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Personal Learning Networks
Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education
The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. To prepare students to flourish in this new learning world, schools will need to transform themselves in important ways. This book is a road map for any educator thinking about using the web for learning. Build your own learning network, and use learning networks in the classroom and schoolwide to improve student outcomes.
Benefits
- Learn the importance of exploring Internet tools in your own life before bringing them into your classroom.
- Understand tools such as Twitter, social bookmarking, RSS feeds, blogs, and Facebook.
- Read real-world stories from teachers who have created PLNs.
- Utilize a three-step plan to build a learning network throughout your school or district.
- Identify four common hurdles most schools face when implementing learning networks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Power of Networked Learning
Chapter 1: Understanding the Power of PLNs
Chapter 2: Becoming a Networked Learner
Chapter 3: Implementing a Networked Classroom
Chapter 4: Becoming a Networked School
Chapter 5: Ensuring Success of Learning Network Adoption
Epilogue: The Future of Schooling
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- Tony Baldasaro (blog)
- Twitter (social networking)
- Will Richardson (Twitter account)
- Rob Mancabelli (Twitter account)
- Alan Levine (Twitter account)
- Kathy Cassidy (Twitter account)
- Mark Sullivan (Twitter account)
- Shelly Blake-Plock (Twitter account)
- Pam Moran (Twitter account)
- Tom Barrett (Twitter account)
- Digital Media and Learning Central
- Jay Rosen (Twitter account)
- Edutopia (Twitter account)
- Lee Kolbert (Twitter account)
- Twitter4Teachers Wiki
- Mashable (How to Use Twitter Lists)
- TweetDeck (Tweet management tool)
- TinyURL (link-shortening tool)
- Bitly (link-shortening tool)
- Cybrary Man (Twitter hashtags for education)
- Delicious (bookmarking and network building)
- Diigo (information management)
- Google News (news aggregator)
- Google Blog Search
- Blogger (blog hosting)
- Facebook (social networking)
- TwitPic (Twitter media sharing)
- Clarence Fisher rubric
Chapter 3
- Arapaho High School videoconference with Daniel Pink
- Ustream (sharing and discussing media)
- Brian Crosby (TED talk)
- Learning Is Messy (student-made videos)
- Google Calendar
- 21 Classes (creating virtual classrooms)
- Edublogs (educational blog hosting)
- Class Blogmeister (educational blog hosting)
- Classroom 2.0 (social networking for teachers)
- TodaysMeet (tool for sharing and discussing media)
- CoverItLive (text chat and discussion)
- Wikispaces (creating personal wikis)
- PBworks (online team collaboration)
- Edmodo (classroom networking)
- Ning (personalized social networking)
- Flickr (media hosting)
- Photobucket (image hosting)
- Jing (screencapture and screencast tools)
- Skype in the classroom
- Maria Knee (blog)
- William Chamberlain (Mr. C’s class blog)
- Dweeber (academic social networking)
- Creative Commons (copyrighting and sharing media)
- YouTube (video sharing)
- TeacherTube (video sharing for teachers)
- Glogster EDU (multimedia sharing)
- SlideShare (PDF, PowerPoint, and Word doc sharing)
- Audioboo (audio sharing)
- PLP Learning Network
- VoiceThread (multimedia sharing)
- Wright's Room (blog)
- TED Talks
Chapter 4
- Pam Moran (blog)
- Lawrence Lessig (TED talk)
- Sir Ken Robinson (TED talk)
- Michael Wesch (talk)
- Sugata Mitra (TED talk)
- Saint Joseph Digital Express (digital learning site)
- Moodle (free portal system)
- “Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development” (MacArthur Foundation)
- “Minds on Fire” (Brown and Adler)
- “2010 Horizon Report”
- “Footprints in the Digital Age” (Richardson)
- “Learning: Peering Backward and Looking Forward in the Digital Era” (Wiegel, James, and Gardner)
- “A World to Change” (Downes)
- “Learning from the Extremes” (Leadbeader and Wong)
- National Education Technology Plan 2010 (US Department of Education)
- “How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?” (Brockman)
- Yammer (social networking for private enterprises)
- Connected Principals (networking for principals)
- Evernote (recording and sharing media and ideas)
- Nozbe (task management)
Chapter 5