EDUC+615+G-Professionalization

====**// “Professionalization” //** asks you to begin building your personal learning network (PLN) and identity as a technology-using educator. A digital personal learning network is how teachers present their skills, competencies, and accomplishments in online formats. It includes your digital teaching portfolio, the different ways you integrate technology into teaching, and how will you contribute to various educational communities. ====

==== Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli define a personal learning networks (PLN) as “the collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information. They are the group of people who contribute to your knowl- edge and understanding of topics in your field and beyond.” (www.nercomp.org/data/media/ PLNTraining_OutlineWIT.pdf) He explains, “Personal Learning Networks extend your learning through in- creased reflection, while enabling you to learn as part of a global community. That’s not to say that face-to-face learning isn’t important or valuable. It is. But so is the learning we can now do on the Web. And it’s the melding of the two that will shape our schools in the 21st century.” (http://weblogg- ed.com/tag/pln/ (Schwelik, Higgs-Horwell 2012). ====

=** Will Richardson on (PLN): **= =**[|Video]**= =[|TEDx Video]= =Blog= =Twitter= = = =**Rob Mancabelli on (PLN):**= =[|Video]= =Blog= =Twitter=
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==== Using a digital portal, you will be building a Digital Presence that will hold teaching artifacts tested, developed, and implemented in the course EDUC 615G-Integrating Technology with Instruction. Essentially, your (PLN) is your digital teaching personality designed and organized by you over the course of your teaching year in Teach Bridges to the Future (TB2F). ====

==== A digital portal (wiki, blog, webpage) can act as a showcase for a (PLN) that integrates computers and other digital and electronic resources into teaching and learning in K-12 schools. Keeping your TB2F course competencies in mind, the course instructors and fellow students will present digital artifacts (often digital tools like //Social Bookmarking/Delicious)// during 7-8 of our workshop meetings. You will be asked to explore each artifact/tool in the context of your teaching placement and coursework while leaving **//a digital footprint of that exploration inside your digital portal//**. ====

Here's an example of a footprint- If you like the social bookmarking tool "Delicious", you can add your delicious account artifact to your blog, wiki, or webpage.
====You will have the opportunity to present how you have developed your PLN and used Web 2.0, Social Media, and other web-based technology tools in your professional life. Your presentation will be created using a Web 2.0 tool of your choice. Your peers will comment on and evaluate your PLN Showcase, and you will comment on and evaluate four of your peers’ showcases (Utah Education Network 2012).====

==== This assignment is worth (30%) of your grade. The Evaluation or Due Date will be determined by the group. Plan to build, revise, edit, and expand your Digital Presence throughout the entire B2F school year. ====


 * =Personal Learning Network (PLN) Rubric:[[file:PLN_Rubric_2012.docx]]=