Learning from your personal learning network
Since I started working here at Sandvika high school in Norway I have been fortunate to be able to travel to distance places, (Brazil, South Africa, Seattle), attend many conferences (Norway, London, Sweden), and get to know many interesting people. One of the advantages of the internet is the posibillity to follow people and conferences without always having to participate. It is easy if you have a twitter account and use it wisely! Last conference I participated in without being there was Wise2010 and Learning without frontiers. Networks are also built during workshops (our PLN bootcamp for school leaders) and by reading RSS feeds and books. That is why I have listed some books on my webpage and I am really looking forward to reading this new book I read about on this webpage. I can’t wait until it is published. Take a look at the list of authors and content!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction, Chris Lehmann & Scott McLeod
- Foreword, David Warlick
Learning Tools
- Blogs, Kristin Hokanson & Christian Long
- Wikis, Stephanie Sandifer & Vicki Davis
- Podcasts and webinars, Steve Dembo & Wes Fryer
- RSS and RSS readers, Will Richardson & Karl Fisch
- Digital video, Mathew Needleman
- Virtual schooling, Michael Barbour & Rick Ferdig
- One-to-one computing, Chris Lehmann & Pamela Livingston
- Open source software, Tom Hoffman
- Educational gaming, John Rice
Interlude
- Social media is changing the way we live and learn, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
- See Sally research: Evolving notions of information literacy, Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson
More Learning Tools
- Social bookmarking, Dean Shareski & Mary Beth Hertz
- Online mind mapping, Carl Anderson & Richard Byrne
- Course management systems, Scott Floyd & Miguel Guhlin
- Online office tool suites, Diana Laufenberg & Mark Wagner
- Twitter, Alec Couros & Kevin Jarrett
- Online images and visual literacy, Kim Cofino & David Jakes
- Mobile phones, Liz Kolb & Sharon Tonner
- Social networking, Ewan McIntosh & Jeff Utecht
- Afterword, Christopher Sessums
I believe you’re right, it’s a joy to be able to communicate with people you’ve met and keep up with them. But it’s also very easy for someone (a predator) to do the same. I didn’t look at the all the links but I would hope one, at least, had a safety lesson on cyber predators.
I’m not that worried about cyber predators, but it is certainly something we talk about in class. Mostly very nice comments on my web-page. And I sometimes unfollow people on twitter if I find their conversation boring or uninteresting!