seminar
Moodle/elearning expert: Personal Learning Network for Educators
Being an
educator in the 21st century comes with its own challenges:
• technology
that is constantly changing (Moodle, iPhones, iPads),
• information
that lives online and is growing at an exponential rate,
• and new
pedagogies that accompany these developments (connectivism, networked
learning).
Building a
personal learning network can be the most sane thing you do as a 21st century
educator, whether you’re a teacher, librarian, manager or education
technologist. With the use of video
excerpts, we examine the building blocks of a typical educator’s PLN. Which tools do they use? How does a PLN
work? Why is this effective for their personal learning? How does it affect
their practice?
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<p><span>Joyce
Seitzinger is an education technologist who has worked on online learning
projects since 1999. After completing a Bachelors Degree in Celtic Studies, one
of her first jobs was in e-learning and she’s had a passion for education
technology ever since. With a Master of Education Technology from USQ, her
special interests are Moodle, personal learning networks & networked
learning, instructional design and staff development for e-learning. She’s best
known in the Moodle Community for developing the Moodle Tool Guide for
Teachers. She’s spoken about personal learning networks for teachers at the
inaugural PLE Conference in Barcelona and at the Converge10 conference in
Melbourne.</span></p>
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<p><span>Joyce is
Dutch but moved to New Zealand to work as e-learning advisor in tertiary
education, currently at the Eastern Institute of Technology in the Hawke’s Bay.</span></p>