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” (KELLER ; 2008)

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

Personal Learning

Environment

• CONNECT TO PEERS, EDUCATORS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS

• SHARE THOUGHTS, IDEAS, RESOURCES, ARTIFACTS

Personal learning network

• CONNECT TO PROFESSIONALS AND EXPERTS VIA PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS

• COLLABORATE• CONTRIBUTE

Professional Learning Network

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 NODESBOTH TEACHING AND LEARNING CONSISTS OF SENDING AND RECEIVING COMMUNICATIONS TO OTHER NODES” (DOWNES,2009)

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 BENEFITIAL.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLN

FLICKR=http://flickr.com SLIDEFLICKR=http://slideflickr.com/ DIIGO.COM=http://www.diigo.com SLIDESHARE.NET=http://

www.slideshare.net 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)+Learning+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 education [Motion Picture].