.google.com/site/iowajoiningtheconversation2012/inspiration
- 16. Twitter Time! • Twitter app on your device or go to twitter.com
- 33. Starting Your Twitter PLN
- 35. Hashtag
- 36. Some Education Hashtags We Use • #sd36learn • #edchat • #bced • #1stchat, 5thchat etc… • #kinderchat • #geniushour • #choose2matter • #youmatter • #learn365 • #elemchat • #edtech
- 37. Why Blog with Students? • Authentic Audience • Increased Intrisic Motivation for the task • Engaged Learners
- 39. More Reasons to Blog • Share thoughts, ideas, and opinions, & support them with details that make understanding easy. –Pictures, captions, videos • Will learn to communicate effectively
- 40. Become better writers, both in content and mechanics.
- 41. Become better readers, improving comprehension and the ability to read critically.
- 42. Blog to a Worldwide Audience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgZ3X0e67Tc&feature=player_embedded
- 43. Take Ownership of their Own Learning
- 44. Use Web 2.0 technology as a tool to publish their work to share with their peers, family, and friends.
- 45. Blogging Platforms *Personal Weebly Blog if Students created own E-Portfolio website.
- 46. KidBlog
Editor's Notes
- #2: [twitter] starting our presentation on twitter&blogging for gr 4-7. Use [/twitter]
- #3: [twitter] info from our pro-d presentation today http://tinyurl.com/739bv27 [/twitter]
- #6: 1 person
- #7: 2 people
- #8: [twitter] http://tinyurl.com/8fjrtng#sd36learn #geniushour#bced [/twitter]
- #9: [twitter] http://tinyurl.com/y9d328v #sd36learn #geniushour #bced [/twitter]
- #11: [twitter] http://tinyurl.com/25evu3#sd36learn #geniushour #bced [/twitter]
- #12: [twitter] Hello PLN @gallit_z & I are presenting on Twitter. Use #sd36learn to tell us why use twitter [/twitter]
- #13: [twitter]Why tweet? http://tinyurl.com/37hawuw#sd36learn #bced[/twitter]
- #17: [twitter] #ff @gallit_z, @hughtheteacher, @librarymall, @amboe_k, @mrsdkrebs, @emscarlson, @seas_sd36 [/twitter]
- #34: [twitter] #ff @abvendramin, @courosa, @gcouros, @lirenmanlearns, @henriksent [/twitter]
- #35: [twitter]#ff @robynthiessen, @joykirr, @annemidd, @hcryanhc, @kathycassidy [/twitter]
- #36: [twitter] @cybraryman1 has a wonderful list of educational hashtags http://www.cybraryman.com/ [/twitter]
- #37: [twitter]#sd36learn,#edchat,#bced,5thchat, #kinderchat,#geniushour,#edtech #youmatter [/twitter]
- #38: [twitter] @gallit_z & I love using kidblog with our classes http://tinyurl.com/83bguke [/twitter]
- #40: [twitter] when posting links to student blogs try #comments4kids, #classblogs [/twitter]
- #41: [twitter] 10 ways @gallit_z & @hughtheteacher http://tinyurl.com/85tzmc8 [/twitter]
- #43: [twitter] Quadblogging vid example. Connecting classes around worldhttp://tinyurl.com/7e6bsaq [/twitter]
- #44: [twitter] our classes tweet too @mrszvisclass and @mcdclassroom [/twitter]
- #45: [twitter] @gallit_z & I tweet with our classes @mrszvisclass & @mcdclassroom [/twitter]
- #46: [twitter] you can use weebly for so much www.mrszvi.weebly.com www.mcdclassroom.weebly.com [/twitter]
- #49: [twitter] Check out the feedback from our 10:30 presentation at STA Convention 2012 tinyurl.com/6n4t62x [/twitter]