Before and After TwitterPersonal Learning Environments

British Council Teacher Conferencehttp://britishcouncilteachersconference2010.wikispaces.com

25th September 2010

graham.stanley@britishcouncil.es

http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

Outline of Presentation

Before & After Twitter - How is it being used? Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) - PLE vs PLN - PLE vs VLE - Helping Teachers Twitter & English Learners - Introducing learners

Questions

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Before and After TwitterPersonal Learning Environments

British Council Teacher Conference

25th September 2010

graham.stanley@britishcouncil.es

http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

image: Joyce Seitzinger, e-learning instructional designer : http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/

PLEPLE vsvsPLNPLN

More PLE Diagrams here: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

image: Francesc Esteve, educational analyst, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid http://www.francescesteve.es/

PLE vs VLE

PLE- open learning- informal learning - student/teacher owned- small pieces loosely joined

Some Benefits

"As people communicate online, that conversation becomes part of a

lively, significant, public digital knowledge - rather than chatting for one

moment with a small group of friends and colleagues, every person

potentially has access to a global audience. Taken together, that

conversation also creates a mode of knowing we've never had

before...these diverse viewpoints help us get past the biases of

individuals..." (Weinberger, 2007:146)

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Social software

Spoilt for choice

“Social software offers the opportunity to narrow the divide

between producers and consumers. Consumers themselves

become producers, through creating and sharing. One

implication is the potential for a new ecology of ‘open’

content, books, learning materials and multimedia, through

learners themselves becoming producers of learning

materials.” (Attwell, 2007)

New approach to using technologies for learning.

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Barriers against Teacher take-up- “twittiquete”- impression of Twitter cliques

http://twitter.com/barbsaka/starter-pln

Autonomous 'Personal Learning Networks’ for Language Teachers

APLaNeT

Seven Partners: ISTEK, TurkeyUniversity West Scotland, UK – Sofia University, Bulgaria British Council, Spain – EuroEd Foundation, Romania CELT Athens, Greece – Pelikan, Czech Republic

Associate Partners – 140 institutions from 33 countries

not 'build and they will come' but go to where the people are

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

guide people to existing professional resources / networks

inform about and support teachers ina wide variety ofsocial networks

http://www.slanguages.net/

http://www.facebook.com/LearnEnglish.BritishCouncil

http://twitter.com/learnenglish_BC bringing learners together

introducing learners to Twitter

introducing learners to Twitter

introducing learners to Twitter

introducing learners to Twitter

learners use of Twitter

learners use of Twitter

learners use of Twitter

learners use of Twitter

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Twitter as a studentself-help line

the mobilefactor

References

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- Attwell (2007) Personal Learning Environments – the future of e-learning? www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media11561.pdf - Downes (2010) Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Project http://ple.elg.ca/ - Various (2010) Personal Learning Environments http://edutechwiki.unige.ch - Weinberger (2007) The Power of the New Digital Disorder (New York:Holt)

Before and After TwitterPersonal Learning Environments

British Council Teacher Conferencehttp://britishcouncilteachersconference2010.wikispaces.com

25th September 2010

graham.stanley@britishcouncil.es

http://eltple.wikispaces.com/