Come learn all about Personal Learning Networks and how they can help you stay current with any interest.  We will discuss Google Reader, Delicious, and Ning.

Find a Social Network to Participate In

• ProGrowing Other Social Options - A great list of a ton of different sites arranged by categories like books, friends, hobbies/interests, music, etc. http://progrowing.wikispaces.com/Other+Social+Options
• Social Networks in Ed A listing of social networks used in educational environments or for educational purposes. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category and within categories). http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/
• Conversations.net "The Web is About Conversations. Find Yours." http://conversations.net/

Social Networking Tools 

google reader

http://google.com/reader

• Getting Started guide: http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=113517 
• My Google Reader wiki page: Google Reader

iGoogle

http://www.google.com/ig

• iGoogle: A Mini Product Tour Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbf0dlESX8E 

pageflakes

http://www.pageflakes.com/

• Example: http://www.pageflakes.com/shirtz/25235018 

del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us

• What is delicious and why do I want to use it? http://delicious.com/help/getStarted
• Delicious on Atomic Learning: http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/delicious (you will need to login let us know if you need the password and username) 

ning

http://www.ning.com/

• Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/
• eLearning for Life (Qatar Academy) http://elearning4life.ning.com/
• Ning in Education http://education.ning.com/ 

podcasts/vodcasts (I usually use iTunes for this although sometimes I use my Google Reader)

History Hints - http://www2.ccboe.com/publicinfo/historyhints.cfm

Science Friday - http://www.sciencefriday.com/

iTunes University -  http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html

Ted Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading

http://www.ted.com/

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

FORA.tv

http://fora.tv/

FORA.tv is the leading interactive viewing experience of the smartest, most entertaining video content in the world. —The world of ideas and knowledge—all drawn from the live-event speeches, discussions, interviews and debates going on everywhere all the time at the world’s leading conferences, ideas festivals, think tanks and other major centers of thought and discourse.

Authors@Google

http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html

The Authors@Google program brings authors of all stripes to Google for informal talks centering on their recently published books. Through the program, we invite authors to our Mountain View headquarters as well as our New York, Santa Monica, Cambridge, Ann Arbor, and other offices, where Googlers are treated to readings of everything from serious literature and political analysis to pioneering science fiction and moving personal memoirs; past participants have ranged from novelist Salman Rushdie and economist Jeffrey Sachs to journalist Bob Woodward and U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. When possible, we share these remarkable conversations with the world outside the Googleplex through our YouTube channel.

Starting Poll

Vizu Poll

Glogster Page

http://katiec.glogster.com/PLN

Great Website with How Tos to create your own PLN http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/