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Learning to learn: a series on hacking your own brain. I recently partook in a discussion among some fellow community managers on the best ways to learn about the industry and how to train its future generations. When the conversation reached the point where we all shared the “training” we went through ourselves, the answers began getting interesting. “I studied marketing in college.” “I studied communications and the art of rhetoric.” “The job I’ve had that contributed most to the development of my community management skills was being a community manager.” “My social life and interactions with others have been one of the biggest contributors to my professional skill set.” It’s no secret that there just isn’t a degree to be earned in social media or community management.

In fact, I graduated college one short year ago, and never even knew that this extensive professional field existed until I was thrown into it. The reality is, this isn’t only the case for community management. Step 1: Get a Notebook. What’s my “notebook strategy,” you may ask? Teacher Guide - Creating PLNs. Creating your PLN is easier than you might even thought. Most of you are already familiar with some social media platforms such as Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Diigo, LinkedIn, but do you really know how to use them to create a personal learning network ? We have several guides to walk you through all the tips and tricks you need to know to start a powerful PLN.

Check them out and share with us your feedback. The Importancre of PLNs in Education Watch this excellent video to learn about the importance of creating a PLN Guides Check out these guides to find out how other educators have used social media and other tools to grow their personal learning networks. Want to really make the most of your PLN? Educator's PLN. Guardian Teacher Network | guardian.co.uk. 23 Resources 4 PLNs. Part of the Cool Sites series For the past year, I have researched the what, who, when, how, and why of Personal/Professional/Passionate Learning Networks (PLNs).

We have seen the benefits of the people we choose to connect, collaborate, and problem solve with through social media. The educators, subject matter experts (SMEs), authors, and mentors we choose to derive knowledge from help us self-reflect on our methodologies and beliefs. They support us, remember our birthdays, celebrate our accomplishments, and stir within us a passion to improve the status quo. A community raises a child! Below are several resources I have collected about the history of PLNs, how to build a PLN, and the tools needed to build a PLN. We Connect Wiki- This wiki is full of videos, Wallwishers, Wikipedia articles, and more that help educators find the resources to build a PLN. Wikipedia article about PLNs- This article explains the history and theory behind PLNs. Why Do We Connect? VoiceThread- Why a PLN? New York Times Learning Network.

UNESCO Education. Learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community. Personal Learning Networks. How to Create a PLN. What Is A PLN? Through the use of my own Personal Learning Network (PLN) , I came across several great examples that both define what a PLN is, and explain the value of creating one for yourself.

According to a wikispace about creating PLNs, “Personal Learning Networks are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to: 1) set their own learning goals 2) manage their learning; managing both content and process 3) communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals Simply put: A PLN is a system for lifelong learning. ” Why Start Your PLN Now? Teachers in our district, especially freshmen teachers, have a ton on their plates this year. Here are some ways that educators are using their PLNs: 10 Easy Ways to Kick Start Your Personal Learning Network Social Networking – Keeping up with personal, more social contacts like friends, family, and former students (Facebook, Google+) Resources.

OpenLearn Teacher Education. Lesson Plans. Lesson plans for teachers. Common Core Implementation Kit enables the creation of a Common Core State Standards aligned lesson plan with a few easy clicks. Common Core operates from within Word 2013 and provides daily learning targets for Common Core State Standards, along with instructional notes, student friendly “I Can” statements, vocabulary lists, differentiation ideas, activity ideas, assessment ideas, common student misconceptions, and links to open educational resources aligned to the standards. Save time planning lessons and locating resources for your students The Common Core Implementation Kit is a free tool that makes it easy for teachers to create Language Arts and Math lesson plans aligned to the Common Core State Standards all from within Microsoft Word 2013.

Common Core consists of a series of course-specific Microsoft Word templates that access Common Core information through a Microsoft Office Task Pane that is displayed next to the lesson plan document. System requirements. Lesson plans & more. Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies. Instructables.

General Resources. From 2 January 2015, Jisc brought its customer-facing teams, including Jisc infoNet, in-house. Although the variety of individual services have disappeared, our focus on practical support will remain. A nominated account manager, backed by a team of subject specialists, will operate locally to you and provide you with a fully-managed relationship, ensuring that you benefit from our full offer. Jisc’s local teams will draw upon expertise from across the organisation and will have direct access to events, training, communications and marketing, sector intelligence and subject expertise to support you on: Accessibility and inclusionTeaching, learning and assessmentTechnology and the lawOnline learning and the digital student experienceTechnology to support enterpriseResearchResearch data managementScholarly communicationsLibraries and digital resourcesStrategy and business processSystems, tools and information management Many of the infoNet resources can now be found on the Jisc website.

Teacher Resources. eLearning Tags - The 1st eLearning Social Bookmarking Site! Would you be interested in a social bookmarking site related to the eLearning field? Would you like to Submit a new eLearning Story? eLearning Tags is a social bookmarking site where you can discover, share, vote and discuss interesting and remarkable eLearning content! What eLearning Tags Can Do For You? At eLearning Tags you can Discover the best eLearning resources based on a thriving community of 75,000 eLearning professionals. How To Join eLearning Tags? We received a lot of requests from fellow e-learning professionals to create an e-learning social bookmarking site where fellow e-learning pros could discover, share, vote and discuss interesting and remarkable e-learning content!

Since we do not appreciate SPAMMERS and to bring True Value we decided to accept ONLY invitations from fellow eLearning professionals that are members of the Instructional Design & E-Learning Professionals' LinkedIn Group. Media Literacy Project | Creating digital opportunities. Teaching Resources. Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Edutopia. Mobile Learning.

- Developing Training With What You Carry In Your Pocket. Web video, as a means to deliver educational content, is clearly an idea whose time has come. What started as the result of the full motion compression (MPEG) efforts of Philips Interactive Media in 1992, has resulted in the proliferation of web-based instructional video content. For example, YouTube reports that over 72 hours of video content is uploaded to its platform every minute. Many of those videos are instructional or educational in nature. Companies including Microsoft, Cisco and Cloud Access maintain YouTube channels that exist for the sole purpose of providing training materials to their customers. TED-Ed, a free educational platform that allows visitors to create and share instructional videos, receives close to 166,000 visitors per day.

Lynda.com, an online learning company that helps anyone learn software, offers over 87,000 instructional videos to its two million customers. What Role Does Technology Play How Video Impacts Performance But, there is a solution. M-learning : home. Designing for mobile learning and communications | LINE. From the moment we wake up in the morning to the moment we fall at sleep at night we are “in near-constant visual contact with bright, pulsating rectangles” (Dr. Richard Menken, 2009). Originally published as part of a spoof article in The Onion, Menken’s quote rings startlingly true today with the rise of ubiquitous computing. The volume and intensity of the information that passes through these glowing rectangles is transforming and increasing at a rapid rate. At some point this massive influx of information needs to be counter-balanced. Dense information needs to be simplified and sorted and messages need to be sharpened and focused.

UX Magazine predicts a trend towards Digital Abstraction, with technology paring down functionality, personalising and extracting information and operating nicely around the edge – rather than at the centre of – our attention. So how do we go about designing learning, and creating engaging content for users in 2013? ContextContentUsers Case Study: Figure 1. Mlearning Infokit. John Dewey, writing in the early years of the twentieth century, may not have foreseen the proliferation of 21st century ‘mobile devices’ but, in the quotation to the right, he does point out something that remains relevant: that mobile learning involves change, initiative and adaptability.

Mobile learning involves change in the sense that the ability to communicate with tutors and peers, as well as access learning resources, changes what is possible in education. It takes initiative for leaders to create a vision to sustain that change and, finally, mobile learning requires adaptability by members of staff to carry out the change. This infoKit is a practical guide to thinking through the issues relating to institutional adoption of mobile learning. It follows a JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review which delves deeper into the theory behind mobile learning and the wider context.

Emerging Practice in a Digital Age Bee motif. Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources. Seven Steps to Success with Mobile Learning. “Part of 'getting it right' with ed tech is a practical, guided approach to any implementation plan, no matter how big or small. The same can be said for the trend of mobile learning that we're seeing expand in education today. Laura Devaney guides us through some practical steps for making this type of instructional approach work for the best, in the following article from eSchool News.” via eSchool News Implementing a mobile learning initiative is a complicated undertaking, no matter how much funding or stakeholder support you have.

But a new resource from the Consortium for School Networking offers an outline for school administrators who hope to launch and sustain a successful mobile learning project. The first step, Investigating, is to determine why you want to implement mobile learning. During this step, administrators should look for an overview of plans, best practices in mobile learning implementation, and research to support the procedure. Teachers Guide on The Use of Mobile Devices in The Classroom. Effective Mobile Learning.pdf - Powered by Google Docs. iPads in Classroom Study. 8 Great iPad Apps for Creating Stop Motion Videos. 1- Stop Motion Recorder StopMotion Recorder is toy video camera enable you to make stunning stop motion video like claymation. And you can edit, share movie via Mail, 'Facebook', 'Twitter (Twitvid)', Twitter(yFrog) & 'Youtube' from your iPhone. 2- Animation Creator HD Animation Creator HD allows your creativity to come to life on your iPad or iPad Mini!

You are the director. With simple, yet powerful drawing tools, color options, and easy to use frame management, you're only limited by your imagination! 3- FlipBook FlipBook has everything you need to get started animating, from an eraser to onion skinning (which lets you see a faint image of the previous and next frames) to layered drawing. 4- iMovie Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. 5- My Stop Action 6- Smoovie The 'must have' app for making stop motion animations on iPad. 7- Draw and Show 8- Animation Creator. 20 Eye-Opening Stats You Probably Didn’t Know About Mobile Learning. Technology in Education. Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Hack Education. Digital Presentations in Education. iGeneration - 21st Century Education.

eLearning Europa. Link Directory | digitalgoonies.com. All the links you need, consolidated into one easy-to-use list. This is a living document- a work in progress so be patient with us. And let us know if a link isn’t working, but be nice about it as we are very sensitive & emotionally unstable educators! Annotation Tools & Bookmarking Audio & Podcasting Blogging Kidblog Comics & Storytelling Desktop Publishing Drawing Tools Image Editors Image Effects Image Generators Image Sources Keyboarding TypeIt Mind Mapping SpicyNodes Miscellaneous Phone Tools (not iPhone) Polls & Quizzes Productivity Applications Chart Gizmo Slideshow Alternatives Slideshow (Traditional) Social Interactions Study Aids Timeline Generators Timetoast Video Tools Web 2.0 Directories Website Generators. The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about ( 100+)

When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed. Everyday new apps go viral and to keep up with the updates in this field is really a daunting challenge. Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources ( this blog is one of them ) where educators and teachers can get to discover and learn about new useful apps to use in education.

Another trusted resource is Langwitches whose images I am sharing with you below. Langwitches has done a great job in coming up with a list of great educational iPad apps organized into categories with different headings. The only thing that is missing in his work and which if he had paid attention to would have made his work even way greater is to make the app images clickable. Instead of clicking on any app name to access it you will have to type its name in Google or iTunes store to find it. The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad. Finding apps isn’t difficult. Finding education apps is only a bit more challenging. Finding free education apps is also possible. Finding free education apps worth downloading is a different story entirely. The following is our list for the 55 best apps for learning we can find. Some are formal learning–math drilling and phonics, for example–while others are RSS readers, social media platforms, and the like.

A few notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad 1. Developer Description: View 360-degree panoramas of places around the globe with Street View; View high resolution satellite imagery of locations around the world. 2. Developer Description: “…explore more than 750 Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Engineering & Tech, Arts & Music, and Health subjects right on their mobile devices. 3. Developer Description: “This app is a fun way for parents, teachers, librarians, and readers to get more information about top rated books at the fifth and sixth grade level.

Digital Curation Tools. E-learning. Learning Technologies pdf. Online learning basics. Storytelling in eLearning: The why and how. Web 2.0 for Teachers. Web 2.0 Teaching Tools. 43 Great Free Tools for Teachers From edshelf. 30 Best Web 2.0 Tools.