PLN

This is a visual presentation/virtual handout on PLNs presented at the Try it On Monday workshop in Tokyo on April 24, 2010. If you’re not sure what a PLN is, read my previous post on this topic.

5 Tools for Developing your PLN on Prezi

How do you participate in your PLN? I conducted this survey using Google Forms. I got 63 responses while the form was live from April 6 – April 20, 2010. I started off by requesting participation through tweets. One week later, I had less than 25 responses and posted the survey on the Nings that I belong to as well. I sent direct messages to three people on twitter. I figured that I’d direct message three people a day to request their participation in the survey but I only did this on one day. I felt like a spammer. I wasn’t sure about twitter etiquette in this respect.

Google search of twits mentioning my PLN Participation survey

PLN Participation Survey Twits

I’m not sure exactly how many twits are represented by each graph but this Google search result shows trends in twitting about my PLN survey that included @drpresident and the words PLN survey.

The survey received responses from 21 countries:

Download: KML RSS | Make a map on MapMe.com

What is a PLN?

What is a PLN Anyway by Barbara Sakamoto
PLN: Your Personal Learning Network Made Easy by Kate Klingensmith
David Warlick’s image of PLN with links
Personal Learning Networks – The Beginning by David Warlick
What is a PLN? Or, PLE vs. PLN by Alec Couros

Why a PLN

Why a Personal Learning Network Voicethread by Steven Anderson
Why Do We Connect Videos by Shelly Terrell
Why Everyone Needs a Great PLN by Mary Beth Hertz
personal learning networks – the what, why and how by Darren Elliott
What is a PLN by Neal Chambers

How do you develop a PLN?

How to Build a Personal Learning Network by Richard Byrne
The CTO Challenge: Building Your Personal Learning Network by Miguel Guhlin
Wiki to help you build your PLN by Sue Waters
5 Things that You can Do to Begin Developing your PLN by Lisa Nielsen
Tools for your PLN – Web 2.0 Personal and Professional Learning Network(s) by Bill Graziadei
Twitter for Educators Ebook by H Dickens
100 Twitter Feeds to Make you a Better Teacher
Diigo V4 Sharing ~ build a personal learning network
Developing Your PLN: Stage 1 Twitter and Developing Your PLN: Stage 2 Diigo by Dodie Ainslie
Using Ning as a Professional Learning Network by Dianne Krause
How are (were?) you using Ning? by Tony Cervo
Using Social Network Sites to build Your PLN and Tech Tip Tuesday: Google Groups by Colette Cassinelli
Twibes for Twitter

Balanced Living

Work/Life Balance in a 2.0 World by Kevin Shadix
Stages of PLN Adoption by Jeff Utecht
8 Stages of PLN by Liz B. Davis

Other Workshops on PLN’s

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=205 (Jeff Utecht at K-12 Online Conference 2009)
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=187 (Brandi Caldwell at K-12 Online Conference 2009)
http://slides.diigo.com/list/derondurflinger/twitter (Deron Durflinger at Iowa 1:1 Institute)
http://weconnect.pbworks.com/PLN (Shelly Terrell’s We Connect Wiki)
http://sites.google.com/site/buildingapln/ (Michelle Bourgeois, Colleen Glaude, Katie Morrow at FETC 09)

Links from my prezi

What is a PLN?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwarlick/2382574289/sizes/o/

Why Build a PLN?

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NajbF7L0LKo

Virtual PLN

The Networked Teacher modified from http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/sizes/o/

Blogs and Microblogs

http://www.twitter.com

http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2009/05/10/update-international-school-teachers-roundup/

http://www.iol.ie/~inchvec/edutwittersdir.html

Twitter groups – http://twittgroups.com/index.php