1. Personally learning
network
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Initials: N.F NDLOVU
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2. Personal learning network
 PLN is an informal learning that consist of
the people a learner interact or
collaborate with and derives knowledge
from personal learning environment.
 In PLN, A person makes a connection with
another person with specific intent that
some type of learning occurs because of
that connection/

3. Using Social Media to
develop your own
Personal Learning
Network

4. Ways to build PLN
 Need to actively make ties – its not enough to just
follow and read, an individual need to read, reply
to the question and start the conversation to
connect and share their perspective with others.
 Join twitter, educators can chat to connect and
collaborate and chat with twitter to share your
thought, documents and presentation

5. What is Social Media
Social software,
software that
supports group
communications
Shirky C, 2003
Technologies that
enable
communication,
collaboration,
participation and
sharing.
Hughes A, 2009 for JISC

6. Social Media: An Ecology
An ecology, habitat, or studio is simply the space
for fostering connections. Networks occur within
something. They are influenced by the
environment and context of an organization,
school, or classroom. Certain ecologies are more
conducive to forming connections. ...
Connection barriers are aspects of an ecology. ...
The nature of the ecology influences the ease,
type, and health of networks created
(Siemans 2007)

7. Fitting the right pieces together is
personal to you

8. Personal learning network
 Learners get the chance to interact and
collaborate and derives knowledge from
the personal learning environment.
 Connect with FACEBOOK AND TWITTER,
and this are one of the most powerful
tools for growing, sharing and maintaining
a personal network

9. Sir Ken Robinson (2010) RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

10. Use a PLN for asking and answering questions

11. Use a PLN to collaborate on projects

12. Use a PLN to get feedback on your own work or seek
inspiration from others

13. A PLN may include specific tools to help you get
organised

14. A PLN may include following blogs and websites

15. A PLN may also include a private space to reflect

16. Remember it’s a dialogue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khalidalbaih/565
3817859

17. Personal
Learning
Environments
Graham Attwell

18. We Teach Our Children By
Using Tools
©Edupic colouring books

19. Connectivism Underpinnings
People learn
through their
connections
to other
people,
places and
ideas.
©Edupic colouring books

20. Too many choices

21. Quotes form twitter
 @redstarvip: Give away everything you know,
and more will come back to you
 @peasandqs PLNs end the isolation felt in small
school divisions. I am part of a greater "whole".

22. So how does a network help
me?

23. New Tools

24. http://wordle.net/

25. How do I start
 Sign up with twitter Facebook and all
other social network and that to connect
and cooperate with other people and
share, derive and grow your knowledge

26. Other Tools for PLN

27. Personal Learning
Environments - a concept
based on Web 2 .0 and
social software

28. The reform and reshaping
of social systems and
institutions has tended to
lag behind in periods of
rapid technological
change

29. but the changing ways in which people are
using technologies to communicate and to
learn and the accompanying social effect of
such use

30. Web logs

31. The reaction of education systems and
institutions to the rise of social networking
has been at best bewilderment, at worst
downright hostility

32. We have to review the industrial schooling
model including the organization of institutions
and pedagogy and curriculum

33. It is not just young people
who use social software for
learning

34. Social software is
widely used in
the workplace
for informal
learning

35. Google is the most used e-learning
application

36. most learning is
unaccredited

37. PLEs are not another
substantiation of
educational
technology but a new
approach to learning

38. A response to pedagogic approaches which
require that learner’s e-learning systems need to
be under the control of the learners themselves.

39. and recognise the needs of life-long learners for a
system that provides a standard interface to
different institutions’ e-learning systems, and that
allows portfolio information to be maintained across
institutions.

40. PLE are based on the idea
that learning will take place in
different contexts and
situations and will not be
provided by a single learning
provider

41. the idea of a Personal
Learning Environment
recognises that learning is
continuing and seeks to
provide tools to support that
learning

42. Using whatever tools and
devices which the learners

43. PLEs can help in the recognition of
informal learning.
PLEs can develop on the potential of
services oriented architectures for
dispersed and networked forms of
learning and knowledge development.

44. The promise of Personal
Learning Environments
could be to extend
access to educational
technology to everyone
who wishes to organise
their own learning.

45. A system that helps learners take control of and
manage their own learning. This includes providing
support for learners to
Personal Learning
Environment
Source: Wikipedia
set their own
learning
goals
manage their
learning
communicat
e with others
ccSteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

46. Personal Web Tools
n = 56 Teachers
Microblogging 46 Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr
Blogging 26 Wordpress, Blogger
Collaborative writing 12 Wikispaces, Etherpad, Google Docs, PB
Task Management tool 10 RTM, Ubiquity, Evernote
Search engine 13 Google, Yahoo
Social network 12 Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning
Social tagging/bookmark 24 Delicious, Diigo, Xmarks,
Stumbleupon
Social presence 14 Skype, Adobe Connect
Image/Video sharing 12 Flickr, Picassa, YouTube
E-mail 16 Gmail, other e-mail web services
E-Portfolio 2 Mahara
Other organisational tool 3 Dropbox, Coda, Zotero
Aggregators (incl. RSS) 7 Feedly, Friendfeed, Netvibes, iGoogle
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

47. External
Services Web
2.0
Self organised
Institutionally
managed
Adapted from David Delgado, 2007
E-Portfolio
Aggregato
r
Social
Network
Personal Learning Environment Model
Blog
LMS
Personal
Learning
Environment
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

48. Functions of a Personal Learning
Environment
PLE
Find contentFind people
Create content
Organise content
Communicate
Discuss
Collaborate
Connect
Share content
Compete Reuse content
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
LEARNING

49. references
attwell, g. (2007). personal learning environment learning environment. university of south Danmark.
Beckinghamis…& walker, L (2006) using social media to develop your own personal learning network:
university of Dundee
BOONCASLE ,d (2009) creating personal learning network. Regina: university of serkatchewan
hopkins, d. (2009). learning personal environment. uk: university of bournemou.
wheeler, s. (2010). future of learning. UK: University of plymount.
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