Week 5 PLNs and PLEs Misael J. Talon

Week 5: PLNs and PLEs
A summary of what a PLN & PLE are:
           The use of PLEs may herald a greater emphasis on the role that metacognition plays in learning, enabling students to actively consider and reflect upon the specific tools and resources that lead to a deeper engagement with content to facilitate their learning. PLN- Whether you’re a full-time mom, a full-time teacher, or a full-time student, your PLN can be extremely interesting and helpful. The beauty of people communicating online is the ease of finding and sharing information and – if you ask for it – the group feedback that you get on ideas and projects.

 A metaphor to explain a PLN & PLE
            Since I have been teaching in a classroom for eight years, I want to stay abreast of all the current research and make connections by connecting to the world by using the internet.

Examples of content in a PLN & PLE (try to name digital and non-digital examples)
           Category Value Examples and Guides RSS Reader RSS means “Real Simple Syndication” – an RSS reader is a tool that allows you to keep up with many of your favorite blogs, all in once place (see this video ‘RSS in Plain English’) Netvibes, (My Netvibes),PageFlakes, Google Reader Nings Communities of people interested in similar topics, with forums and messaging Classroom 2.0, Future of Education, Ning Social Bookmarking Share bookmarks with others, see what others are bookmarking; you can join groups and get email updates on new bookmarks Diigo, Diigo Groups,Delicious Webinars Live, on-line presentations or conferences, with real-time chat, hosted by experts on specific topics; Great way to learn about new things and to meet new people Classroom 2.0 Live!,EdTechTalk Live,Elluminate – host your own!, Dim Dim

Your feelings on the idea of a PLN/PLE and how it might be useful to teachers and students                 PLN/PLE contains some great ideas. I’ve recently discovered the joys if twitter and the blogs
 as a way to gather lesson ideas and other innovative ideas to improve my own practice and have found links here which I hope will enable me to get further involved in web 2.0.