PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

NETWORKS ALSO KNOWN AS

PERSONAL LEARNING

NETWORKS (PLN)

WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK?

WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK?

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS THEY

ARE A TERRIFIC WAY TO EXTEND YOUR

KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING OUTSIDE

YOUR CLASSROOM

IT IS THE ENTIRE COLLECTION OF

PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU ENGAGE AND

EXCHANGE INFORMATION, USUALLY

ONLINE.

MEANING PLN CONT....

PERSONAL LEARNING

NETWORK –

“A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO CAN

GUIDE YOUR LEARNING, POINT

YOU TO LEARNING

OPPORTUNITIES, ANSWER

YOUR QUESTIONS, AND GIVE

YOU THE BENEFIT OF THEIR

OWN KNOWLEDGE,

EXPERIENCE, AND WISDOM”

MEANING PLN CONT....

“PLN IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WILL

HEIGTHEN YOUR LEARNING, SUCH

PEOPLE CAN POINT YOU TO LEARNING

OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SHARING

RESOURCES AND EXPERIENCE, AND

THEY CAN ALSO ANSWER YOUR

QUESTIONS” (WILKINSON,2010)

BENEFITS OF PLN

LEARNING, SHARING

Contribute

SEEK TO BE

WORTH KNOWING

Tag everything

WHAT DOES MY PLN DO FOR ME?

CROFUT (2009) STRESSED THAT

SHE GOT TO HER PLN FOR MANY

THINGS SUCH AS;

LEARNING NEW THINGS

ASKING QUESTIONS

COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS

VALIDATION

CAMARADERIE

STAY IN TOUCH WITH FRIENDS

• ADD TOOLS/SERVICES

• CONNECT TO DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE

• CREATE ARTIFACTS

• CONNECT TO PEERS, EDUCATORS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS

• SHARE THOUGHTS, IDEAS, RESOURCES, ARTIFACTS

• CONNECT TO PROFESSIONALS AND EXPERTS VIA PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS

• COLLABORATE

• CONTRIBUTE

WHAT DOES MY PLN DO FOR ME

CONT….

(IVANOVA, 2009)DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK

All that we send into the lives of others

…comes back into

All that we send into the lives of

others

…comes back into our own

Reciprocity

“THE PRACTICE OF EXCHANGING

THINGS WITH OTHERS FOR MUTUAL

BENEFIT” SIMPLIFIED-YOU SCRATCH MY

BACK I'LL SCRATCH YOURS TOO.

“TEACHERS ARE

NODES,

STUDENTS ARE

NODES

BOTH

TEACHING AND

LEARNING

CONSISTS OF

SENDING AND

RECEIVING

COMMUNICATIO

NS TO OTHER

NODES”

BUT A NETWORK ISN’T JUST FOLLOWING

YOU HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE!

RESPOND TO BLOG POSTS-NB!! YOU SCRATCH MY

BACK THEN I’LL DO LIKEWISE.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23324812@N00/93936385

SHARE WITH

OTHERS AS YOU

WOULD HAVE

THEM SHARE

WITH YOU WHICH

WILL BE THE

RESULTANT OF

MUTUAL

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLN

FLICKR=http://flickr.com

SLIDEFLICKR=http://slideflickr.com/

DIIGO.COM=http://www.diigo.com

SLIDESHARE.NET=http://www.slideshare.ne

t

DEL.ICIO.US=http://del.icio.us/

TWITTER=http://www.twitter.com

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLN EXPLAINED

SLIDESHARE.NET

http://www.slideshare.net

Upload, find, and share presentations

Great for publicly posting copies of a

presentation you give.

Don’t reinvent the wheel! Presentations

available on just about any subject.

Can be slow to load

Distinct URLs for linking

DIIGO.COM

http://www.diigo.com

Highlight, annotate, bookmark, tag web

pages, and share them

Create and share specific bookmark lists

Create workgroups!

View the annotations of other users on a

page

DO YOU TWEET?

http://www.twitter.com

What are you doing now?

Anything you can say in 140 characters or

less!

Automatically uses http://tinyurl.com/ to

shrink long URLs

Tweet from phone, IM, or browser

Those you follow and those who follow you

become your Personal Learning Network

DEL.ICIO.US

http://del.icio.us/

Social Bookmarking

Bookmark, tag, organize, and share internet

sites

Makes your bookmarks browser/computer

independent!

Browser tool bar makes use a snap

FLICKR

http://flickr.com

One of the most popular image sharing sites

on the Internet

Requires a free Yahoo ID

It’s a good idea to make a Yahoo ID anyway

so that you can use the email account for

your networking registrations.

CONCLUSION As a teacher its important to teach in a way that is

relevant to the world around us and to the

generation of our students. This can be done by

expanding our PLN, we can teach with new online

tools, find ways to introduce paperless classrooms

and find new resources. Being a teacher that is

fluent in technology will certainly organize your

mind as a teacher as well as your students.

Be creative, step out of your comfort zone and give

your students a classroom where resources and

knowledge is at their fingertips

(Wilkinson,2010)

CONCLUSION CONT…

THUS THIS ASSIGNMENT WENT INTO

GREATER DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING;

WHAT DOES PLN MEAN, WHAT'S THERE

FOR PEOPLE TO BENEFIT FROM PLN

AND LASTLY IT GAVE THE LIST AS WELL

AS EXPLAINED BRIEFLY THE DIFFERENT

TYPES OF PLN.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(Wilkinson,2010)

(DOWNES,2009)

(KELLER, 2008)

(CROFUT, 2009)

(IVANOVA, 2009)

BIBLIOGRAPHY CONT… Crofut. S, (2009) "Professional (Personal) Learning Networks. Available

from:

http://conference2009.tie2.wikispaces.net/Professional+(Personal)+Lear

ning+Networks.

(Accessed 11 March 2013)

Downes, S. (2009). New Tools for Personal Learning. MEFANET 2009

Conference. Brno, Czech Republic.

Ivanova, M. (2009). From Personal Environment Building to

Professional Learning Network Forming. The 5th

International Scientific Conference. Sofia-Bulgaria:

Technical University.

keller, C. (2008). Creating Your Own Personal Learning

Network. Summer Professional Development Institute.

Whitehall, PA: Summer Professional Development Institute,

Whitehall, PA.

Wilkinson, K. (Director). (2012). Importance of PLN in