Why build Your Own PLN
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The document discusses the use of Twitter as a tool for building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) among educators, emphasizing its role in facilitating real-time conversations, sharing resources, and increasing engagement during the ACEC 2010 conference in Melbourne, Australia. It highlights various themes such as improved communication, collaboration, and the effective processing of shared information within the education community. Ultimately, it underscores the importance of using social media to enhance professional development and connect with like-minded peers.
Why build Your Own PLN
- 1. Build your own PLN By Roland Gesthuizen DEECD, Victoria Australia http://about.me/rgesthuizen
- 2. Writing online ● Blogging ● Microblogging Twitter ● Blog site ● Twit (or Tweecher) ● Blogger ● Brief, text updates of only 140 characters ● Increasingly used for building a PLN
- 3. Online conversations ● People sharing ● Responding to – Insights, – an event – beliefs, – each other – ideas, and – emotions
- 4. Following a Twitter Stream ● Increase the ● Reading a hash tag likelihood that a is following a Twitter message can be “stream”. found and read
- 5. Twitter to share ● Posts may be viewed ● And processed to – Directly online – create amalgamated http://twitter.com report (storify) – Embedded on a – remixed with new website content (or mashup) – visualisation tool – create different (TweetDeck) visualisation (Wordle) Broadcast and further distributed using Twitter, prompting others to try and do the same or to create a new derivative work.
- 6. Conference Twitter Hashtags ● e.g. #ACEC2010 ● Are multiple ● Not a single monologues with distributed some discontinuous, conversation loosely joined between users dialogues between users (Ross et al. 2011, 2)
- 7. Retweeting ● Popular users ● Popular posts can be – are often retweeted – Reposted – are added to a – Further distributed shared specialist list and shared – Can be followed – 'Retweeted' (beginning of PLN)
- 8. Back channels ● Enable the ● Not regulated by the mainstream event – Sharing of notes ● Increasingly an integral – Asking questions part of events – Engage in dialogue ● Discussions may appear – Stimulate debate – prosaic ● Invite and embrace the – highly personal participation of – challenging members beyond the physical event.
- 9. ● “Read and Regurgitate Syndrome” ● New users distracted ● Mindless sharing and as they try to repetition without any immerse themselves deep analysis, in the technology reflection or review whilst listening to a (McKeown 1999) presentation.
- 11. ACEC 2010 Conference ● 6 to 9 April 2010 ● Over 7 days data ● Melbourne, Australia ● 474 Twitter users ● 800 delegates ● 6034 messages
- 12. Educators use a PLN ● For professional support ● invite dissenting and encouragement voices, ideas and ● to inspiration to improve opinions ● learning by following ● to push new ideas others ● reinforce self-perception ● as a creative spark as educators ● share a response ● a new idea amplifier
- 14. Processing workflow ● Data collected from Processing – converted to a plain text file – Topsy Search Engine – further processed to capture the date, time and message sender – HTML file of posts of message post – imported into spreadsheet for analysis. – validate and bench test the effectiveness of the search results from the Topsy engine.
- 15. Some users posted many, Many users posted some
- 16. Many users reshared messages
- 17. Some very, very complex posts Five different hash tags for five potentially different audiences: – 08/04/10 15:33 @sandynay RT @katemreid: #acec2010 @pryorcommitment #Connect, #Collaborate & #Create All verbs because they about #action - things we can actually do! Five different users to an expanded PLN – 08/04/10 16:29 @lordfolland #ACEC2010 a place for expanding my PLN to include @ackygirl, @bronst, @katemreid, @jessmcculloch and @mountainmoss Four different hyperlinks to resources being discussed in a session – 09/04/10 11:31 @mentormadness #ACEC2010 Lookin @ Pageflakes http://bit.ly/5oHrZ - Netvibes http://bit.ly/13T425 - iGoogle http://bit.ly/b8u0 - diigo http://bit.ly/A1ysf
- 18. Users overcame the space limitation ● To connect, share and collaborate with other participants. – Link shortening tools – Codified language ● RT, MT, HT, OT via ● LOL, ROTFL etc ● :-) :-o :-(
- 20. Time and Space dimension Posting peaks ● Twitter used with a wider – directly before the event community to – 9 am keynote – reflect on daily posts – late into the evening – organise social events Messages posted – share resources – Most (96%) during event ● Keynote Gary Stager generated considerable – (3%) before less (1%) later public discussion and debate about ideas he raised.
- 21. Friends we haven't met yet 05/04/10 19:51 @teachernz @jennyluca watch/read what others tweet, help someone, answer/ask a question, share your students' work, lurk, learn & engage #ACEC2010 04/04/10 23:33 @pryorcommitment Hoping to meet some people from other states at #ACEC2010 Don't know many NSW people. Would be good to meet as well as share tweets :-) 05/04/10 15:48 @jjash @sandynay looking forward to meeting up with all my PLN at #acec2010 :) CU at cocktails? 06/04/10 09:06 @Steve_Collis Funny - the whole value of #ACEC2010 for me is meeting my Twitter friends face to face (very special), and making new friends.
- 22. Users shared Twitter artefacts ● Word clouds, trend maps ● Perhaps a desire for a 'big-picture' view ● to help look for patterns and themes ● to better understan what happened ● to synthesise new understandings
- 23. Theme 1: A PLN improves the conference engagement for some participants ● To reflect upon what was happening. ● 09/04/10 13:00@ahiskens For those at Alan November's 5pm ● Fluid discussion workshop on Wed - food for thought on the copyright discussion from @billt - ● Further debate and http://bit.ly/ccU4mf #acec2010 delibration invited ● 09/04/10 21:07@lindawollan ● Keynote speakers joining the Still thinking about Gary Stager's keynote. Challenging.... did anyone find any Twitter stream to clarify positives?? #acec2010 points and answer questions ● Source new PLN members ● 08/04/10 17:32@smartinez @mountainmoss it's going to take a while to get through all the emails and follow people back... but i will! #acec2010
- 24. Theme 2: A PLN affords communication with other participants which might not otherwise occur ● Participants outside the ● 09/04/10 09:01 @sujokat This link works for ustream of gary stager at conference venue shared #ACEC2010 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/technology- – what was happening in real time in-education-show by @stevecollis – notes using broadcasting tools – resources ● 09/04/10 10:53 @suehatwilkes #acec2010 SueH from Canada invites U2 ● Participants in physically meet Ian Jukes online 04/13 @ 5:30 pm different rooms following and PDT. Goto http://tinyurl.com/ykddjky for Elluminate link & pswd responding to twitter posts
- 25. Theme 3: A PLN is a powerful way to share professional and intellectual resources. ● Participants used Twitter to ● 07/04/10 08:28 @dakinane @staceykelly #ACEC2010 thanks for the follow. – promote their conference notes Will be posting to my blog throughout the conference http://dakinane.com/blog – share personal reflections ● Attract new members from ● 09/04/10 06:58 @ashleyproud Do I dare plug my blog1 more time? conference Twitter stream http://oneofthosepeople.edublogs.org/ Should I be brave and put #acec2010 on it? :) ● Expand their PLN #last_shameless_plug ● From ideas raised at the conference, evidence of – Reporting – analysis – deep reflection
- 26. Further Research ● Examine this data and the artefacts shared ● Identify what tangible changes in practice might result from participation in a conference and PLN
- 27. Summary An online conference PLN can be the site of personally meaningful communications
- 28. Summary Learning and engaging with like-minded peers at a conference event using social media tools is a powerful way for educators to build a personal learning network and take direct charge of their professional lives.
- 29. 'Only 16 percent of teachers surveyed agree that there is a climate of cooperative effort among staff members in their schools.' (Wei, Darling-Hammond, and Adamson 2010, 20)
- 30. For organisations today 'Agility, context, and a strong network are becoming the survival traits where assets, control, and power used to rule' (Ito 2011)