Getting+Started+Dev+PLN

Getting Started Developing My PLN

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Desire to help teachers in my district Where do you go for help? Where do you go to get new ideas? As district technology leader, I have always been helping schools or 25 years. I am always open to calls from schools with tech questions. But our visibility was very limited. Do a workshop like this at LEC, my first time at CAPSO, and hold annual TC workshop in Oct. Started a list serv where I or anyone could type a message and it would be distributed to everyone on the list. People said they got them and enjoyed reading them but no one else every took the initiative to write. Fear? Same now with our Ning site, but they are coming around gradually.

Slide 15 - [|Twitter] is a place to start (Go live Twitter and type something)

So on Twitter when I call myself "OC Tech Guy", I may worry that my tweets don't sound like they're coming from a real tech guru. I don't always have something amazing to chat about so I start by answering what it says on Twitter... What are you doing? That's it. A simple question. But how you answer that can define your personality, share much with the rest of your online friends and so on. Twitter4teachers has a great list of people like me on Twitter and categorized by specialty or interest.

Slide 16 - Meet Many Friends on Twitter

After the recent fires, I found out that a brand new friend on Twitter lost her home in the Sylmar fire. Another Twitter friend started a fund for her on Pay Pal. After I made a donation I got a thank you email from Jen saying that so far they had collected $3000 just from online friends, most of whom haven't even met F2F. Today Twitter is up to search within the 3 328 420 twitterers we know! Three million, three hundred twenty eight thousand, four hundred twenty members as of Nov 19. One of the hardest things in a workshop like this is to get people to really catch the vision of having a Twitter account. At STAT I showed it briefly and NO one signed up on the spot. Maybe 1. Couple who were already Tweeters got on and sent me stuff and I still keep up with them.

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Slide 18 Web 2.0 tools - Defined: Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. They can build on the interactive facilities of "Web 1.0" to provide "Network as platform" computing, allowing users to run software-applications entirely through a browser.[2] Users can own the data on a Web 2.0 site and exercise control over that data.[8][2]

Slide 19 [|Google] - The clean design of our site makes it abundantly clear how to proceed and offers little to distract someone in search of information. Search results are clearly separated from advertising, which is identified as "sponsored links." But please make sure you are using the advanced features. type of files etc.

Slide 20 iGoogle - iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage and Google IG), a service of Google, is a customizable AJAX-based startpage much like Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo! and Windows Live Personalized Experience. It was originally launched in May 2005. Its features include the capability to add web feeds and Google Gadgets (similar to those available on Google Desktop).[1] It was renamed and expanded on April 30, 2007 and is currently available in many localized versions of Google (42 languages, over 70 country domain names. The special gadgets must be created using an online wizard and must be of one of the following types: "Framed Photo" - displays a series of photos, "GoogleGram" - creation of special daily messages, "Daily Me" - displays user's current mood and feelings, "Free Form" - allows the user to input text and an image of their choice, "YouTube Channel" - displays videos from a YouTube channel, "Personal List" - allows the user to create a list of items, "Countdown" - countdown timer

Slide 21 - Google is always expanding. Here is an example of the Life collection on Google

Slide 22 - [|Google Earth], formerly Keyhole, now offers 3D, Terrain, Street View, and Google Pro, $400 value, can be yours free for educational purposes. I just got 27 licenses for my school

Slide 23 - [|Google Reader]. Would normally talk about this during blogs and aggregators but I'm putting here under the Google umbrella. Better talk about blogs here because it's just fun stuff at the end. Where does one start with blogging? Begin by reading blogs. Then commenting on them, then start your own. Add a little bit at a time. People post on twitter when they have posted to a blog. I go read them and add them to my list. I try to comment if I am moved to. Use Google Blog search.

Slide 24 - My [|Facebook] account and response from David Warlick on the importance of FB to his PLN:

Social Networking as part of PLN I asked David Warlick, a well-known blogger, author, and speaker how important he thought Facebook was to his PLN. He admitted that FB was probably moreof a basic foundation of his daughter's PLN but his foundation was more with blogs and Twitter. Right now on FB I have 112 friends. Many are recent former students, CUE members, and some now I've met through Twitter. As I write tonight I just got a message from an inquiry to someone if they were one of my former students. "And this must be Mr. Lutz, I assume, who gave me my love of C.S. Lewis

Slide 25 - [|TechLearning] web site, also a good place to find educational blogs