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4 Ways To Grow Your Personal Learning Network This Week

The Web20Classroom

Our personal learning networks are all different. Each of us has something different to learn and different to offer. We don’t just decide to have a personal learning network and we find some folks to follow and we are done. Mine looks different from yours and yours from mine.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

IOT – Internet of Things (Connecting devices to a network i.e. lights, phones, TVs). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment.

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Grow Your Own Personal Learning Network

Nik Peachey

This is just a quick posting to share a session on building your own Personal Learning Network, that I did for teachers in British Council Bilbao recently (25th September 2010). Related links: Pros and Cons as Web Based Research Tasks Creating Social Polls and Questionnaires Using Urtak Social Networks and the Web 2.0

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Three GREAT (and Free) Virtual Conferences Where You Can Attend, Present, or Volunteer!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Held over the course of two days (three actual calendar days when including all time zones), there will likely be over 150 presentations. Library 2.012 ( [link] ) October 3 - 5, 2012 In its second year, the Library 2.012 conference is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies.

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The Free Learning 2.0 Conference: Great Keynotes and Sessions and YOU!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning 2.0 is a free conference and is held online, in multiple time zones, over the course of five days. It is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on rethinking teaching and learning in the age of the Internet.

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8 Ways for Teachers (and Parents) to Use Twitter

Gaggle Speaks

You can create your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) for free. You will learn what’s happening beyond the walls of your own classroom or school and be able to compare and share what you’re doing with schools across the globe. Hashtags (#) on Twitter make it easy to find and organize topics you find interesting.

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