PersonalLearningNetworks

=ISTE attendee= =Using Social Media Applications to Build Your Personal Learning Network= //original editors:// Lois Lindell& [|Leigh Zeitz]

Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) using **today's** Web 2.0 tools provide users with a mechanism to manage information flows from the web. Contribute to our growing collection of resources on learning networks!

Please remember to complete the online evaluations about this workshop before the end of the 3-hour session.
 * EVALUATIONS:**
 * [|Evaluation Form]**

**Origins of PLNs:**

 * Connectivisim - Learning Theory by George Siemens (http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=anw8wkk6fjc_14gpbqc2dt)
 * [|Origins of the Term PLN by Stephen Downes] (http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/10/origins-of-term-personal-learning.html)
 * Personal Learning Environments by Graham Attwell ( http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/personal-learning-environments-46423)
 * [|Personal Learning Networks - The Beginnings by David Warlick] (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=1704)


 * General PLN Resources:**
 * 10 Principles for the Future of Learning (http://www.eduratireview.com/2009/07/10-principles-for-future-of-learning.html)
 * Building a Healthy PLN (http://ade-ple.wikispaces.com/resources)
 * Cultivating Your PLN ( http://davidwarlick.com)/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.TheArtAmpTechniqueOfCultivatingYourPersonalLearningNetwork?action=rss_
 * How A PLN is Born ( http://mollybob.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/how-a-pln-is-born/)
 * How I Built My PLN ( http://amcult20.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-i-built-my-personal-learning.html)
 * [|Managing Your eLearning Resources] (http://www.articulate.com/blog/how-to-manage-all-of-your-e-learning-resources)
 * Personal Learning Environment ( http://philly-teacher.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-everyone-needs-great-pln.html)
 * [|Personal Learning Network] ( http://blogzingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/personal-learning-network-part-1.html)
 * PLN In Action (http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-personal-learning-network-in-action.html))
 * PLN Yourself (http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/)
 * Technologies of the Professional Networked Learning Collaborative(http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/07/tools-of-the-trade-technologies-of-the-professional-networked-learning-collaborative.html)
 * Using PLNs with Your Students (http://www.edutopia.org/personal-learning-networks-technology)
 * What My PLN Means to Me (http://web20classroom.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-my-pln-means-to-me.html)
 * Your Personal Learning Network Made Easy (http://onceateacher.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/pln-your-personal-learning-network-made-easy/)

**Video Resources:**
> Creating an iGoogle Pageat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbf0dlESX8E
 * The Networked Student at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA
 * Editing your IGoogle Page and iGoogle Gadgets at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpnDzn8-6hM
 * Future of Education - Brave New World at http://futureofeducation.edublogs.org/2009/07/25/can-this-video-get-teachers-started/
 * RSS in Plain Enlgishat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
 * TinyURL at http://tinyurl.com

**PLN Collectors (Aggregators)**
These are the programs that you can use to collect your links to the resources and people on your PLN. There are many more (please add them as you think of them) but these have been selected because they can be used to easily collect links to multiple resources (e.g., blogs, news, twitters, social bookmarking, etc) >
 * **[|iGoogle (Private)]** - Built into your Google account. Only you can review your iGoogle PLN.
 * **[|PageFlakes (Public/Private)]** - Designed to allow you to have others share your PLN if you wish.
 * **[|NetVibes (Private)]** - Only you can review your NetVibes PLN.

**Print Materials:**
- 2-page intro to iGoogle by Dr. Leigh Zeitz - tri-fold information with URLS and contact information from the ISTE 2010 workshop, June 29, 2010 facilitated by Leigh Zeitz and Lois Lindell, University of Nothern Iowa
 * [[file:Diigo Notes.doc]]

Link to eitsummer10blogspot.com for **Emerging Instructional Technology** course during Summer 2010 at the //University of Northern Iowa// materials

**Diigo Resources**

 * [|Diigo V3: Hightlight and Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0] http://vodpod.com/watch/592236-diigo-v3-highlight-share-the-web-social-bookmarking-2-0
 * [|How to Diigo - 5 videos] http://whatelse.pbworks.com/How-To-Diigo
 * [|Diigo Research Video (Annotate, Archive, Organize)] http://www.diigo.com/learn_more/research
 * [|Diigo Share Video (List, Twitter, Widgets, Annotated Link)]http://www.diigo.com/learn_more/share
 * [|Diigo Collaborate Video (Groups, Snapshot, Discussions)] http://www.diigo.com/learn_more/collaborate
 * [|ITEC + diigo search] - http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=community&what=ITEC%20diigo

**RSS Feeds**
- Note written by Lois Lindell about using RSS feeds to journals found in resource databases. This is specifically written for the UNI Rod Library but the instructions are generalizable to many databases.

**Workshop Presentation Slides (on SlideShare)**

 * ISTE 2010 Workshop - June 29, 2010 [|Workshop Slides]
 * ITEC Workshop - October 11, 2009 Workshop Slides
 * ITEC Session - October 12, 2009 Session Slides

//Photo Credit: flickr.com: anua22a//

//Last Updated 6-22-2010//