In this enchantingly mundane preso, veteran blogger Miguel Guhlin shares his meteoric rise to rock star status as a blogger, confesses his blogging addiction, time spent in rehab and offers a retrospective look at blogging as therapeutic nonsense worth tracking and sharing. You will come away with tips and suggestions for tweaking your digital footprint as you build a worldwide following of peers passionate to participate in YOUR professional learning network (PLN).

1. Passionate to Participate:
Plan Your PLN
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(a.k.a. Rock, er, I mean, Blog Your World!)
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Edutopia’s Edublogs We Love: Ten Top Stops for Internet Interaction
These Web sites are the cornerstones of a vast online educational community.
Source: James Daly, Editor-in-Chief, Edutopia, www.edutopia.org
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Autographs after this session ONLY.
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4. Where’s Miguel Guhlin?
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• mguhlin.org
• mguhlin.net
• moodlemayhem.org
• Texas4TEE.net
Connect with “mguhlin” on any or all of
elearning platforms and/or media tools:
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5. BRAIN = Brilliant Resources
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At Instant’s Notice
Source: Dan Rezac, Adventures in EdTech
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“This group of educators I engage with every day are a living,
organic, knowledge base. They are real people with real
experiences, and a wealth of knowledge. When I reference
my network of educators I call them my ‘brain trust.’"
BRAIN = Brilliant Resources At Instant Notice
Source: Dan Rezac, Adventures in EdTech
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7. Sunday, June 3, 12
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8. Social Networking Tools Blog (share your address)
(e.g. Facebook, Twitter)
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All?
Wiki (share your address) Photo Sharing?
Source: http://goo.gl/Z3ExQ
Where is your virtual space?
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9. No matter what tools you use to connect,
you are the message you send.
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How do you go deep?
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Tips and
suggestions will
appear in orange.
More details on
each tip appear
later in the preso.
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why blog?
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4 reasons for blogging
and
6 technical tips for bloggers
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12. 1) Writing flows from a moment
captured by the voyager; I am he.
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Selfhood derives from the sense
that one can initiate and carry out
activities on one’s own.
Even the simplest narratives are built
around an agent-self as a protagonist.
Any system of education or theory of
pedagogy that diminishes the school’s
role in nurturing its pupils’ self-esteem
fails at one of its primary functions.
Personhood implicates narrative.
--Jerome Bruner
“Every experience in our lives is worth writing about.”
- Nanci Atwell, In the Middle
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13. “Every experience in our lives is worth
writing about.”
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- Nanci Atwell, In the Middle
Please share in the chat ONE SENTENCE or PHRASE
that sums up an experience in your professional work that
is worth writing about.
Tip #1 - If you’re not a writer, be a podcaster or
vidcaster. (we’ll explore this in more detail in a moment)
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14. 2) I blog to transform my experiences.
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The act of creation embodied in this blog, in everything I write, are powerful
antidotes to the poison I encounter in the wilderness of despair, of fear, and
hypocrisy. Blogging allows me to transform them, like the dragon in one of my
favorite stories, St. George and the Dragon and The Quest for the Holy Grail
by Edward Hays (http://goo.gl/YX7UB)..
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15. How do you transform your negative experiences in
ways that empower you to share your insights with
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others?
Tip #2 - Start with another’s experience, book quote,
blog entry, series of tweets, and then make a
connection between your experience and their’s.
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16. 3) Dare to contribute for you are
beautiful as well.
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Tip #3 - Build your
virtual nest using
free or hosted web
services. Blogger,
Posterous and
Tumblr are places to
start.
Source: http://goo.gl/KDZ9W
Source: http://goo.gl/DdGkf
When I write, you'll find I'm in the story. When I see something, such as a
technical problem, I am any one of the following: 1) An ignorant newbie to linux
writing about how he solved a problem, recording it for the future so I won't
forget what I've learned along the way; 2) A bridge-builder who labors for those
who come behind him; 3) A peacock who faces anger with truth; 4) A turkey who
cannot control its temper.
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17. 4) Tell the truth when you write.
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Bloggers must wrestle with their ideas, their emotions,
the world around them and bring order to it. We need to
speak to that struggle, tell when we fail, when we
succeed...and find how to best share failures.
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Want to connect with others?
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the read/write
web is a massive
playground of
information bits
that are shared,
remixed openly
into a fluid and
participatory
tapestry.
Source: http://goo.gl/hq2QG --Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams,
Wikinomics
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20. 6 Technical Tips to Blogging Success
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Tip #1 - Write or speak
Tip #2 - Make connections
Tip #3 - Build your virtual
space
Tip #4 - Robot-size with
RSS
Source: http://goo.gl/KDZ9W
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Tip #5 - Divert the flow
Source: http://goo.gl/yDMTx Tip #6 - Play with Stats
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21. Tip #1 - Write OR Speak.
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If you’re not a writer, be a podcaster or vidcaster.
bit.ly/podcastpizzazz
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Source: http://goo.gl/DdGkf
http://goo.gl/RVvjw
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22. Tip #2 - Make Connections
Start with another’s experience, book quotes, blog
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entry, series of tweets, and make a connection.
http://diigo.com http://evernote.com
.com
http://www.diigo
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http://livebinder.com
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23. Tip #2 - Make Connections
Start with another’s experience, book quotes, blog
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entry, series of tweets, and make a connection.
Need a quick
Professional Learning
Network? Start with
mine....
EdTech Bloggers
http://bit.ly/mgedtechfeed
Moodle Bloggers
Source: http://goo.gl/KDZ9W
Source: http://goo.gl/DdGkf http://bit.ly/mgmoodlefeed
GoogleApps for Ed Bloggers
http://bit.ly/mggctfeed
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24. Tip #3 - Build Your Virtual Space
Build your virtual spaces using free web services.
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25. Tip #4 - “Robot-size” with RSS
Use Real Simple Syndication (RSS) to spread the
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word (or your content).
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Tip #5 - “Divert the Flow
Take advantage of social networking/media tools to
help others see your work.
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Tip #5 - “Divert the Flow
Take advantage of social networking/media tools to
help others see your work.
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Tip #6 - Play with Stats.
Track your visitors and “hits.”
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29. Statcounter.com
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Tip #6 - Play with Stats.
Track your visitors and “hits.”
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Links:
http://clustrmaps.com
Some alternatives: http://goo.gl/dBImA
Tip #6 - Play with Stats.
Track your visitors and “hits.”
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Tip #6 - Play with Stats.
Track your visitors and “hits.”
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What will it take for you to
share what you’re
learning, while you’re
learning it, with others?
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more importantly...
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...what will it take for you
and your peers to model
how to learn and share
with your students, then
help them do the same?
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35. See you online!
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• mguhlin.org
• mguhlin.net
• moodlemayhem.org
• Texas4TEE.net
Connect with “mguhlin” on any or all of
elearning platforms and/or media tools:
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