Learning never stops and no one person can know it all, do it all, or learn it all! Get help fast, when you need it, by calling on experts in your personal learning network. Take advantage of additional opportunities to learn from your peers with tools such as Facebook, Google Hangouts, blogs, and other online communities. In this session, North Carolina Master Trainers Lori Reed and Jessica O’Brien will get you started as you learn how to: Crowdsource answers to questions big and small; Prevent information burnout and overload; and create your own personal learning environment. Presented at the North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference October 18, 2013

1. Building a Personal
Learning Solution
Lori Reed
NoveList, a division of EBSCO
Jessica O’Brien
Lenoir-Rhyne University

2. Learning Objectives
• How and why to crowdsource your
learning
• Define a personal learning network
• How to create a personal learning
network
• Prevent information overload

3. http://www.egyii.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/learning.jpg

5. “Only 10-20% of
training transfers
to the job.”
Jay Cross

6. “Informal learning
accounts for over 75% of
learning taking place in
organizations today.”
Marcia Conner

7. From this:
to this:
Idea/image courtesy of Kevin James http://engagedlearning.net

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meddygarnet/3459415984

9. The information
people need to
do their jobs is
usually not
found here.

10. Idea/image courtesy of Kevin James http://engagedlearning.net

12. “For the first time in history, we know
now how to store virtually all humanity's
most important information and make it
available, almost instantly, in almost
any form, to almost anyone on earth.
We also know how to do that in great
new ways so that people can interact
with it, and learn from it.”
~Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Voss
coauthors The Learning Revolution

13. Personal Learning Environment
PLE
blog, journal,
Excel, Word,
any tool
that works
for you

14. Personal Learning
Network
PLN
friends,
supervisor,
coworkers,
books,
articles

15. Putting it all together
PLE
comments on
blogs, Facebook,
Twitter, Pinterest,
LinkedIn
SHARING
PLN

19. Technology
http://classroom-aid.com/2013/01/04/20-tips-for-creating-a-professional-learning-network/

20. Personal
Learning
Network

22. plcmclearning.blogspot.com

23. Discovery

24. Self-Paced Activity

25. I looked at the whole process as a
dare - if the rest of the staff could do
this, so could I as a representative of
the over-60 crowd!

26. The most eye-opening part of
Learning 2.0 for me has been the
variety of ways that people can
engage with each other socially
online.

27. Finding
your
way...
7 Steps to
Create Your
Personal
Learning
Solution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/supercraig/329468088/

28. Step1: What’s your learning style?
MultiModal
Source: Marianne Lenox http://www.mariannelenox.com/

29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/2308008470/
Step 2: Sign up for a feed reader

30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brightmeadow/196120731/

32. Step 4: Sign up for feeds (news)
Edublog: Best Librarian/Library 2012
Technorati Top 100
Instant RSS Search

35. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228195
Step 5: Sign up for the basics

36. bit.ly/16fxRWB
Step 6: Share, comment, participate

38. 7. Create your online presence.
Create a

39. Tips for Personal Learning
✴Just like veggies, try it more than once
✴Be part of the conversation
✴It’s ok to try, give up, try again
✴If you’re lost, ask for directions
✴Limited time? Set a timer for
discovery.

40. Info Overload

42. Google Alerts
www.google.com/alerts

43. What is your goal?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notsogoodphotography/3736972598

44. Set a time limit

46. “You can't take
something off the
Internet – it’s like
taking pee out of a
pool.”

47. Lori Reed
lreed@ebscohost.com
lorireed.com
Jessica
O’Brien
jessica.obrien@lr.edu