personal learning network – All the blog posts from the #onl181 community

Managing a professional digital identity: A challenge for connected professionals

Posted on July 12, 2019 by KayO

Every interaction we have online leaves indelible traces which are often referred to as our digital footprint. It is the data created by “what you’ve said, what others have said about you, where you’ve been, images you’re tagged…

Challenges for Connected Professionals: The shadow-side of the PLN

Posted on July 8, 2019 by KayO

When you speak with teachers who maintain a Personal Learning Network (PLN) for professional learning, most of them wonder how they ever lived without it. Being able to tap into the global ‘hive mind’ to seek inspiration, new pedagogical ap…

Linking, Stretching and Amplifying at the National Education Summit in Brisbane

Posted on May 30, 2019 by KayO

In this post, you will find an overview of my presentation which I gave at the National Education Summit in Brisbane, where I presented in the Capacity Building, School Libraries Strand. To give you a summary of my presentation, here is the abstract de…

Learning in Communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on November 16, 2018 by onlinelearningthoughts

Perhaps one of the first examples of a learning within a network or community in the field of technology was that of Steve Wozniak and the Wednesday garage meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. This was an informal group of computer hobbyists who in March 1975 began to hold weekly meetings centered around the development…

Designing a connected future – A keynote for the UQ Cyberschool Seminar

Posted on July 20, 2018 by KayO

On Friday 20 July I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote for the UQ Cyberschool Seminar, which is an annual professional learning event for educators, with a particular focus for teacher librarians. I have included my presentation below, and also…

Personal Learning Networks and Pedagogy – what’s the connection?

Posted on June 11, 2018 by KayO

A few weeks ago now, I was honoured to visit the University Pedagogy Centre at Lulea University of Technology, in Northern Sweden. During the week I spent working with Oskar Gedda, Malin Larsson Lindback and their team, we discussed the role of PLNs i…