So you've started with Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook. You belong to 20 different Educational Nings, but now what? How do you go beyond being a spectator in the PLN world and become an active participant. In this session you will discover tools to keep track of your contacts and why you just need to let some projects loose.

1. Personal Learning NetworksBeyond the Tools Bethany V. Smith College of Education at NC State University

2. So you’vesigned up for...

10. Now what do you do?

11. Trim down

12. Get organized

13. Engage

16. Go Beyond Lurking

18. You don’t have to read every tweet!

19. Trim down

21. Get organized

24. Its about PEOPLEnot TOOLS

25. bethanyvsmith

27. Use Twitter as your gateway technology

29. Trim down

30. Pick 1 or 2

32. Get organized

33. RSS for Group Discussions

34. Its about PEOPLEnot TOOLS

36. Wait! What about Blogs?

37. RSS

42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23324812@N00/93936385 Respond to Blog Posts

43. http://www.flickr.com/photos/62884569@N00/2060506605 BLOG

44. But this takes time

45. Valuable investment

48. Its about PEOPLEnot TOOLS

49. All images in this presentation are licensed via http://delicious.com/bethanyvsmith/pp_photo

50. Bethany Smith bethany_smith@ncsu.edu http://transparentlearning.blogspot.com http://bethanyvsmith.pbwiki.com/ @bethanyvsmith