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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. Classroom 2.0

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. Classroom 2.0

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Effective Web Conferences – 41 Resources

Tony Karrer

I wanted to follow-up 19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences with some additional resources that relate to this topic. Online Conference Formats - eLearning Technology , April 23, 2009 Also, if you are interested in future conferences , please go sign up on the Learn Trends Ning Group. You can find some of the recordings here.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

When he moved to consulting and didn’t have an IT department and those resources, he realized he had to do something different. Too much information. These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management. My side comments are in italics. Sense-making with PKM.

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Remote Collaboration

Tony Karrer

It resulted in a great learning experience and a quite good resource. Asynchronous Discussion I personally have found that Ning works great as a tool for all sorts of different needs. Creating a new Ning network is very easy and it gives you a lot of what you would want / need as a work team.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in social networks. I have been part of Ning groups before, but find it overwhelming, very quickly because there seems to be multiple inputs for information. Even as an organizer, when I get into the Ning group, I feel overwhelmed.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform. I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites. Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0