This is a presentation for a VANAS Conference at Colegio Internacional de Carabobo. Venezuela

1. Personal Learning Networks
Ana Valentina Chavez
EBV

2. Why?

3. • Gap between how we learned and how we teach today
• The urge to stay current
• The transformation of our practice
Why?

4. Personal
Learning
Network
The open bubble

5. • Informal
• Free
• Independent
• Appealing
PLN

6. Significance
Filters
1.0
2.0
The importance of the P

7. 1.0
2.0
“I consume”
“I create and share”
… but how?
1.0 & 2.0

8. • When am I going to have the time to sit and write a
post?
• It’s impossible to read all tweets.
• I barely have any time to plan a lesson And grade,
when will I have the time to tweet or blog?
The struggle

9. You create your own rules.
Schedule
Automatic
posts
Twitter
Lists
Filters
The importance of the P

10. Simple
Quick
Micro blogging
Conversations
The 2.0 Teacher and the newborn
PLN

11. • Class communication
• Student tweets
• Teacher tweets
• Parents are informed
• Engaging teacher-student and student-student
interaction
More Twitter

12. • Global connections
• Social skills
• Authentic audience
• Social skills
• Home – School
• Classroom community
• Literacy
Blogging

13. Teachers’ learning
1. Join a conversation
2. Share your thoughts
3. Engage in discussions
Blogging – 1 way…

14. Main source of brand new
content
Blogging – 1 way…

15. Class blog
1. Define the purpose
2. Plan for content
3. Start posting
Blogging – the other way…

16. Class page
1. Define the purpose
2. Plan for content
3. Start posting
Facebook pages
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17. Are you ready to
become 2.0?