PLN

Tina Giannopoulos, Northlake Woods P.S., School Website, Twitter, Delicious, Wikispaces, Class Blog Carlo Fusco, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Twitter for Teachers PD | Twitter | Finding Fusco
 * BUILDING YOUR PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK (PLN) USING WEB 2.0 ** **CONNECT, COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE **


 * 1. Overview: What is a PLN? ** Wikipedia definition

The Innovative Educator: Eight Reasons an Innovative Educator Uses Twitter 5 Readings and 2 Videos to Help Others Get Going with PLN's 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your PLN

**2. Overview of Twitter** - What is it? Why should I use it? How does it work?

• @ symbol • # Hashtags (Today's hashtag is #watweb20.)
 * 3. Setting Up Accounts **

What the Hashtag? - tracking hashtags such as <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">#edchat found on Twitter <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">The Twitter Hashtag : What is it and how do you use it?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">• followers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• following <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• lists <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• favourites <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• retweets (RT) - give credit to others for their ideas <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• multiuser accounts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Twitter Goodies: Tweet Button (let others share your blog), Widgets, Buttons (promote your account)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Delicious, Diigo, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Packrati.us - co-ordinate with Diigo or Delicious
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">4. Tracking Your Posts **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Blogs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Google Reader - set up accounts and choose some blogs to follow <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What are RSS feeds? Subscribing to RSS feeds and classroom Blogs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">(Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Langwitches Blog, Globally Connected Learning Consultant)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">5. Finding Links and Resources to Share **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• cell phones <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• TweetDeck and Seesmic <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Yfrog and Twitpic <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• collaborating <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Google Docs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Wikis <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Wallwisher <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">• other social networks: Classroom 2.0, Around the World with 80 Schools,
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">6. Using Twitter with other Web 2.0 Apps and Devices **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">7. Going Further **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Twitter for Beginners - wiki by wcarozza

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">An Educator's Guide to Twitter - LiveBinders

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