Tips and Tools for Building your PLN

Date:  Saturday, May 19, 2012
Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/
11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern
Location: Blackboard Collaborate (Formerly Elluminate)

Recording (full): https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2012-05-19.0737.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350

Tiny URL for Recording: http://hnyctt.me/cr20live-BuildingPLN-5-19-12

Recording Chat: http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR20LIVE+MAY192012

Audio Recording

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Video Recording

Topic: Tips and Tools for Building your PLN

Special Guests: Tim Wilhelmus and Brett Clark

Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions: (links shared by participants during the session are added at the end of the list and also on the Livebinder)
LiveBinder Link: http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/385022
(Note: Click on tab for "Building Your PLN" in the LiveBinder.)

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=207036 Tools for Building your PLN LiveBinder
http://playgroundadvocate.blogspot.com/ (Blog for Tim Wilhelmus)
http://www.educationdreamer.com/ (Blog for Brett Clark)
http://evscicats.com/ EVSC ICATS Website
http://www.evscicats.com/network/index.html (EVSC Network)
http://www.evscicats.com/erevolution/index.html EVSC eRevolution Conference
http://www.facebook.com/evscicats EVSC ICATS on Facebook
http://www.youtube.com/user/evscicats EVSC ICATS YouTube Channel
http://evscshowcase.blogspot.com/ EVSC Student Work Showcase
http://icats30daychallenge.blogspot.com/ 30-day Web 2.0 Challenge-EVSC
http://evscpodsandblogs.blogspot.com/ EVSC Podcasting and Blogging
http://paper.li/tag/evscnetwork# #evscnetwork paper.li newsletter
http://blog.teachercast.net/ (TeacherCast.net Blog)
Some great ready-made PLNs:
http://www.edutopia.org/ (Edutopia)
http://plpnetwork.com/ (PLP Network)
http://edutecher.net/ (eduTecher)
http://edupln.ning.com/ (The Educator’s PLN)
http://www.curriculum21.com/clearinghouse/ (Curriculum 21)
http://ed.ted.com/ (TED Ed)
http://edudemic.com/ (Edudemic)
http://vodcasting.ning.com/ (The Flipped Class Network)
http://www.edweb.net/ (EdWeb)
http://sqworl.com/5tii3e (Sqworl website)

https://twitter.com/#!/Mr_Brett_Clark
https://twitter.com/#!/twilhelmus

Links shared in chat by participants: (included here and also included in the Livebinder)
http://shamblesguruipad.posterous.com/twitter-apps-on-my-ipad-inc-browser (Shamblesguru: Twitter Apps on My iPad)
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/tagging/ (Shamblesguru: Resources for tagging)
http://twitterfall.com (Twitterfall)
http://www.creativeeducation.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/05/twitterfall/ (Joe Dale: Twitterfall which includes a screencast)
http://www.tweetdeck.com (Tweetdeck)
http://youtu.be/Owo3tOdGcfk (Shamblesguru: This video of my Twitter Follows is guaranteed to make you smile ... using a Japanese website ... try it)
http://hootsuite.com/ (Hootsuite)
http://memolane.com/explore (MemoLane)
http://www.cybraryman.com/chats.html (Cybraryman: Education Chats to follow)
https://sites.google.com/site/istenewbieproject/ (Help send Cybraryman to ISTE12-he’s the 2012 ISTE Newbie choice because even though he supports thousands of educators with technology uses, he’s never been to ISTE)
http://bit.ly/K2YmaB  (Google Calendar of edu hashtag sessions with times displayed in your local time ... plus you can embed it in your own website )
http://www.classroomblogging.com/twitter-for-beginners (Free webinar recording for session taught by Kim Caise and Lorna Costantini on Twitter for Beginners-includes demo of Tweetdeck)
http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/ (Backup your twitter chat with google spread sheet from Martin Hawksey-video tutorials to help you)
http://paper.li/ (Paper.li)
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=0AsjRgHG7fwypdGFUVEZROTI1VWF4TUNlZm5rUkxiOWc&sheet=oaw (a sample archived tweet chat from google spreadsheet: Just Google It WA)
http://tweetedtimes.com/ (Tweeted Times)
http://paper.li/discoveryed/star-discovery-educators (this is the Paper.li for The Discovery Education Daily)
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/02/30-inspiring-pinterest-pins-for-teachers/ (great blog post about Pinterest for teachers)
http://www.scoop.it/t/what-s-new-on-shambles-net (Shamblesguru: For curating on the web I'm a BIG fan of Scoop.it)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachercast-pro/id460774278?mt=8 (TeacherCast app)
http://live.classroom20.com/1/category/joemazza/1.html (Joe Mazza, Principal, recorded session on Classroom 2.0 LIVE re using social media with parents, teachers and students)
https://twitter.com/#!/teachercast (Jeff Bradbury/TeacherCast on Twitter)
http://jeffbradbury.me/ (Jeff Bradbury’s website)
http://www.ruralteachers.com/  K/1 class blog)
http://sarahjane.edublogs.org/listen-to-reading/ (Sqworl example)
http://www.nmc.org/publications/2012-horizon-report-k12 (the 2012 Horizon Report for K12 will be out soon)
http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports (Horizon Reports for trends in educational technology)
http://www.shambles.net/csmith/PLN/ (Shamblesguru: My own PLN is quantified and visualised here)
http://pinterest.com/esheninger/ (Pinterest example from a principal-Eric Sheninger)
http://www.evscicats.com/code/ (Brett Clark: Also check this out  to see our move to digital content)
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.ca/ (Blog for Vicki Davis/CoolCatTeacher)
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ (Wes Fryer's blog)
http://thewallmachine.com/  (Fake Facebook Walls without joining Facebook)
http://faketweetbuilder.com/  (Fake Tweet Builder--teachers could start by using this and not feel overwhelmed)
http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/2010/09/learning-to-blog-using-paper.html (Paper Blogging with Karen McMillan/McTeach)