Building Personal Learning Networks – Engaging Adult Learners
Posted by Nadine Norris on March 2, 2008
This is a presentation by Vinnie Vrotny. Unlike other presentations, Vinnie tried to make it interactive by giving the group guiding questions to discuss for a few minutes to get us thinking and talking about personal learning networks. His goal was clearly to get us to network with others around us. The ICE conference is always a good way to network and I like to take advantage of the opportunity to meet other enthusiastic educators. The complete presentation can be found here.
My “Big Three”:
- Set up a social networking or web2.0 application for parent workshops. Include videos, articles, prompt questions. Encourage engagement and for parents to be a guide and a mentor rather than a policeman.
- Use twitter and the Ning network to extend my personal learning network
- Facilitate personal learning networks with others in my district. I’ve discussed this possibility with a couple of staff members and was met with lukewarm response. I need to find a way to show them examples and demonstrate the value.
- Set up a tool to develop a learning network for our chapter of ICE (ICE-COLD)
Has anyone noticed that my big three is usually more than three?
March 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Nadine,
Thank you for getting what I intended on doing with my presentation. From my perspective, getting others to participate and network was very successful and I am glad I took the risk. It also make us change our perceptions as to what a conference session should be, moving more towards a guide on the side model. Not quite perfect, but worth the movement.