Creating a PLN

Top 10 Educational Technology Hashtags for Educators Twitter is a real treasure trove of educational resources for teachers and educators. It is one of my favourite web tools to stay updated about what is going on in the field of educational technology. It goes without saying that everyone of you has got a Twitter account but the question is do you really benefit from Twitter as should be ? Hashtag is a great way for users to locate and keep track of particular information within the massive tweets. Below is a list of top educational technology hashtags I have meticulously handpicked for you. Check out the list and don't forget to share it with your colleagues : 1- #edtech This is one of the most popular hashtags for educational technology fans. 2- #edchat Another similar hashtag where people interested in educational technology hold constant talks and chats about educational web tools. 3- #Web20 This is where you can follow tweets about user-generated content, teaching communities, education mash-ups and social networking. 4- #elearning

Just4Me Social Media: Guidelines for School Administrators Social media tools like Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, Google+ and Flickr are potentially exciting learning and teaching tools that can help teachers and students make connections to ideas, skills and concepts in a 21st-century learning environment. However, social media are getting a bad rap in education. Some students use the tools in ways that pit their First Amendment rights against their responsibilities as students in brick-and-mortar schools. In 2006, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the Hermitage School District in Pennsylvania after the district suspended student Justin Layshock for creating an unflattering online parody of his principal. Clearly, schools must consider the rights of students to freedom of expression. The courts have determined otherwise. Probationary teachers can be dismissed without cause, and ill-conceived comments on social networks have ruined nascent careers. Protection from Predators There are other boundaries that must not be crossed.

Materiales y datos de los MOOC sobre ABP y PLE Finalizados los cursos masivos en red (MOOC) sobre “Aprendizaje basado en proyectos (ABP)” y “Entornos personales de aprendizaje (PLE)”, llega el momento de hacer recopilación de los datos de participación y materiales generados. Participantes matriculados – PLE: 2.041 (España: 910) ABP: 3.790 (España: 2.221) Nº de insignias entregadas – PLE: 53 (2,6 %) ABP: 127 (3,3%) Nº de blogs agregados por participantes – PLE: 204 ABP: 423 Total intervenciones en foros de debate – PLE: 745 ABP: 1.375Usuarios de Twitter que han publicado mensajes con hashtag del curso – #EduPLEmooc: 528 #ABPmooc_INTEF: 969Media de mensajes por día en Twitter (incluido RTs) – PLE: 91 ABP: 74,8Miembros del grupo de Facebook del curso: PLE – 1.810 ABP: 2302 ÍNDICE NPS PLE: % promotores (60,38) – % detractores (11,32) = +49 ÍNDICE NPS ABP: % promotores (84,2) – % detractores (4,2) = +80 Lista de reproducción de vídeos del MOOC sobre ABP. Lista de reproducción de vídeos del MOOC sobre PLE.

Connectedness as the Standard I am extremely excited that August is Connected Educator month. In my opinion, being a connected learner, leader, and/or educator is no longer an option. My personal and professional journey in this area is well documented and something that I regularly present on. When I think back to my life as an educator prior to becoming connected, I can honestly say that I was isolated, naive, and definitely not as well rounded as I am today. Image by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano- www.langwitches.org/blog based on image (CC) by Alec Couros- /educationaltechnology.ca/couros/799 We become the epicenter of our learning and determine what, where, and when we want to learn. Your PLN will provide you with the seeds of change, but is up to you to plant, take care of, and cultivate them in order to witness their growth and development into transformative culture elements. What do you think are some of the benefits of becoming connected that I might not have touched on?

Aprendizajes Emergentes y Pedagogías Invisibles La Sociedad espera de nosotros un nuevo tipo de ciudadano cuyas dimensiones social y profesional integren con naturalidad lo virtual y lo analógico, con la certeza de que de lo más real que hay en nuestra vida es lo que vivimos en Internet. Y a su vez este tipo de ciudadano necesita de una nueva escuela donde aprender a gestionar una identidad híbrida. Además, y más que nunca, la escuela ha de ser un espacio para forjar ciudadanos movidos por el bien colectivo y con actitud crítica y no simplemente un edificio donde preparar trabajadores, porque igualmente las fronteras entre lo laboral y lo no laboral son cada vez más difusas. Pero basta con acercarse a cualquier centro educativo para comprobar que, en líneas generales, poco ha cambiado en los últimos 100 años: ni los espacios, ni las formas de organizarnos, ni el currículo, ni las metodologías, ni para qué y cómo usamos la evaluación,… ¿Nos vemos en La Coruña para seguir reflexionando?

Pinterest as a bookmarking tool Jul July 15, 2012 | 1 Comment Pinterest is actually a virtual noticeboard. You add small sticky notes with images to your canvas. You can have many boards and you can pin articles, blog posts, and ideas according to your interests When I first heard about pinterest, I thought ‘enough, I’m already lost among so many sites.’ I love pinterest for many reasons. It is also great because you can categorize your boards and it will make the work easier for the user. You also see what people you follow have pinned. After spending sometime on pinterest, I decided to have different boards and here you can see what I have pinned under ‘ Reading, Writing Resources ’.

Personal Knowledge Mastery seek > sense > share PKM is a unified framework of individually constructed enabling processes to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively, and contribute to society. PKM means taking control of your professional development, and staying connected in the network era, whether you are an employee, self-employed, or between jobs. Personal – according to one’s abilities, interests & motivation. (not directed by external forces)Knowledge – understanding information and experience in order to act upon it. (know what, know who, know how)Mastery – the journey from apprentice to disciplined sense-maker and knowledge catalyst. “A model of curation for the digital era that is being used in health and care is Harold Jarche’s ‘Personal Knowledge Mastery’ (PKM). Developing Mastery Four public online workshops are scheduled each year: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall PKM Online Workshop Custom workshops can be developed for organizations: Organizational PKM Workshop PKM Handbook Mastery

PLN Starter Kit About a month ago I asked you to help me create a “PLN Starter Kit” – a resource for educators who are ready to start building a Personal Learning Network but who just don’t know where to start. I’ll be honest, I didn’t decide to do this out of the goodness of my heart. Rather, this project is the answer to complaints concerns I hear all of the time. But that’s the thing about Personal Learning Networks. What I do know for certain is that the desire to create a PLN has to be genuine. The other thing I know is that PLNs have to be passion driven. That’s not to say, of course, that a few recommendations would hurt – which brings me back to the PLN Starter Kit. At first, I thought I’d just blog about your choices, the way Tamara Cox did recently when she wrote about cleaning out her RSS Feed so that the cream of the crop could rise to the top. In the end, I decided to use Live Binders as the tool to create my PLN Starter Kit. Pat yourself on the back. Enjoy!

a network perspective The three overlapping circles of the network learning model – social networks, communities of practice, work teams – have been described by Patti Anklam as three network types – connectivity, alignment, productivity. This makes sense, because in social networks we mostly connect, while in communities of practice we strive to find alignment between ideas and practice, and in our work teams we produce something of value. Patti goes on to describe the key tasks for ‘network builders’. Connectivity Network (social network) – “Weaving — Helping people make connections, increase ease of sharing information”Alignment Network (community of practice) – “Facilitating — helping people to explore potential shared identity and value propositions”Productivity Network (work team) – “Coordinating — helping people plan and implement collaborative action” Perceiving all three of these spaces as networks reinforces the principle that we cannot manage networks, only influence through our interactions.

The Current State Of Social Networks Everyone’s a cynic. Pundits seem to expect Google+ to be instantly as popular as Facebook or Twitter for some reason. Personally, I think it’ll just take time and am hopeful about G+. I like it. So it makes me sort of laugh / wince when I see an infographic about how Google+ is stinking up the joint. But that’s just my opinion. So, as with all technology, only time will tell if Google+ grows or falls. Unión Profesional – El desafío del Entorno Digital para el profesional en 2015 UP organiza un desayuno de trabajo para hablar de estrategia digital para el profesional. El pasado 23 de febrero Unión Profesional organizó, junto a la Fundación Pons y ONO, el desayuno de trabajo titulado “El desafío del Entorno Digital para el profesional en 2015”, enfocado en cómo escoger y trabajar las herramientas 2.0 necesarias para llevar a cabo una estrategia digital en la actualidad. María Jesús Magro, directora general de la Fundación Pons, apeló a la tradición de su institución en la formación en valores, también en el ámbito de las nuevas tecnologías. Gonzalo Múzquiz, secretario técnico de Unión Profesional, señaló la «profunda inquietud» de Unión Profesional y de las profesiones en trasladar la necesidad de una la estrategia, también en el entorno digital. «Hay que tener un plan para poder entender y construir realidades que aúnen las necesidades del común». ¿Qué pueden hacer las organizaciones colegiales para ayudar a sus profesionales?

The 21 Signs you are A 21st Century Teacher Teaching in the 21st century is definitely not an easy task. Students are digitally focused and have more free access to information challenging thus the traditional prototypic picture of the teacher as the knowledge instigator. Engagement is also another serious issue that makes educating such kind of students a real nightmare. It takes so much creativity, originality, and novelty from the part of teachers to get students motivated and engaged. Technology has the cure but this cure can not be effective unless teachers know how to use its prescription. Another resource which I highly recommend for any 21st century teacher is the awesome learning community called Simple k-12. I am mentioning Simple K 12 here because what they offer clicks in with the general theme of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning and also because It is a an inestimable source for professional development for teachers and educators.

[curso] Entornos Organizacionales de Aprendizaje: Construyendo la Escuela del S. XXI Desde Conecta13 seguimos trabajando para expandir el concepto de PLE. Nuestra nueva propuesta, en colaboración con Telefónica Educación Digital, es un curso gratuito en el que reflexionamos sobre la gestión del conocimiento en las organizaciones educativas partiendo de las ideas de los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje. Sin duda la propuesta de Graham Attwell sobre los Personal and Organisational Learning Environments ha sido decisiva para trasladar las ideas que subyacen al concepto de PLE al contexto de las organizaciones. Attwell, junto con Serge Ravet, propone el acrónimo POLE para referirse a los Entornos Personales e Institucionales de Aprendizaje como aquellos ecosistemas que facilitan la interacción entre las actividades de aprendizaje informal de los miembros de la organización, gestionadas a través de sus respectivos PLEs, y los procesos de gestión del conocimiento de la propia organización. Una vez más, contamos contigo para vivir una experiencia de aprendizaje emocionante.