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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true.

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In which ways do you use social media for your own learning?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

His presentation was last Friday and he experimented with a Twitter backchannel. Unfortunately because people there might not have been on Twitter, it worked mainly to get input from outside the conference into the conference. Answers on twitter: It mostly helps me to link to new, unexpected thoughts, people, websites.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Social bookmarks. Social and professional networks such as Facebook and Twitter. News feeds, podcasts, blogs, wikis and discussion forums.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0 Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0:

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Connectivism and the modern learner

E-Learning Provocateur

This is the new process of “learning&#. In a sense, connectivism is about self-organising our personal learning networks. Consider the following: Create a social bookmarking account to share useful websites. Use Twitter and Facebook to foster social/professional networking.

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Dissection: What's a PLN?

E-Learning Acupuncture

Personal Learning Network. It's my Twitter client. Delicious social bookmarking. Saves my bookmarks and makes them available anywhere I go (library, friend's house, work, home, iPhone, etc.) Tags: social networking tools collaboration PLN. Have you heard this term - PLN? Archiving 6.