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Personal Learning Environments and Networks for Library Professionals
1.
2. Personal Learning Environments
• Learners Take Control of their own
Learning
• Promotes Continuous Learning
• Collaborative and Interactive
• Collection of Resources
• Multiple Spaces and Contexts
• Formal and Informal Combined
3. Where do you get your
information?
• Conferences
• Workshops
• Websites
• Videos
• Social
Networks
• Books
• Apps
9. Personal Learning Networks
• Subset to a PLE
• Inter-personal Connections
• Shares Expertise
• Collaborative
• Social
10. 3 Types of PLN Connections
Face to Face
Video
Conferencing
Instant
Messages
Synchronous
Email
RSS Feeds
Curated Links
Recordings
Asynchronous
Collaborative
Documents
Discussion
Boards
Social Media
Semi-
synchronous
11. The 4 Cs to PLNs
Contribute
Communicate
Connect
Curate
12. What Should You Follow?
Conference Tweets Blog Posts & Comments
Group Discussions
14. Netiquette Tips
• The person on the other side is still human, be nice
• Be respectful of the other person’s opinion; do not
engage in a “flame war” –series of angry
communications
• Writing in all caps is the Internet equivalent to yelling
at someone
• Don’t do or say stuff in the virtual environment that
you wouldn’t in real life
However...
interaction is the key to success in an online learning environment.
15. Who do you get your
information From?
• Subject Matter
Experts
• Trainers
• Librarians
• Bloggers
• Coworkers
• Friends
• Family
16. Connectivism
Theory
Learning is a process of creating
connections and expanding that
network.
Six Degrees
of Separation
Everyone in the world can be connected
to anyone else in under six ways.
17. Who Do You Know?
Jennifer Hopwood (Me)
SMRLA Training Coordinator
Kevin Bacon
Gretchen Caserotti
Meridian Library Director
Cen Campbell
LittleeLit Founder
Sam Eddington
ESRL Training Coordinator
Make
a
Connection!
18. Why Does it Matter?
• Soundboard for Ideas
• Source for Answers
• Helps to Keep up with Trends
19. M i l l e n n i a l C o n n e c t i o n
• Potentially larger workforce
than Baby Boomers
• Very comfortable in Networks
• Communicate through Txt Msg,
IM, Twitter, Facebook, etc
• Like instant feedback
-Franklin Covey’s Leading
Across Generations
Imageviahttp://colleendilen.com/tag/millennials/
20. Connect with Us!
Jennifer Hopwood
@jhopwood80
pinterest.com/jhopwood80
Maurice Coleman
@baldgeekinmd
Tisfortraining.wordpress.com