It’s about us – Working in a Global Community!

Consider…

Raise your hands if you:

1.Have travelled outside of WA

2.Have travelled outside of Australia

3.Regularly connect with work colleagues or family living outside

of Australia

4.Travel overseas for work

Keep your hands up if you connect via the internet.

A story…

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by: Released under an Attribution-NonCommercial License

Tony Carr, Cape Town

Virginie Aimard, Bonn

2009 Delhi, India

2001

How do we connect online?

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Read/Listen Write/Talk Create/Share

I’m not going online, ever!

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Frankie Forsyth – home office

Photo © Frankie Forsyth, all rights reserved.

Frankie Forsyth – online

Own WebsitesDel.icio.us Edna groups

Me.edna

i-Google

Twitter

FacebookWikispaces

Bloglines

Plus other people’s web spaces!

Skype

Flickr

How to get started?

(get connected)

1. Allocate yourself 15 -30 mins each day for your own PD

and/or time to go online

2. Consider your purpose, why are you doing this?

3. Analyse your willingness to ‘be there’ – be seen, heard,

read, commented on and decide how open or private you

want to be.

4. Choose an online persona (separate the professional from

the personal) eg Moodleman, whereisdot

5. Talk to your friends/colleagues re their online spaces and

identities so you can connect to them online.

6. Do an online challenge – 30 day blog, 100 day photo, 23

things.

Ways to connect

• Email, newsletters

• Listservs

• Blogs – posts and comments

• Twitter

• VOIP tools eg Skype

• Networking sites eg Ning, Facebook

• IM, Live conferences, PD activities online

• Photo sharing eg Flickr

• Presentations eg Slideshare

Google Maps

Webcams

Blogs

Delicious/Social Bookmarking

Discussion forums

Skype

Twitter

Wikis

Flickr

Elluminate or similar

YouTube

Face book

Online Surveys

Voice emails

Places to visit & things to see

Wikispaces

Finding people to connect with Approach 1

1)Search your topic area for

people, organisations you respect

AND who have an online

presence eg in Nursing midwifery

http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/

2)Post responses to what they

have written that moves, inspires

or enrages you.

Photo by Petra Released under an Attribution-ShareAlike

License

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brartist/313272029/in/photostream/

Finding people to connect with

Approach 2

1)Write yourself into existence

in your own space. This is what

Sarah Stewart did and she is now

well known in her field.

2)Comment back on the blogs

of those who are commented on

yours.Photo by Petra Released under an Attribution-ShareAlike

License

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brartist/313272029/in/photostream/

Australian educators visible onlineAny of the Flexible Learning Leaders from 2000 to 2004. Plus in no particular

order…

Leigh Blackhall (now in Canberra) Jo Kay

Sue Waters Robyn Jay

Peter Shanks Leonard Low

Michael Coghlan Kirsty Sharp

Alison Miller Marlene Manto

Carole McCullough Harriet Wakelam

Dorothy Waterhouse Kerry Johnson

Al Upton Jude Connell

Graham Wegner Caryl Oliver

Educators visible online

(outside Australia) Nancy White (USA) Stephen Downes (Canada)

Will Richardson (USA?) Gilly Salmon (UK)

George Siemens (Canada) Alan Levine (USA)

Lee LeFever (USA) Barbara Ganley (USA)

Jay Cross (USA) Ewan McIntosh (Scotland)

Tony Carr (Africa) Cathy Moore (USA)

Listserv – online facilitation

Nancy White

Emailed Newsletters

Sometimes blog writers, professional associations offer

to email a newsletter to you.

Sign up for these and review them for their usefulness

after a few months.

Ditch the ones that aren’t useful to you, i.e. unsubscribe.

BE RUTHLESS!

Two newsletters I receive are:

Stephen Downes Oldaily

http://www.downes.ca/

Flexible Learning Framework Newsletter

http://flexenews.flexiblelearning.net.au/

Stephen's Web

[CHAT] [DISCUSS] [SEARCH] [MOBILE] [ABOUT] [Archives] [OPTIONS]

OLDaily

by Stephen Downes

November 16, 2009

How to become part of a blogging ecosystem?So often, people create a blog, write a few posts,, and then wonder why they haven't attracted any readers (or they create a Facebook or twitter account, write a few posts, and wonder why they don't have any followers).

To become somebody who is followed and read, it is necessary to become a part of the ecosystem. This in turn requires reading other people, commenting on their sites and participating in discussions, responding and reacting when people comment on your comments, and spreading the message beyond the confines of your blog (or social network) account. Lilia Efimova, Mathemagenic, November 16, 2009 [Link] [Tags: Twitter, Books, Networks, Web Logs] [Comment]

And...ask people to join you.

Gathering of Hawaii Learning Colleagues:

My wife and I will be heading to Hawaii for

10 days this Friday, for a combination of

vacation and connection with some

colleagues. If you live in Hawaii, we will

be hosting an informal gathering on

Monday, November 23rd in the late

afternoon in Honolulu.

If you are in the area and would like to

join us for a conversation about learning

(and a few drinks), please send a note to

me at emasie@masie.com

Email invites

Tweet invites

Blogs

http://blog.tv.discovertasmania.com/

How to join the blogosphere?

How to become part of a blogging ecosystem?

From Stephen Downes’ OLDaily

http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/16/bec

oming-part-of-blogging-ecosystem/

Ning

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php

VOIP

www.skype.com/

Virtual Classrooms

Creative writing and art

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http://www.deviantart.com/#

http://www.lulu.com/

Keeping track of it all!

1. Create a PLE for yourself to use as a launching

pad for all your online spaces/activities

2. Use an online bookmarking service to ‘store’ the

places you’ve visited and want to remember

3. Use a feed reader to pull together the blog and

other posts into one place

4. Download or Save the most critical information

you’ve posted in an offline space

5. Develop a routine for ‘being online’

Personal Learning Environment

Feed Readers – Bloglines

Online Bookmarking - Delicious

Connecting – Make it fun

personal networks

Socialising Spaces

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Twitter

Facebook

Skype

Skype

Be visual - Flickr

1. Post your photos and graphics

on Flickr

2. Tell your friends and

colleagues your name so they

can find you

3. Use tags to identify the

photos and find them later

4. Explore Flickr for photos you

think are great and comment

on the owner’s pages.

HINT: Only post photos you

feel ok to post

Flickr –

online

image

storage

and

sharing

Comments and

Conversation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/

briansolis/2735401175/

Latest

Version

http://theconversation

prism.com/

http://flickrcc.trainingo2.net/

Guidelines on how to interact

Be yourself – use your own,

authentic voice

Write, talk or comment about

what interests you – ignore the rest

Be positive and warm,

constructively critical

Share your knowledge and

experiences, tell stories

Forward or re-post information of

use to others

Use netiquette – see Virginia

Shea’s work

Photo © Frankie Forsyth, all rights reserved.

Places to get you startedSome options:

Blogging Nancy White, Stephen Downes,

Podcasting Radio Australia, Michael Coghlan,

Videocasting Common Craft Show,

Photography Choconancy lynetter Flickr

Presentations Slideshare Web2.0inEducation

Wikis Wikieducator

Bookmarking Frankie’s delicious links

Live Events Elluminate Live Classroom Vet Virtual

Fast blogging Twitter

Networking Ning, Facebook

Issues facing educators & net usersIssues Continuum

Privacy Connectedness

Proprietary Tools Open Source Tools

In my hands Located on the web/elsewhere

Full copyright No copyright or

Creative Commons options

Slow bandwidth Super fast bandwidth

Protection against… Education to deal with…

Delivery / Qualifications Immersion / Recognition (Quals)

Working within an organisation Managing your online spaces

Make use of the time you are online

and enjoy being able to work from

anywhere – and...

Photos © Frankie Forsyth, all rights reserved.

Take time out to walk the beach :)

Bellerive

Beach,

Hobart

Nov 09

A Quick Summary Wiki (Wikispaces)

A wiki is a program that allows users to work together to build, organise and edit a

webpage. You don’t need to be a multimedia guru to use a wiki. Some of the better

known examples are Wikipedia, Wetpaint and Wikispaces.

Social Bookmarking (Delicious)

Social bookmarking e.g. delicious is a way to store, organise and share your

favourite internet pages. Using this tool, you can access your favourite web pages

from any computer that has internet access.

Blog (Blogger)

A blog is a webpage that functions as a diary or journal. It can be used to record

activity or reflect on experiences and as such is a valuable learning tool. For

example: edublogs, blogger

Micro-blogging (Twitter)

users send and read each others' text updates (tweets) which are no more than 140

characters in length.

And some more…

Online Photo Repository & Slide Show Sharing (Flickr/Slideshare)

These tools make it easy to share resources such as photos and slide shows with

your students and fellow professionals. For Example: flickr and slideshare (like

ppt).

Personal Learning Environments (iGoogle)

Personal Learning Environments are tools that enable individuals to manage the

spaces they use for their own learning (i Google).

Discussion Forums

Asynchronous postings and replies often displayed in chronological order.

VOIP (Skype)

Computer based voice and text communication – to other computers and to

landlines/mobile phones

And even more!

Virtual classrooms (Elluminate, Live Classroom, Centra, Connect)

Online room which has multiple communication tools built in – voice, text,

whiteboard, video, emoticons and can be recorded.

Video Websites (Youtube, Teachertube)

Online website where you can view, upload and comment on videos.

Social Networking Sites (Ning, Facebook)

Hosts and connects individuals through providing individual web pages,

communication tools and a wide range of add on applications.

Voice Tools (eg emails)

Very similar to text emails but using voice. Messages are recorded and played back

by the recipient

1. Top tools for learning

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html

2. Frankie’s delicious site at http://delicious.com/frankieforsyth

3. Nancy White’s delicious site at http://delicious.com/choconancy

(Nancy has sorted her 5,064 bookmarks into ‘bundles’

4. Collect feeds from Social Bookmarking into one spot at Bloglines

5. Software explanation videos http://www.commoncraft.com/

6. Store photos at flickr at http://www.flickr.com/

7. Edit photos with Picasa (Google) at

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/

8. Store presentations on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/

9. Michael Coghlan’s flickr site at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/

10.Nancy White’s flickr site at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/choconancy/ (5,726 items!)

Some websites

Interested in more?

Contact me:

Email: frankie@bigpond.net.auSkype: frankieforsythTwitter: frankiefFacebook: Frankie ForsythDelicious links: frankieforsyth http://delicious.com/frankieforsyth

Phone: 613 (03) 6278 9292

A copy of this presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/

Thank you

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