Social Media Tools for Personalized Development

Lucy GrayConnecticut Educators Computer Association Conference

October 18, 2010

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What is a PLN?

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What is social media?

Online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.

Social media are works of user-created video, audio, text or multimedia that are published and shared in a social environment, such as a blog, wiki or video hosting site.

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Media and ToolsPhotos Audio Video Bookmarks Information Networking

Flickr iTunes YouTube del.icio.us Twitter Facebook

Photobucket Podomatic Teacher Tube Diigo SlideshareApple

Learning Interchange

iStockPhoto Odeo Vimeo StumbleUpon Scribd LinkedIn

Blogger Ning

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Whats your web 2.0 story?

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My Web 2.0 Story

2005 Became an Apple Distinguished Educator Introduced to the joys of RSS feeds and NetNewsWire Attended my first ADE Institute (Alan November presented introduced to podcasting, Skype,Technorati, Creative Commons) Started blogging and exploring web-based apps

2000 Started Friday 5 list of educational resources Began using Backflip to organize bookmarks Became an avid user of the ED TECH listserv among other pre-Web 2.0 online Attended NECC (now called ISTE), MACUL conferences for the first time

Pre 2000 Attended Illinois Computing Educator events, Classroom Connect conferences

1999 Started Technology in Education graduate program at National Louis University

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My Web 2.0 Story2006 Participated in Google focus group Wrote global awareness curriculum for Apple in Europe Started blogging for Infinite Thinking Machine Started volunteering on ICE conference committee

2007 Helped with the Google Teachers Academy Introduced to Facebook and Twitter

2008 Helped with Chicago GTA Bought an iPhone Visited Singapore2009 and 2010 Served on NMCs K12 Horizon Report Advisory Board Starting consulting work Travelled to Bahrain for the Education Project Conference Attended CECA !

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The Point?This stu has profoundly changed my professional life and the way

that I work.

Everyone will have a dierent Ah Ha moment with social media.

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Tried & TruePhotos Audio Video Bookmarks Information Networking

Flickr iTunes YouTube del.icio.us Twitter Facebook

Diigo SlideshareApple

Learning Interchange

Scribd LinkedIn

Ning

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Lucys Top 5

Microblo$ing using Twitter

Networking and community building via Ning

Reading weblogs organized by a newsreader

Discovering images and groups in Flickr

Finding and sharing resources via social bookmarking

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Why Twitter?Connect with others

Stay current in your areas of interest

Share and co%ect resources

Get spontaneous responses &om your network

Directly access experts and we%-known people in your field

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Try Following...http://twitter.com/cnansen

http://twitter.com/AngelaMaiers

http://twitter.com/paulawhite

http://twitter.com/teach42

http://twitter.com/dianeRavitch/

http://twitter.com/Riptide_Furse

http://twitter.com/mscofino

http://twitter.com/garystager/

http://twitter.com/rmbyrne

http://twitter.com/thomasdaccord

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Why Ning?

Build customized social networking sites

Serves as a repository for videos, audio, and text

Structure adds to community building

Find a ning for every educational topic

Keep your Ning public or private

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A Few Favorite NingsClassroom 2.0

TeacherLibrarianNing

Independent School Educators Network

The Global Education Co#aborative

Pearson sponsoring Nings for educators

Alternatives to Ning

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Why Blogs?

Reflect on professional practice

Record ideas

Share resources

Showcase best practices and examples

Inspire others

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A Few Favorite Blogs

Langwitches

Always Learning

Weblo$-ed

Never Ending Search

Hungton Post Education

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Why Flickr?Share and store photos

Create stu with your images

Organize photos using tags

Join anity groups

Geotag photos

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A Few Flickr FavoritesField Guide: Birds of the World

Te% a Story in Five Frames

Classroom Displays

Atrocious Apostrophes

Popular Tags in Flickr

Interesting Things Calendar

Flickr Clock

The Commons

World Map

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Why Social Bookmarking ?

Method of sharing and organizing online resources

Accessible &om any internet connected computer

Subscribe to tags of interest

Fo%ow like-minded people through a network

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Delicious & Diigo favorites

People to add to your network in Delicious:

http://delicious.com/cchausis

http://delicious.com/cnansen

http://delicious.com/brasst

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Delicious & Diigo favorites

Groups to join in Diigo

Google in Education

Resources for Languages

Classroom 2.0

21st Century Stu list

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Worthy of a MentionDocument sharing

Scribd

Slideshare

Chat

Skype

iChat

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Organizing It AllUse a newsreader or news a&regator

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Suggested Readers

Netvibes

Pageflakes

Google Reader

NetNewsWire (Mac)

FeedDemon (Windows)

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Taking Charge Guidelines

Pick ONE tool to meet a particular professional development need or interest.

Rea%y learn that tool and develop confidence around it.

Utilize third party tools that enhance the functionality of your tool of choice, i.e. browser bookmarklets.

Find an informal online mentor to help you on your PD journey

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Follow You, Follow Me

Lucy Gray

elemenous@gmail.com

iChat, Skype, Flickr, delicious, Youtube etc: elemenous

Blog: http:lucygray.org

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