PLN – All the blog posts from the #onl181 community

Tweets, Threads and a domain of one’s own

Posted on July 14, 2023 by KayO

As someone who has spent a lot of time reading, researching and reflecting about social media, I felt it was incumbent upon me to join the conversation about the current state of social media even though, like so many, I feel that it is quite frankly a…

Putting theory into Practice: How Networked Learning Transcends Disciplines

Posted on October 29, 2020 by KayO

2020 has been quite a year for everyone. I won’t bore you with my personal story of how 2020 has turned my life upside down, because I am sure you have your own! However I will say that I am writing this blog post from a completely different pers…

School library collection development: It’s not as simple as you might think

Posted on August 19, 2019 by KayO

This semester, I have been lecturing in the unit EUN617, Managing and Organising Collections as part of the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) course at Queensland University of Technology. From the outside looking in, collection development s…

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…

Navigating the network for quality, credibility and authenticity: A challenge for connected professionals

Posted on July 11, 2019 by KayO

On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog… via GIPHY It’s funny because it is true. When engaging with professional learning through your PLN, it is essential to have the capacity to quickly and effectively evaluate information and r…

Effective time management: A challenge for connected professionals

Posted on July 9, 2019 by KayO

Anyone who has spent anytime engaging with social networks and the internet in general will know of its addictive qualities. Whether it is endlessly scrolling through photos on Instagram, reading Tweets as they pop up during your favourite reality tele…

Managing infowhelm: A challenge for Connected Professionals

Posted on July 8, 2019 by KayO

Initiating and maintaining a Personal Learning Network (PLN) can be an incredibly exciting, rewarding and very effective way to engage with professional learning. However, learning mediated by social networks is not without its challenges. This post is…

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…

What next? Looking for a new grand adventure!

Posted on May 16, 2019 by KayO

Although I’ve blogged for many years, I created this space at the beginning of my PhD journey, over 3 years ago. As I re-read my first post to this blog, I am amazed at how quickly the time has passed, and I honestly can’t quite believe tha…

Another exciting online learning experience – the Twitter Conference

Posted on April 22, 2019 by KayO

Experimenting with different online learning opportunities which take advantage of the affordances of openly networked online social technologies underpins my approach to learning and teaching. Just as I encourage participants in the subjects that I te…

Out with the old: Using a Twitterchat as a formal learning strategy

Posted on April 16, 2019 by KayO

This semester I am teaching LCN600 Connected Learning, as part of the Master of Education course at Queensland University of Technology. This course explores online connected and networked learning. Students are first challenged to map and analyse a co…

Update: Creating and managing a lifestream as an Early Career Academic

Posted on February 26, 2019 by KayO

I began this year with the plan to create a lifestream blog – something that curated observations, discoveries, articles, images, music – in fact any digital artefact – that I encountered or spent time thinking about as I started my r…

Welcome to 2019!

Posted on January 20, 2019 by KayO

I initiated this blog at the beginning of 2016, as I began my doctoral research journey. It feels like I have only blinked, and now I am writing the first post of 2019, having spent my allotted three years researching, reading and writing. I now find m…

PLNs and flipping the system: Advancing teacher voice

Posted on October 7, 2018 by KayO

This post was inspired by and is a reflective response to some of the issues raised by Dr Deborah Netolicky in her recent blog post: Teacher voice to flip the education system: ACEL 2018 panel presentation. Thank you Dr Netolicky for raising these very…