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Creating Personal Learning Networks
•Deirdre Bonnycastle• Clinical Teaching Development
• College of Medicine
• University of Saskatchewan
Humans are Tool Users
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We Teach Our Children By Using Tools
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Connectivism Underpinnings
•People learn
•through their
•connections
•to other
•people,
•places and
•ideas.
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Definitions•PLE
•Personal Learning Environment
•PLN
•Personal Learning Networks
At a higher education level,
the focus shifts from learning
foundational skills to
participating in and contributing
to the expansion of knowledge.
•- George Siemens “Connectivism”
My participation in the expansion of knowledge
Blogs
Ning
Wikis
My contribution to the expansion of knowledge
•Active Learning Blog Carnival
•2,256 readers since November
•Medical Education Wiki
• 100 Members
• 400 Followers
Your Stories
IssuesToo Many Choices
Too Much Information
What do I want to
learn more about?
Ask Yourself
Getting StartedStart Small
Twitter between you and two colleagues
Check out
•http://twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/
K-12 follow
@coolcatteacher @edtechcowgirl
@angelamaiers
http://www.twibes.com/group/k12Ed
Higher Ed follow
@gsiemens @courosa @scopecommunity
@downes @mwesch
Getting StartedRead The Active Learning Blog Carnival
http://activelearningcarnival.blogspot.com/
Pick one or two of the blogs you like and follow them
Learn to use RSS feeds and get Google Reader
Get a Google Alert feed
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&gl=
Getting StartedOpen a personal diigo account
http://www.diigo.com/index
Find others to share resources with
Join a diigo group like K-12Librarians
or Images4Education
Getting StartedJoin a NING Group
Images4Educationhttp://images4education.ning.com/
Classroom 2.0http://www.classroom20.com/
Future of Educationhttp://www.futureofeducation.com/
Join a Moodle Group
Integrating Technologyhttp://www.integrating-technology.com/pd/
SCoPEhttp://scope.bccampus.ca/
What do I know that
I might want to
share?
Ask Yourself
Sharing what you know
•Write a blog
•Contribute to a wiki
•Teach an online course for teachers
•Create an online course for teachers
•Create a NING for your discipline
•Tweet
•????
Quotes•@redstarvip: Give away everything you
know, and more will come back to you
•@peasandqs PLNs end the isolation felt in small school divisions. I am part of a greater "whole".