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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

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Forums vs. Social Networks?

Clark Quinn

I'm debating the value of forum / group / threaded discussion software vs. social network software for a particular situation. Social Network Examples are Ning and KickApps. They form a network of people via interactions, groups, etc. Being a network, they generally are a little harder for people to understand.

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Network-Feedback Question

eLearning Cyclops

This month's question on the Learning Circuits Blog is regarding the best place to network, or receive feedback. I have used Facebook, Linked In, and I blog, but I still find that user groups , such as groups in Google and Yahoo, have been the best way to network.

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Social Networking with Roto-Rooter

Skilful Minds

You know social networking is going mainstream when service companies like Roto-Rooter start using it. As he handed me the receipt he also gave me a flyer that asked me to go to either Google, Yahoo, Citysearch, or superpages.com and write a review of the service. The guy came out like always, did the job, and I paid him.

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“Current Need-to-Know Tools and What’s Around the Corner” Nick Floro #olconf

Learning Visions

Personal learning networks. Find a peer network. Google Hangouts – great way to talk to your team, your SMES. Check out the google hangouts page with video as a background – a way to pull people into the content and engage them. Google Analytics. Yahoo Weather. How do we find things today? Video sharing.

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

We say “we’re instructional designers, we don’t deal with autonomous learners&# but they go out and use Google anyway. School has confused us into thinking learning is about information dumps, not “tuning the network&#. Knowledge Sharing Spaces (SharePoint, Blackboard, Yahoo Groups). Virtual Worlds.