Disrupt+the+Old+Discourse

**Disrupt the Old Discourse: Leveraging a Faculty's Personal Learning Communities**
Research shows that interest in collaborating in Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) is on the rise. Take home concrete ideas that can help you disrupt the usual discourse about education by collaborating online with experts and thinkers in your field. This introduction will continue online through the NAIS AC Online Community after the conference. //PRESENTERS: Larry Kahn, The Kinkaid School (TX); Chris Bigenho, Greenhill School (TX); Susan Davis, The Chinquapin School (TX)//

//If your network is John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and whoever else you want to throw in there...your network is pretty darned good. But if your network isn't like that, you might want to throw a wider net...//

This session will be followed up with two one-hour workshops online for interested participants. The online component will address:
 * how to build a PLN
 * tips for sustaining learning communities
 * strategies for changing the conversation about teaching and learning



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[] NAIS Annual Conference 2011 Community: [|"Join Us for the Online Session: Disrupting the Discourse"] [|"How to Create a Twitter Account"](Youtube tutorial) 1. Welcome, learning our way around wiziq, introductions 2. What are you curious about regarding twitter? What are you concerned about? 3. Embracing the tool and learning its features. 3. Building a network. [].
 * Online Session 1: All Things Twitter**
 * March 3, 2011, 8-9 EST**

**1. Introduction** -- Susan Who are we? Why we need to amplify the voices of the change agents. Shift: Now we are responsible for navigating, constructing, and creating our own learning. //**2. The case for PLNs:**  definition of terms, research -- Chris // //How teachers learn -- the traditional view. // What we are talking about: interactive learning, synchronous or asynchronous (not a lecture on youtube), broadening our base, diverse ideas and perspectives. //What’s different about the discourse in a PLN? What’s happening? What’s all the excitement about? // //**3. Disrupting the Old Discourse: Inside-out **  -- Larry // //Where the discourse stops (the closed door, the private classroom, the faculty room gossip vs. deep discussion of best practices) -- all or // //mostly in house, a few trusted colleagues when you can get to them. Maximizing the culture you have; importance of leadership to change the culture. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Old version: faculty not talking to each other; are teachers encouraged or doing it underground; ////<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">large schools where each classroom/department is isolated from the rest. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Developing in-house experts and using them to grow interest in other faculty; change results. // <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">**//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Disrupting the Old Discourse: Outside-in //** //--// Susan //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using new faculty to grow a PLN and a PLN to grow your new faculty. Creating community, learning from the best teachers, adding layers of learning through new tools (Ning, blogs, Twitter, etc.), unexpected pushback, learning to learn (and be transparent), patience and persistence. // <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**5. Online follow-up workshop** -- Chris // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dates: 3/3 and 3/10, 8-9 pm (Eastern) // <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**6. Questions and closure** -- Larry and team (5-10 mins.) //
 * Initial Presentation:**

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Online Workshop (2 one-hour workshops)** // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using wiziq, participants get to know one another and discuss their comfort level with online tools // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Share favorite resources (blogs, wikis, etc.) // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following blogs and managing feeds (RSS) // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blogging and commenting on blogs // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Review how Twitter works; build a Twitter feed // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More advanced: Sample #edchat format, Social Bookmarking (diigo) // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nings: ISENet, Classroom 2.0 // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Etiquette and adding meaningfully to the conversation // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing issues Issues and concerns // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategies for opening up discourse //

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Online Participants should set up the following: // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">twitter account // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">google account/google reader // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blog account, wordpress or blogger // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hashtags // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homework // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tag it with our session tag. 2nd session blogging, reflecting on tweets on their blogs, follow blogs using RSS. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start session by showing our tweetdeck screens. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Resources** //: <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Shelley Blake-Plock, "21 Things that Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020," //The Daily Riff,// //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] //

Shelley Blake-Plock,[| Teach Paperless][|"Why Teachers Should Blog"] (Nominated by Edublogger for "Most Influential Blog Post of 2010") Amulya Iyer, [|Misadventures of a First Year Teacher]
 * Blogging:**

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Siemens, "Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age." ////<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Siemens, "Connectivism Glossary." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[| http://www.connectivism.ca/__] // <span class="wiki_link_ext">Chart: What is Connectivism? (Compares and contrasts connectivism with other learning theories) <span class="wiki_link_ext">Stephen Downes, "Learning Is a Conversation" //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Konrad Glogowski's Blogging Session at NECC." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[| http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/konrad-glogowskis-blogging-session-at-necc/] // Thomas Baker, "Facebook as a Professional Learning Network (PLN) <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|http://profesorbaker.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/facebook-as-a-professional-learning-network-pln/__] // November Learning, "Popular Education Hashtags," <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">[|https://docs.google.com/a/chinquapin.org/document/d/1VelhMDERt4RxrX4rsF8aq8N2tma-gDme8fLpYMip4M0/edit?hl=en#]
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