1. TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING Participants will learn ways to build their own Professional Leaning Network through OER for educators, un-conference learning opportunities, online portfolios, and social bookmarking. Please bring your computer! By Michele Hurley Davis

2. What is a Professional Learning Community? --OR -- --OR -- A Personal Learning Network? Why should we have one? Why should we have one? n. – the entire collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information, usually online.

3. Here are some ways that educators are using their PLNs: - Professional development – learn from content-area specialists - Locate resources for your classroom, such as free websites and software - Get lesson plan ideas from master teachers - Learn about new technology and how to integrate it into your teaching - Find collaborative solutions - Find interesting links to education news

4. Welcome to My PLE – Personal Learning Environment! Welcome to My PLE – Personal Learning Environment! – a 7 th Grade Students’ PLE Welcome to My PLE – Personal Learning Environment!

5. Will Richardson’s weighs in on PLN’s Will Richardson’s weighs in on PLN’s Will Richardson is the author of the highly ranked and read edublog Weblogg-ed and author of the book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Wikipedia

6. 5 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.0

7. 1.Create an account. www.symbaloo.comwww.symbaloo.com 2.Verify account through your email. 3.Click on HOME webmix. * Click on Change Wallpaper (optional). 1.Choose one of their themes. 2.Upload a photo of yours. 3.(Or) Go to Google, find a picture, Save As, and Upload it as Theme.

8. 4. Rename Home Webmix (optional) 5. GREEN tiles (Click Weather, Settings) 6. WHITE tiles (Facebook) (Flickr) (Pandora) 7. Twitter 8. Move tiles around

9. 9. ADD: A. Classroom 2.0 B. TED blog C. The Innovative Educator Blog D. Look for at least 2 more sites or blogs you might be interested in 1. Search up top 2. Search in an already existing tile 3. Go to Google: Top 100 Edu Blogs

10. 1.Go back into Twitter 2.Sign up for account, if you haven’t already 3.Check out some of the ones listed on Word document 4.Search for other issues you might like: 1.Common Core 2.Constructivism 3.Politicians 4.Sports players, celebrities, musicians, etc.

11. 1.Create account, if you don’t have one. 2.Create boards. 3.Search for Education, Common Core, high school English, bulletin board ideas, etc., etc.

13. So, how do we navigate this world in the 21 st Century? --collaborate--connect--communicate--create My ePortfolio My ePortfolio

14. But we also have to remember to take time to… Thank you! Michele Davis mldavis@tie.net SURVEY: http://tinyurl.com/PL CsPLNs