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 * Building Your "Personal Learning Network" (PLN)**
 * What is the definition? Personal rather than professional. Choice
 * How do the new tools change this?
 * Practical (who can demonstrate)
 * RSS can be confusing. (Really Simple Syndication). RSS allows readers to aggregate (to collect) information without having to visit every website you're interested in. The organization who create that site (or page) allows their information to be grouped into one single place (ie. to be aggregated.)
 * eg. If I follow Carole and Peter on their website, then I can go to my RSS reader and see what's new. With two people, it's not that hard. If you're interested in 30 blogs, you don't want to visit 30 blogs everyday. A RSS reader allows you to scan and read from all these aggregated sites in one place.
 * Readers/ Aggregators / RSS / Examples
 * iGoogle / Netvibes are examples of web applications that aggregate RSS. Google news search can also add to RSS feeds. Example of iGoogle being shown as a left hand side "widget" which allows you to group RSS feeds by categories. Education, Sports, Games etc. Feeds can be mixed together, like New York Times, the Age, or other educator blogs who are part of your Personal Learning Network. (PLN). (Note: a widget is a small element that serves different functions. eg. a RSS widget, or a calendar widget etc).
 * Google Reader [|http://reader.google.com]
 * YouTube tutorial on How to Use Google Reader []
 * Free RSS Reader (iPhone) []
 * Reeder (iOS - high quality RSS reader) []
 * Reeder (iOS - high quality RSS reader) []

>>> Transmedia in Education [] >>>
 * Zite for iPad (Aggregate readers via your PLN AND a recommendation engine). []
 * Flipboard (Aggregate reader via your PLN) []
 * Paper.li - an example of Paper.li on mobilelearning #mlearning hashtag on twitter []
 * Scoop.it examples Digital Literacy in Education []
 * Scoop.it examples Digital Literacy in Education []
 * **Twitter Tools / Examples**
 * [] "Mum, this is how twitter works" Great explanation on how to use twitter in plain English
 * [] Slideshare presentation
 * Twitter help for educators: []
 * [] Comprehensive range of educator Twitter resources
 * A great range of educators to follow on Twitter []

>>> Social Networks Tools / Examples (Facebook, Linked In, Ning--various...)
 * **Social Bookmarking Tools**
 * Diigo ([|http://www.diigo.com]) Group on mobile learning on Diigo [] Edtechcrew on Diigo [] and on twitter @edtechcrew []
 * Trunk.ly ([|http://trunk.ly]) [] @hamishcurry on twitter (eg. [])
 * Delicious ([|http://www.delicious.com])
 * Storify ([|http://storify.com]) eg. Research into Literacies 2.0 []
 * **Various Ning educator communities**
 * Teacher 2.0 founded by Steve Hargadon []?
 * Teacher Librarian ning []
 * [|http://englishcompanion.ning.com]
 * The Educator PLN: [] (Founded by Tom Whitby @tomwhitby on Twitter, co-founder of #edchat on twitter)
 * Learning without Frontiers (on LinkedIn)
 * [] (where discussion happens across multiple subgroups focusing more specialities. eg. Early childhood education, mobile learning, adult learning etc.)
 * Main site: []


 * **Cooperative group blogs of educators:**
 * **The Connected Principals** (an international network of administrator educators) []
 * Twitter account to follow (as a "type" of RSS feed, showing new published content) [] @conprin is the handle
 * Twitter hashtag to follow realtime discussions []
 * **The Cooperative Catalyst**
 * []
 * Twitter account to follow (as a "type" of RSS feed, showing new published content) [] @coopcatalyst is the handle
 * **ProjectPLN** []


 * HABITUDES
 * INSPIRATIONS
 * RESOURCES
 * Hands-on (helpers / who needs help)