This sounds like something we should all consider viewing. Check it out if you get a chance.
Developing Your Personal Learning Network
Presenter: Bud HuntDate: September 30, 2009Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EDTAudience: Secondary Teachers, Teacher Leaders, Media Specialists
In an age of information abundance, the answers to many questions may only be a Google search away. Better yet, the people who can answer them, and who need your help, too, are available in real or semi-real time to help you and your students to solve problems. In this web seminar, we will look at how educators are creating personal learning networks for themselves and their students, making classroom connections across town and around the world using tools like Twitter, blogs, and wikis, among others. We will also think about questions like: What happens when the classroom walls are permeable and you can use digital tools to bring people and information to you? How do social media practices influence life in the classroom? Outside of the classroom? Is there still a "classroom" when everyone has a personally-constructed learning network? Participants will leave with some good starting places and suggestions for how to begin to build learning networks for themselves and for and with their students at all levels K-12.
Can't attend? Click here to access the On Demand version of Bud Hunt's Web seminar.
Bud Hunt is an instructional technologist for the St. Vrain Valley School District in northern Colorado. Formerly, he taught high school language arts and journalism at Olde Columbine High School in Longmont, Colorado. He is a teacher-consultant with the Colorado State University Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project, a group working to improve the teaching of writing in schools via regular and meaningful professional development. Bud is a former co-editor of the New Voices column of English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. Bud is a co-founder of Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation and has served as an Online Community Leader for the New Jersey Cohort of Powerful Learning Practice, a long-term, job-embedded professional development program that immerses participants in 21st Century learning environments.
