Experiencing My PLN
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alisyn johnson
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Experiencing My PLN
Ways I Mine Content
Where I gather and consume information
"Regardless, at the heart of every PLN is it's members" (Warlick, ISTE,March/April2009). My hope is this will help me 'get to know' my fellow PLN members and engage in a more rich iterative reflection process about the content, research and subject.
My PLN is primarily research based. I would like to add the above tools to expand my use of a PLN such as, reflection, writing, communication and exploring the weaknesses (my narrow worldview) in the subject content of my PLN.
Expand PLN for writing
My PLN Network Tool Needs (Weaknesses):
An RSS Feed (I have not successfully used this tool for content mining)
New PLN active growth because of the creation of this PLN mind map, synphonic thinking.
My Networking Tools cultivate my communication, professional strtegies, and unfolds synphonic thinking as it creates my 'big picture'. My Networking technologies and tools help me achieve my professional strategies. They can inter-relate, reveal connections, cultivate relationships and afford structures such as my professional research data base.
Semisynchronous Communication: 'nearly now', communication that does not have to happen in real time.
The 'Nearly Now' idea is drawn from Bournemouth University professor and New Media Environments Chair Stephen Heppell called it the “nearly now”
in a March 18, 2008, Guardian article titled “Back and
Forth.” This notation and the reference to real time come from the article found in the March April 2009 addition of ISTE " Grow your Personal Learning Network" by David Warlick.
Twitter
Twitter Networks
Facebook
Snychronous: Real Time Communication I experience
Real Time communication
Texting
Skype
Gmail Chat
Facebook Chat
Cell Phone Conversations
Physical Conversation
Virtual World Conferences: avatars
Live Stream Video
The Wire
How my PLN inter-relates technologies, their affordances and forms of 21 first Century communication.
Communication: local, universal Professionals, colleagues, classmates, Professors all inform
Synchronous, semisynchronous, asynchronous and physical space
Ansynchronous Communication: Aggregator. Technology can generate and bring information to the PLN.
RSS Feeds
Journal Articles
Blog Articles
Blog Posts
Podcasts
Google searches
The models mutually inform, nurture one another. One provides a model of online communication theory and technology connections that inform my understanding of Educational Technology and constructs a communicative dialogue mental model. The other provides my real world practice of the theory content and my goals. The arrows reinforce how the nodes and models mutually inform my PLN and those experiences.
Virtual Conferences
Webinars
Delicious Social Bookmarking community
Facebook
Twitter
Google
Blogs
YouTube
Teacher Tube
The Yard Learning Community
Email, Community Digests, Org updates, Colleague communication
Existing Relationships with Experts
DCE Educational Technology Course Professors, Instructors and Lecturers, and Staff
Classmates
Professional Colleagues
Personal Friends
Mark Campbell Productions (Film Studio)
Known Experts: Academic, Professional, Multidisciplinary, Organizations connected Via Social Networking Technologies and Tools
Following 25 Colleagues, Environmental Management, Communications and Educational Technology on Twitter
Around 80 'Professional Friends' on Facebook
Andrew Revkin
Daniel Pink
Karl Fisch
PoP Tech Experts
Howard Rheingold
Berkman Center, Harvard
Learn Central
Planet Green
Earth Hour
LearnCentral Community Digest
Experts to know better
Henry Jenkins
Howard Reheingold
Peter Duffy
ISTES
Ways I can meet and learn and connect with my fields and inspiration
Virtual Conferences
Join Alumni groups on Facebook and Twitter. Actively participate in those communities.
Groups I belong to, Panels I sit on
Organizations from Facebook, Twitter
Explore and learn new technologies
Ways I can Promote myself, work: Publish
Connect or Partner with other Organizations
Publish on Websites with stronger google aggregator
Attend Field Events, Panel discussions and discuss interests and projects
Maintain presecence with experts, colleagues
Nominate projects and self for events, conferences, competitions
Stay connected with current happenings
Continue to explore my interests, enjoy my work, projects, personal life
Meeting New Experts
Measure my audience participation using bit.ly
Publish MindMeister Maps on Twitter to outline projects, inspire interest, response from my Twitter Community
Where I publish
WordPress
Twitter
Facebook
Delicious
The Yard
YouTube
Vimeo
VoiceThread
HES Teaching Assistant: Content I design and discuss
Presentations
HES website, course video
Additional Ways I communicate
Cell Phone
Texting
Email
Conference Call Technologies
Skype
Instant Messaging
Face to Face Conversation
Alisyn's PLN Goals: Mine Content for Academic and Personal Interest Research, Expand online Communication, Promote Myself, stay in touch with world views and multidisciplinary connections, Inspiration
