1. Ways I Mine Content
1.1. Where I gather and consume information
2. "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.
3. 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.
3.1. Expand PLN for writing
3.1.1. To expand my subject content exploration and world view.
4. Exercise: follow 5 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.05 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.0 suggested by The Innovative Blogger blog, 10/12/2008
5. My PLN Network Tool Needs (Weaknesses):
5.1. An RSS Feed (I have not successfully used this tool for content mining)
5.1.1. An RSS Aggregator: from new bogging site?
5.1.1.1. A Personal Blog Space to send PLN members to for more information: a place that aggregates my tools and information in 1 place outside of my Facebook Platform
5.1.1.1.1. Develop a richer communication via
5.1.1.1.2. Responding to Professional Tweets, Blogs
5.1.1.1.3. Developing a blog site
5.1.1.1.4. Tweeting my blogs
5.1.2. 1)An RSS Feed Aggregator such as, Facebook,
5.1.3. 2) igoogle account and draw from google reader?
5.1.4. New node
5.2. New PLN active growth because of the creation of this PLN mind map, synphonic thinking.
5.2.1. Use of Google Blog Search Engine
5.2.2. Search for VoiceThread Blog to inform the capstone project
5.2.3. mindmeister, Mind Mapping Tool and visualization tool
5.2.4. TimeGlider Project Planning tool
5.2.5. Created a bit.ly account to nourish Twitter communcation
6. 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.
7. Semisynchronous Communication: 'nearly now', communication that does not have to happen in real time.
7.1. Twitter
7.1.1. Email
7.1.1.1. Delicious
7.1.1.1.1. Facebook
7.2. Twitter Networks
7.3. Facebook
7.3.1. Primary PLN Network connections
7.3.1.1. wall posts
7.3.1.1.1. Link to Twitter Feeds
7.3.1.1.2. Aggregates my content, research links
7.3.2. Personal Messages
7.3.2.1. Wall Posts
8. Snychronous: Real Time Communication I experience
8.1. Real Time communication
8.2. Texting
8.3. Skype
8.3.1. Video Chat
8.3.1.1. Im'ing
8.3.1.1.1. Audio Chat
8.4. Gmail Chat
8.5. Facebook Chat
8.6. Cell Phone Conversations
8.6.1. Conference Calls
8.7. Physical Conversation
8.8. Virtual World Conferences: avatars
8.9. Live Stream Video
8.10. The Wire
9. How my PLN inter-relates technologies, their affordances and forms of 21 first Century communication.
9.1. Communication: local, universal Professionals, colleagues, classmates, Professors all inform
9.1.1. Content
9.1.1.1. Research Needs
9.1.1.1.1. Other networks that cultivate my goals, interests and inspire.
9.2. Synchronous, semisynchronous, asynchronous and physical space
10. Ansynchronous Communication: Aggregator. Technology can generate and bring information to the PLN.
10.1. RSS Feeds
10.2. Journal Articles
10.3. Blog Articles
10.4. Blog Posts
10.5. Podcasts
10.6. Google searches
11. 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.
11.1. Virtual Conferences
11.1.1. PoP Tech
11.1.2. RPN
11.2. Webinars
11.3. Delicious Social Bookmarking community
11.4. Facebook
11.5. Twitter
11.6. Google
11.7. Blogs
11.8. YouTube
11.9. Teacher Tube
11.10. The Yard Learning Community
11.11. Email, Community Digests, Org updates, Colleague communication
12. Existing Relationships with Experts
12.1. DCE Educational Technology Course Professors, Instructors and Lecturers, and Staff
12.1.1. DCE Environmental Management Department
12.1.2. Church St. Computer Center
12.1.3. HSPH
12.1.4. Warren Prescott Elementary School
12.1.5. Quen.ch
12.1.6. Oceanic Society
12.1.7. Harvard Office for Sustainability
12.1.8. DCE Communications Office
12.2. Classmates
12.3. Professional Colleagues
12.4. Personal Friends
12.5. Mark Campbell Productions (Film Studio)
13. Known Experts: Academic, Professional, Multidisciplinary, Organizations connected Via Social Networking Technologies and Tools
13.1. Following 25 Colleagues, Environmental Management, Communications and Educational Technology on Twitter
13.2. Around 80 'Professional Friends' on Facebook
13.3. Andrew Revkin
13.4. Daniel Pink
13.5. Karl Fisch
13.6. PoP Tech Experts
13.6.1. Multidisciplinary Content and Experts favorite
13.7. Howard Rheingold
13.8. Berkman Center, Harvard
13.9. Learn Central
13.10. Planet Green
13.11. Earth Hour
13.12. LearnCentral Community Digest
14. Experts to know better
14.1. Henry Jenkins
14.2. Howard Reheingold
14.3. Peter Duffy
14.4. ISTES
15. Ways I can meet and learn and connect with my fields and inspiration
15.1. Virtual Conferences
15.1.1. Actively Participate in Live Stream Chats
15.1.1.1. Tweet about my interests, authentic projects, re-tweet
15.1.1.1.1. Comment on Expert, Community Tweets and Blogs
15.1.2. Webinars
15.1.2.1. Listen, mine information relevant to me
15.1.2.1.1. Add vetted information to my PLN (Twitter Feed, Facebook, Delicious Accounts), communicate via posts, re-Tweets, comments, questions using these tools.
15.2. Join Alumni groups on Facebook and Twitter. Actively participate in those communities.
15.3. Groups I belong to, Panels I sit on
15.3.1. Harvard Climate Colaborative
15.3.1.1. Harvard Energy & Environment Network
15.3.1.1.1. 'Meet Up' Groups
15.4. Organizations from Facebook, Twitter
15.5. Explore and learn new technologies
16. Ways I can Promote myself, work: Publish
16.1. Connect or Partner with other Organizations
16.2. Publish on Websites with stronger google aggregator
16.3. Attend Field Events, Panel discussions and discuss interests and projects
16.4. Maintain presecence with experts, colleagues
16.5. Nominate projects and self for events, conferences, competitions
16.6. Stay connected with current happenings
16.7. Continue to explore my interests, enjoy my work, projects, personal life
16.8. Meeting New Experts
16.8.1. Inform Alumni Publications
16.9. Measure my audience participation using bit.ly
16.9.1. Can gage my audiences interest in my Tweets.
16.9.1.1. I learn how to better develop my communication: Tweeting Strategy
16.9.1.1.1. Informs me about new audience building, connections I'd like to add to stay inspired and promote myself in my fields of interests.
16.10. Publish MindMeister Maps on Twitter to outline projects, inspire interest, response from my Twitter Community
17. Where I publish
17.1. WordPress
17.2. Twitter
17.3. Facebook
17.4. Delicious
17.5. The Yard
17.6. YouTube
17.7. Vimeo
17.8. VoiceThread
17.9. HES Teaching Assistant: Content I design and discuss
17.10. Presentations
17.10.1. MGH
17.10.1.1. Harvard Events I organize
17.10.1.1.1. TA Discussions