Managing Your Own Learning

Bob Bertsch & Sonja FuchsWeb Technology SpecialistsNDSU Ag Communication

Who’s Managing Your Learning

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW7aBOPYHx0

Formal education is a walk through the zoo, informal learning is a walk through the savannah. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/godutchbaby/4432480199/

Formal education is knowing a tomato is a fruit, informal learning is not using it in fruit salad. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaspantry/3554762608/

Formal education is bricks and mortar, social learning is clouds and streamshttp://stephenwhart.com/quotes/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/

Formal education is the playbook, social learning is the huddlehttp://stephenwhart.com/quotes/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/55214370/

What is a learning network?

a deliberately formed network of people and resources capable of guiding our

independent learning goals and professional development needs.

Content Commentary Research ConversationExperience

Colleagues FriendsExperts

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YOU

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Adapted from “Creating a Personal Learning Network,” http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387

My learning network?

Content

Zite

Flipboard

Google Reader

Google Alerts

Social

Twitter

Facebook

Google +

Curation

Diigo

Pinterest

Scoop.it

Google Alerts

Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results -- such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs -- that match your search term. You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web.

For example, people use Google Alerts to:• find out what is being said about their company or product.• monitor a developing news story.• keep up to date on a competitor or industry.• get the latest news on a celebrity or sports team.• find out what's being said about themselves.

• http://www.google.com/alerts• Delivered by email (daily, weekly, or as

found)• RSS available for Google accounts

Google Alerts

Content

• blogs• news sites• online journals• videos• podcasts• social media

YOUlaptop - http://www.flickr.com/photos/computermonger/, smartphone - http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewcf/, ipad - http://www.flickr.com/photos/leondel/.

Online content for your learning network?

What are RSS feeds?

• RSS = Really Simple Syndication

• Feeds allow websites to send updates to you without you having to visit the site to get it

• There are three common types of feeds - RSS, XML and Atom

• As an end user, it doesn't really matter which format the site uses

• You can subscribe to a feed from any website and read all your feeds in a feed reader, in your browser or in some email clients

Feed Reader

Blogs

Google alerts Podcasts

Feed-enabled sites

Utilities

News RSS feeds

Blog RSS

Blogs typically offer feeds of their posts, and sometimes comments. The feed may contain the full post, or just an excerpt.

Google Reader

http://www.google.com/reader

Power/value of network

• Exposure to incidental information– You don’t know what you need to know

• Asking questions• Connectedness• Awareness of trends• What are others doing / talking about

• Exposure to incidental information– You don’t know what you need to know

• Asking questions

• Connectedness

• Awareness of trends

• What are others doing / talking about

How to find people

• Start with who you already know• Connections:

– Who follows you?– Who do they follow?– Who follows them?– Who do they retweet?– Look at lists

• Start with who you already know

• Find people to follow?

• Who do they follow?

• Who follows them?

• Who do they retweet and repin

Outside the network

• Speakers at conferences• Authors• Business cards• Email signatures

Find by topic

• Hashtags (e.g., #netlit, #mfln)• Search• Websites• Subject matter experts

Search for Topics on Twitter• Go to twitter.com

or search.twitter.com

• Type a topic in the search bar

• Use the “Tweets” tab for people who have tweeted the term

Search for Topics on Twitter

Check for better search results by using a hashtag.

• Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context to tweets. 

• You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

• Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.

Your activity matters

• If you are active in online networks, and engage with others, interesting people will find you.

• For example:– @JerryBuchko and Military Families Learning

Network and Network Literacy

Harold Jarche – www.jarche.com

Connect With Us:• Twitter - twitter.com/ndbob

- twitter.com/SonjaNDSU• Facebook - facebook.com/NDSUAgCommWebServices• Email – robert.bertsch@ndsu.edu

- sonja.fuchs@ndsu.edu