Sue Waters Blog

One year ago I asked my network to complete a survey on Personal Learning Network.
The survey was used in a series of presentations and to build my PLN Yourself website.
Being a year later I’m wondering how much has changes?  Are we using different tools to connect?  Are the tools we would recommend to new people [...]

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Credit where credit is due is important.
Yes the “Twitter Handbook for Teachers” is an excellent resource.
While it is lovely for people on twitter to regularly thank me for the resources I create (and to get all the retweets of thanks) — I DID NOT write Twitter Handbook for Teachers.  But I can understand why people [...]

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Last week I was invited to present on PLNs (personal learning networks) as part of Getting Connected 09 for The Australian Flexible Learning Frameworks.
As the conference targeted the VET sector I decided to take a different PLN approach and share how social networking tools can create communities of professionals, and students, that help each other.
Skills [...]

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Next week I will be in Melbourne (from 3-7th December) for Converge 08 and will be doing two presentations:

How Tweet IT is! PD in the 21st Century
The Connected Trainer – presenting with Simon Brown

Emphasis of both will be on different aspects of personal learning networks (PLNs). I will also be sharing the results of [...]

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It’s well known that I’m a self confessed Twitteraholic and twitter is an important part of my personal learning network. I’ve even written a Quick Start Tips for New Twitters.
Yet I’ve never been comfortable with recommending twitter as a starting point to build a personal learning network.
Maybe I’m too conservative?
Twitter is currently ranking the [...]

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I’m going to be doing a series of presentation on Personal Learning Networks (PLN) over the next few months. With these types of presentation I like to to demonstrate the importance of PLNs by asking my network to help me.
For my previous presentation I asked my readers a series of questions on PLN. [...]

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Thanks to everyone who helped me demonstrate the power of personal learning networks for my presentation yesterday. Your comments, tips and advice were THE essential part of my presentation because I wanted to demonstrate a personal learning network in action to show how it extends our learning and reflection beyond what is normally achieved [...]

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I’d really love your help to demonstrate the importance of personal learning networks so I’m hoping you will help me with my presentation by sharing your thoughts.
The Background
I’m doing a presentation for Educational Computing Association of Western Australia (ECAWA) State Conference next Friday to overview the ways educators can use online tools to forge personal [...]

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