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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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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As part of my presentations on Personal Learning Networks (PLN) I created a PLN Yourself site to help new people work through setting up their own Personal Learning network.
The site focuses on the top 5 tools for building your own PLN based on 196 responses in my Personal Learning Network (PLN) Survey.
This site has been [...]

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Been suffering from insomnia for the past few weeks so imagine my surprise when I started up my computer at 3.00 AM to suddenly see the following tweet on my desktop:

mmmm who is Amber and why is she talking about me?
Going back through Rob’s tweets I discover that Amber Macarthur is doing her keynote presentation [...]

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This post is a quick overview of The Connected Trainer workshop (45 mins) that I presented with Simon Brown at Converge08. Since the participants were shown an overwhelming number of online tools throughout the conference we decided it was better for them to reflect on they could become more connected.
Survey of Workshop Participants
Before [...]

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This week I was invited to Melbourne to present at Converge08 by eWorks. I was involved in two presentations:

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

Emphasis of both was on the different aspects of personal learning networks (PLNs). This post is a quick overview of [...]

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So far there has been 196 responses in my Personal Learning Network (PLN) Survey since it was created in October.  And I know a lot of people are interested in what it all means and how I am using this information so let me explain.
About the PLN Survey
I’ve been doing a few presentations on building [...]

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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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