Creating a Twitter PLN/PLE and Social bookmarking

CREATING A TWITTER PLN/PLE AND SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Frank, Divergent Learner Creative Commons Licensed10/2012STEPHANIE DULMAGE

SESSION GOALS:

Define PLN and PLE Benefits of PLNs and PLEs Creating a PLN/PLE on Twitter 3 Elements of a PLN Using Twitter, Tweetdeck, and Twitterfall to

Manage Your PLN Social Bookmarking - Diigo, Pocket, Evernote Twitter PLN/PLE Resources

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WHAT IS A PLN OR PLE?

PLN is an acronym for personal learning network

PLE is an acronym for the tool that you create your personal learning environment in – Twitter, Moodle, Ning, Diigo,

Google Reader, Blogs, Wikis

Characteristics of a PLN A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the collection of people with

whom you engage and exchange information. They are the group of people who contribute to your knowledge and

understanding of topics in your field and beyond. Personal Learning Networks extend your learning through increased

reflection, while enabling you to learn as part of a global community. Networking online and finding individuals with whom you share

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PLN VS. PLE


BENEFITS OF PLNS

Supports knowledge construction through networks

Empowers learners to be self-led, independent knowledge seekers and creators

Allows for customization of learning specific to individual learning needs or interests.

highly collaborative, reflective, and inspirational

Fosters engagement with like-minded professionals

Meaningful professional development



Read it Later

Google +

Firefox

Google Chrome

STAGES/LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT IN PLN

Social Network Knowledge Construction

Identify - What’s Out There?

Lurk - How Do Things Work Here?

Contribute – What Can I Construct?

Create – What Can I Offer?

Lead – How Can I Lead or Mentor Others



Lead

Create

Contribute

LurkIdentify

3 ELEMENTS OF A STRONG PLN

Blogs/Microblogging Twitter Edublogs,

Social Bookmarking Diigo, Pinterest, Read it Later

Groups and Forums Educator’s PLN Classroom 2.0


CREATING TWITTER PLN

Set Up a Twitter Account

http://www.twitter.com 10/2012STEPHANIE DULMAGE

http://www.twitter.com/


Choose an avatar – photo of yourself or other logo

Create and post a bio

Add a link to your blog or web site

Find people/friends to follow

FINDING PEOPLE TO FOLLOW

Follow "hashtags“, "searches“ or people

Follow who your followers follow

Popular education hashtags/tweetchats:

#edchat, #edtech, #edreform, #mathchat, #gtchat,

#ntchat, #passiondriven, #nlearning, #scichat, #stem,#mathchat,

#spedchat, #k12, #elemchat, #midleved, #cpchat10/2012STEPHANIE DULMAGE

Join

@teachingquality

on Sept 20 (8:30-

9:30pm ET) for

#teaching2030

chat

USING TWITTER

Twitter: Log In Post comment in the “What’s Happening?” Box Comments need to be clear, concise, and 140

characters Click Tweet

Other Twitter Functions: Favorite, Reply, Delete


MANAGING TWEETCHATS/TWITTER

Tweetdeck Tweetdeck is a platform for organizing Twitter and

Twitter followers and much more:

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more.

TweetDeck you to customize your Twitter experience with columns, groups, saved searches and automatic updates helping you to stay updated with the people and topics you care about.

Tweetdeck allows you to tweet, share photos, videos or links.


http://www.tweetdeck.com/10/2012

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http://www.tweetdeck.com/

TWITTERFALL

Twitterfall

Twitterfall is a Twitter client specializing in real-time tweet searches. New tweets fall into the page.

Allows you to follow the stream of a hashtag or tweetchat.

Effective when participating in a webinar or tweetchat.


http://www.twitterfall.com 10/2012STEPHANIE DULMAGE

http://www.twitterfall.com/

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING


Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.

Bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bookmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_networking

EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL BOOKMARKING PLATFORMS

Diigo

Pocket

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Trunk.ly

Symbaloo

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DIIGO

Diigo Capabilities:

Bookmarks

Highlights and Sticky Notes

Public and Private Groups

Tags and Lists

Share and Network

Networking and Community



http://www.diigo.com/index

http://www.diigo.com/index

GETTING STARTED

Set up a Twitter Account

Create a Profile/Bio

Choose People to Follow

Set up a Tweetdeck

Follow a Hashtag or Tweetchat

Set up Twitterfall to manage Tweetchats

Identify, Lurk, Contribute, Create and…10/2012STEPHANIE DULMAGE


LEAD

What are your plans for creating a PLN?

How do you think this will benefit you?

What applications do you see for your colleagues and students?

How will this transform teaching and learning?

How will you use this to be a change agent in your classroom, school, district?


QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

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