http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/p_naugle

If your looking to explore technology and education a bit and don’t want to go to a workshop, you can try the PLN (personal learning network) Challenge sponsored by Edublogs.  They will be publishing 2 or 3 post per week for 30 days about setting up, enhancing, and participating in your very own personal learning network. This would be a great way to explore what a personal learning network is and think about how you could use it for professional development as well as in your classroom.  The beauty of this is that you can do it on your own schedule.  Also, you don’t even have to do it this month.  Just save the link read the posts when you have time.  Here’s the link.

Click here for the PLN Challenge

Hello everyone,
In hopes of creating a Personal Learning Network, I’m going to be reviving my blog and posting to it on a more regular basis. The content will be all things related to technology and education. There will be links to resources, technology tips, philosophy of technology and education, tutorials, and hopefully some self paced learning on things like bookmarking, and calendaring.

Blog
This is the link to my blog. You can subscribe via RSS,just check back every so often, or use the subscribe via email link on the blog.

http://blogs.pikeschool.org/aaronhovel/

Facebook
If you are on Facebook you can “like” my Facebook page. All the blog posts will also show up on the Facebook page.  If you “like” my page, those updates will show up in your News Feed. This makes it very easy for you to see when updates have been made.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Hovels-Technology-and-Education-Page/208787989163244?sk=wall

Twitter
New posts to my blog will also show up on my Twitter Feed. So you can follow me there if it is easier for you.

http://twitter.com/#!/aaronhovel

Have a great summer and I hope we can create a Person Learning Network together.

Aaron

What is a PLN?

a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience… to provide us not only with pointers to sources of information, but to answer questions, to coach us, to reinforce our learning when we try to apply it to our work. – Daniel R. Tobin

A PLN can include fellow students, teachers, parents, friends, and relatives.  Because of the Internet your PLN can include people that live in your town but can also include people who live across the World.  We will use some web based tools to help us extend our PLN beyond Pike School’s borders.  Below is a list of some of the tools we will investigate.

• RSS Feeds
• Blogs
• Skype – Voice over IP, texting, video chatting
• Diigo – social bookmarking and research tool
• Podcasts – a series of audio and video content that can be downloaded to a computer or ipod
• Twitter – micro blogging – shorts updates of 140 characters or less about and idea, a question, or what your doing.
• Google Docs – online word processing
• Flickr – photo sharing
• VoiceThread – allows for conversations around a picture, video, document, or audio
• Youtube – vidoe sharing website
• Livebinders – online 3 ring binder.  You can organize website, pictures, videos, documents all in one place
• Wikis – a website that allows for easy creation of websites that can be edited via a web browser
• Facebook – social networking site