Powerup+your+Professional+Learning+Network

Power up your PLN

Presenter: Jen Dorman

Jen's resources: [] http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ppln

PLN - Professional Learning Network - Learning community to you will probably very frequently (if ever) meet in person.

Functions of a PLN - Connect, Contribute, Collaborate.

Need - Connect teachers/educators with each other beyond traditional brick and mortar walls.


 * DEN - 100,000 Discovery Ed.'s, 5,500 STARs
 * Google Certified Teachers - []
 * PBS Teachers Connect
 * LinkedIn - []
 * TappedIn -
 * Facebook Groups - (DEN, ISTE, SL for Educators, Classroom 2.0, etc.)
 * Ning

List of Professional Organization - []

RSS - aggregate your online resources.
 * Google Reader
 * [] - makes an RSS feed for websites that do not have a RSS feed.
 * netvibes - []
 * protopage - []
 * pageflakes - []
 * Grazr - []
 * RSSbirthday - []

Podcasts Podcast Distribution sites
 * Gcast - []
 * Gabcast - []
 * Podbean - []
 * PodOmatic - []
 * Yodio
 * Odeo
 * Phone.io
 * See presentation for review of distributors

Twitter - 5 stages of Twitter Acceptance**
 * 1) Denial - I think Twitter sounds stupid.
 * 2) Presence - Ok, I don't really get why people love it
 * 3) Dumping - I'm on Twitter and use it for pasting links to my blog posts
 * 4) Conversing - I don't always post useful stuff, but I do use Twitter
 * 5) Microblogging - I am using Twitter to publish useful information that people read AND converse 1x1 authentically.

Justification for Twitter - We are all smarter together than we are as individuals. The connected learner can do a lot more than they can do on their own.

Ask Mr. Tweet - [] - Will go and find people for you to follow - reccomend you follow at least 10 or 15 people before using the service like this.

Twitter Search - []

Phweet - private chat room (if 140 characters is not enough) - []

TwtPoll - Twitter polling service (free) [] PollEverywhere is another option

Plurk - How is it different from Twitter. Horiznotal rather than vertical. Better for holding asynchronis conversations. []

Create a private microblogging network
 * shout'em - http://shoutem.com
 * yammer - https://www.yammer.com
 * twingr.com - http://twingr.com

AtomKeep - Will keep all of your profiles linked together- http://www.atomkeep.com

Fuser - Online Inbox manager - can bring in multiple email accounts, tweets, facebook - []


 * Social Bookmarking**

Organize and share online resources - delicious, diigo


 * Blogs**

Reflect on best practices


 * Blogger
 * Wordpress - Not just a blog. It is a whole website. You can static pages along with your blog posts.
 * EduBlogs
 * Windows Live Spaces

CoveritLive - Collaborate Live with blogging - []


 * Wikis**


 * wikispaces
 * PB wiki
 * Wet Paint
 * Google Sites

Broadcasting
 * Ustream
 * Qik - on a video enabled phone it will allow you to broadcast video
 * Livestream
 * Slideshare - If you have Office 2007 there is a one click upload for powerpoints

Online presentation tools

Screencasting


 * Sketchcast
 * Screencast-o-matic
 * jing

Photosharing
 * Flickr
 * Picasa
 * Shutterfly
 * Snapfish

Collaborative Workspaces
 * myWebspiration
 * bubbl.us
 * mindomo
 * mindmeister
 * zoho
 * googleDocs
 * box.net

Online Meetings
 * Webx - not free
 * elluminate
 * wiziq - does about 88% of what webx does, for free!! Free version does not do desktop sharing

Free Chat rooms
 * chatterous
 * stinto
 * chatzy
 * meebo

VOIP
 * Skype
 * oovoo

Virtual Learning
 * Second Life - visit DEN island (eduisland) - Every Wed. meetings by DEN