A Principal's Reflections

JULY 29, 2013

Being on an isolated island in terms of access to information had a real negative impact on my ability to move my school forward during my first two years as principal. Becoming connected and developing my own Personal Learning Network (PLN) freed me from the purgatory that the traditional system of education had created.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But it is about making connections for learning through the ''free'' tools we have at our disposal - social media. In the context of this post, PLN stands for Personal Learning Network , and CoP stands for Communities of Practice. Little if any research seems to have been conducted into a comparison between them.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 13, 2012

In it, they represented a number of perspectives on personal learning environments, including a discussion on the differential between institutionally managed Virtual Learning Environments (or VLEs) and the free tools that learners are now using on the web. It goes farther.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Learning in any mode, in any place and at any time is accessible to anyone with the means to access it.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

Twitter, Google+, Facebook comparison Twitter, Facebook, RSS, Email, Google+ - tips on use Facebook and Google+ security and privacy Common Craft Video on Social Media Create a Personal Learning Network UPDATED thanks to a great comment below. Educators need to get online as part of their profession.

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