eurocall - before & after twitter : the personal learning environment

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Before and After Twitter
Personal Learning Environments

EuroCALL September 2010

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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

http://www.twitter.com/grahamstanley

http://www.flickr.com/photos/restlessglobetrotter

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iateflonline

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iateflonline

http://www.flickr.com/photos/s3a/m/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aye_shamus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepses

before twitter...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christchurchcitylibraries

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jliba/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathtogutenberg




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

PLE vsPLN

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

image: Francesc Esteve, educational analyst, Universidad Politcnica 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)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipeapple/3280609082/

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.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubspot/3111238226/

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

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://twitter.com/learnenglish_BC

bringing learners together

introducing learners to Twitter




learners use of Twitter




http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/3616155715/

Twitter as a studentself-help line

the mobilefactor

References

http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

- 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)




www.twitter.com/grahamstanley http://blog-efl.blogspot.com

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