Presentation given at the British Council Teacher Conference, Barcelona, September 25th 2010

1. Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments British Council Teacher Conference http://britishcouncilteachersconference2010.wikispaces.com 25 th September 2010 [email_address] http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

2. Outline of Presentation Before & After Twitter - How is it being used? Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) - PLE vs PLN - PLE vs VLE - Helping Teachers Twitter & English Learners - Introducing learners Questions

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/iateflonline

12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/iateflonline

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s3a/m/

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepses before twitter...

20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jliba/

22. Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments British Council Teacher Conference 25 th September 2010 [email_address] http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipeapple/3280609082/ Social software Spoilt for choice

27. “ Social software offers the opportunity to narrow the divide between producers and consumers. Consumers themselves become producers, through creating and sharing. One implication is the potential for a new ecology of ‘open’ content, books, learning materials and multimedia, through learners themselves becoming producers of learning materials.” (Attwell, 2007) New approach to using technologies for learning.

28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubspot/3111238226/ Barriers against Teacher take-up - “ twittiquete ” - impression of Twitter cliques

29. http://twitter.com/barbsaka/starter-pln

30. Autonomous 'Personal Learning Networks’ for Language Teachers APLaNeT Seven Partners: ISTEK, Turkey University West Scotland, UK – Sofia University, Bulgaria British Council, Spain – EuroEd Foundation, Romania CELT Athens, Greece – Pelikan, Czech Republic Associate Partners – 140 institutions from 33 countries

31. not 'build and they will come' but go to where the people are

33. inform about and support teachers in a wide variety of social networks http://www.slanguages.net/

34. http://www.facebook.com/LearnEnglish.BritishCouncil

36. introducing learners to Twitter

37. introducing learners to Twitter

38. introducing learners to Twitter

39. introducing learners to Twitter

40. learners use of Twitter

41. learners use of Twitter

42. learners use of Twitter

43. learners use of Twitter

44. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/3616155715/ Twitter as a student self-help line the mobile factor

45. References http://eltple.wikispaces.com/ - Attwell (2007) Personal Learning Environments – the future of e-learning ? www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media11561.pdf - Downes (2010) Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Project http://ple.elg.ca/ - Various (2010) Personal Learning Environments http://edutechwiki.unige.ch - Weinberger (2007) The Power of the New Digital Disorder (New York:Holt)

46. Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments British Council Teacher Conference http://britishcouncilteachersconference2010.wikispaces.com 25 th September 2010 [email_address] http://eltple.wikispaces.com/