Learning is Change

Who is in your Anti-PLN? Or, Avoiding TeamThink.

 

After thinking about the ways in which we can develop incredibly insulated learning networks, I wanted to create a way to find alternative voices. Eventually, I stumbled across the idea of creating a profile for the types of people that aren’t represented in my networks and then going after them.

Original Ginger Lewman Video that served as inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cCIDc6tE0U

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/116395158372553895482

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We have had some new folks join the community in the last week, and I wanted to give everyone an opportunity to…

 

We have had some new folks join the community in the last week, and I wanted to give everyone an opportunity to subscribe to their channels:

Andy Mitchell http://www.youtube.com/user/ImmatureStudent

Angela Towndrow http://www.youtube.com/user/angelatowndrow

Ary Aranguiz http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYn068gYR0ujdC3gLH7KAGA

Chris Swift http://www.youtube.com/user/chrisleithswift

Darren Kuropatwa http://www.youtube.com/user/dtkuropatwa

Joe Dillon http://www.youtube.com/user/1wheeljoe

rachel wente-chaney http://www.youtube.com/user/rwentechaney

willa Ryerson http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdPcaj1werzoyg-a9NSOjQ

There are also a couple of other folks that I couldn’t find Youtube links for. I will be updating the master list quite soon, but I thought I would provide Andy’s face with these links because I think it will convince you to subscribe to them. Have a great night everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ImmatureStudent

If you didn’t already see it in the #etmooc  community, I wanted to share the way I am starting to think about this…

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If you didn’t already see it in the #etmooc  community, I wanted to share the way I am starting to think about this space: as my neighborhood. 

Also, I got to sample some Sesame Street, so that was pretty cool.

Shout out to Darren Kuropatwa, Ginger Lewman, and Rodd Lucier 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q1T6Y3Eh4

After some wonderful conversation within this community, specifically with Margaret Powers, Helen Blunden, Howard…

 

After some wonderful conversation within this community, specifically with Margaret Powers, Helen Blunden, Howard Rheingold, Jessica Swift, Rodd Lucier, and Sheri Edwards, I believe my understanding of PLNs has shifted from visualization of the entire network, to visualizing a smaller portion of it: The Neighborhood.

I would love to discuss the concept of introducing The People In Our Neighborhood to one another (in this community, in video, in blog posts). I think that it is inherently more easily understood as a construct than “weak ties” or curation workflows. It is the people in my neighborhood (NOT network) challenge me to be a better teacher and learner, but it takes the entire network in order to find the neighborhood I want to live in. If that doesn’t make sense just yet, here is the video that I am using to think it through with you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q1T6Y3Eh4

From Network to Neighborhood: A New Definition for PLNs

I get to think through PLNs in a new way. Instead of being nodes in a network, I would encourage us to be people in a neighborhood. And rather than demonstrating the far reaches of our network, we should be introducing one another to the “locals”. Those that push us and help us create change. In this video I introduce you to three people in my neighborhood. Special thanks goes to the #etmooc community for helping me to craft this idea and for asking the right questions.

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

Would you consider introducing them to the rest of your “network”?

Darren Kuropatwa: http://www.youtube.com/user/dtkuropatwa

Ginger Lewman: http://www.youtube.com/user/GingerTPLC

Rodd Lucier: http://www.youtube.com/user/roddlucier

The Google+ Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116395158372553895482

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Darren Kuropatwa mentioned that you are doing some vlogging this year.

 

Darren Kuropatwa mentioned that you are doing some vlogging this year. I am super excited to check it out and start reflecting with you. As it turns out, I am cultivating a community of folks who are doing vlogging in 2013 so that we can collaborate with one another and react through video. 

If that is something that interests you, I would love to have you join in (as a lurker or participant). Talk to you soon!

Darren Kuropatwa mentioned that you are doing some vlogging this year. I am super excited to check it out and start…

Darren Kuropatwa mentioned that you are doing some vlogging this year. I am super excited to check it out and start reflecting with you. As it turns out, I am cultivating a community of folks who are doing vlogging in 2013 so that we can collaborate with one another and react through video. 

If that is something that interests you, I would love to have you join in (as a lurker or participant). Talk to you soon!

I can’t believe that I didn’t know you were doing a walking Vlog until today.

 

I can’t believe that I didn’t know you were doing a walking Vlog until today.

I have now watched about a dozen of them and I can’t wait to start commenting and doing video responses to your stuff! I wanted to let you know that I am cultivating a community of Reflective Practice Vloggers that are doing exactly what you are doing, but instead of sending it out into the void, we are actively commenting and shifting one another’s thinking.

I hope you will join us. I am so excited to see your face and hear your ideas on a regular basis. Talk to you soon.