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Crafting a #PLN

EdTech

The following are my notes for a preso on Crafting a PLN.

Crafting a 

Personal Learning Network

Session Overview:

Today, we have the potential to tap into a flow of conversation, a web-based learning ecology, that we can learn from 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Who you choose to follow in that conversation is YOUR PLN. We’ll explore some of the workflows.

‘appy Connections

Activity Outline

Apps Featured:

  1. Haiku Deck

  2. Twitter

  3. Hootsuite

Video Tutorials:

  1. 15-minute Intro to Twitter and PLNs

  2. Creating a Twitter List

  3. HootSuite Video (Outside of ECISD at YouTube)

Articles To Read-n-Tweet About:

  1. Utilize Twitter Chats for PD

  2. Personal Learning Networks - Advice from the Trenches

  3. New Face of PD

  4. 5 Ways To Get Quality PD This Summer

  5. Hitch Your Wagon

Slideshow: 

Twitter Tornado of Connected Learning

(created in Haiku Deck presentation app, then dropped into Explain Everything)

Activities:

Setup Your Twitter account & Hootsuite.com

Exploring Hashtags:

EC3 Teacher Academy - #ec3ta13

EC Tech Ops - #ectobuzz

Education - #edchat

iPads in Education - #ipaded

Twitter List Setup - Follow specific people

Now You Try It:

Organize Your Hashtags in Hootsuite streams on your computer, then setup Hootsuite on your iPad.

  Read one of these articles and tweet a “take-away.” Add hashtag of #ec3ta13 at the end.

Apps Featured:

  1. Read It Later’s Pocket app

  2. Zite Magazine App

  3. Flipboard

Slideshow: 

Drinking from the Internet Firehose

Activities:

Create Your Pocket account (Computer)

    Install the Pocket app on your iPad

Check out Miguel’s Workshop Materials online at http://mglearns.wikispaces.com

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