Learn to Network, Network to Learn: Web 2.0 Technologies as Personal Learning

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1 About Me
2 About You
3 About Handouts
4 Back of the Napkin
5 What is Web 2.0?
6 Rules of Engagement
7 Twitter
8 Ning
9 It's Not Easy Understanding that Other 20%
10 How It Comes Together for "ijohnpederson"
11 Time for Conversation

[edit] About Me

Hi. I'm John. I'm one of two new Educational Technology Liaison's with WiscNet.

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[edit] About You

K12? Higher Ed? Libraries? Other?

[edit] About Handouts

There is nothing I'll say during this presentation that won't fit on the back of your hand. :) I encourage you to visit http://www.shiftedlearning.org to get at all the goodies that come along with this presentation.

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I build all my work, make it all available, and improve it over time using a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. I'm constantly trying to enrich and simplify. I encourage you to visit the site and contribute.

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[edit] Back of the Napkin

Kevin Kelly: "This stuff has fundamentally changed society, yet we still act relatively unimpressed/unaware of the magnitude of what's happening."
Concrete examples of how these tools are allowing students to rock.
Generational math.
1. Digital immigrants vs. Digital Natives is Misleading
2. We can't afford another 15 years to wait out the "digital immigrant" population
3. Digital natives are ~30 years old right now. We are making babies and these babies are ~ Kindergarten in age. Talk to your Kindergarten teachers. :)
It's time to take our own personal learning seriously. Make it personal though.
Sympathy for teaching and the reality of the situation facing teachers today. (Use Lehman's rant on LeaderTalk?) You need to begin unlearning stuff before you can relearn.
Finish with some home run examples...
1. What are teachers doing in their classrooms with Web 2.0 technologies?
2. What are some avenues to get them involved?
3. Give advice/leads/examples of "personal" ways to get involved (Facebook)

[edit] What is Web 2.0?

Web 1.0 - Connecting People to Things

For those of us that live this period in the technology world, this was providing boxes and wires for our people.
For those in the library media world, this was helping people find information.

Web 2.0 - Connecting People to People

For the technical people in this world, unfortunately the task at hand usually involves preventing people connecting to people.
For the library media people in this world, the game of finding information is over.

Web 3.0(?) - We Actually Get Some Work Done Together

It's now about finding the right amount of information at the right time and in the right context.

Library media folks have a distinct advantage in this Web 2.0 world of the web. Your business has always been a people business. Your challenge is a simple "zig" to the technology people's "zag". As they continue to wrestle their boxes and wires, it's time for you to take advantage of technology's ability to network people.

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[edit] Rules of Engagement

This isn't about the kids. They are perfectly comfortable in this new world. They invented it.
It's going to be much easier to change you than it will be to change them.
Stop worrying about the "right" answer. I empathize with what it took to get through school. Dewey, primary sources, etc.
1. Doug Johnson on Copyright
2. Wikipedia's 10,000,000th article.
You need to commit time to your own personal learning. It may involve weeks, months, or years before the payoff. It depends on what you put in.

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[edit] Twitter

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Twitter.

I sign up. Free, etc.
I tell Twitter what I'm doing. Building a bacon fort. Watching the Badgers getting it handed to them. Playing World of Warcraft with a bunch of buddies.
Noboby cares. I need a network.
I find somebody I know. I "follow" them. (Some picture from Psycho.) "Why is this guy following me?"
I find who they are following. I follow those people.
The people I'm now following see "John is interested in bacon forts, World of Warcraft, and educational technology. Interesting." They follow me.

I watch what those who I'm following are doing. They watch what I'm doing.

It's as trivial as bacon forts and the weather outside. Then somebody says, "Hey, I found this new tool called a Dappledonger. It really helps with donging my dapple." A few others try donging their dapples, enjoy it, and Tweet the Dappledonger to their friends. They bring their Dappledongers to work, test them in the library, and the donging is a hit with the patrons. Now people are Tweeting about their experiences with the Dappledongers.

Twitter Vision
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Twitter at WEMTA
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Twitter Libraries Google Search.

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