The Value of Experienced Voices

By: Dean Shareski
One of the great ideas of PLP is the use of experienced voices. These are people who have established a clear online presence and have spent considerable time connecting and sharing in much the same ways as the we hope the participants of PLP will aspire to.
In the Ontario-Lower Hudson cohort Ira Socol, [...]

What’s Your Story?

By Dean Shareski
One of my favourite lines from the Cisco video “The Human Network” is
Welcome to world where people subscribe to people, not magazines.
There so much about the sentence that rings true everyday for me. The ability we have to connect with each other, not simply as learners but as humans is what is so [...]

As Confidence Builds

by Robin Ellis
One of the challenges of my position in the district where I work has been how to “teach” others about social networking, how do you convey the benefits of virtual personal learning communities / networks, in a 3 hour workshop? How do you cover all the options, explore all the tools available to [...]

Expert Voices

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
I am happily paddling, running in and out with the discussion waves, splashing a bit in the groups, occasionally sticking my head under and blowing a few small blogging bubbles. Feeling I can’t yet go too long with out taking a breath to edit and definitely still need my Google goggles, although am [...]