Personal+Learning+Networks

The most awe-inspiring, exciting, and scary aspect of the Web 2.0 is just how easy it is to share information. To collaborate. With people from across the room and across the world. Imagine inviting a colleague or expert into your classroom -- without cost and with existing equipment -- having a video conversation with a classroom in Europe. Right here. Right now. Looking for input on a classroom situation, or for perhaps a better way to accomplish a task? With a personal learning network in place, you can ask your question and perhaps have answers in minutes. Let's start building our Personal Learning Network so that we too can take control and conquer the mountain.
 * Wednesday, July 9 - Personal Learning Networks (Ning, ISEnet, Pownce, Twitter, Skype)**

Schedule
 * Learning Communities - connecting to peers, experts, friends
 * [|The Art & Technique of Personal Learning Networks]
 * Social Networking for Teachers
 * Social Networking in Plain English - http://youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc
 * Facebook & MySpace - Open Social Networks
 * Ning - Purposed Social Networks - Examples:
 * ISEnet - http://isenet.ning.com/
 * Classroom 2.0 - http://classroom20.ning.com
 * An experiment: MV Faculty Lounge - http://mvfaculty.ning.com/
 * Micro-Blogging; connecting around the world
 * Twitter in Plain English - http://youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
 * How educators are using Twitter - http://www.twitter.com
 * [|Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool]
 * [|Twitter in Academics: This Prof Shows How to Do It]
 * Twhirl client: http://www.twhirl.org/
 * Another tool: Pownce - http://www.pownce.com
 * Two-Way Communications
 * Skype - Audio & Video - http://www.skype.com