Sorry I couldn’t be at the LEARN-CEFRIO meeting last week but
I was surfing the web yesterday and found a great wiki put up by Sue Waters.  Click on her name and it will take you to her wiki. She does the Edublog blog.  I have an Edublog blog – http://teacher102.edublogs.org/ and am very happy with it.  Sue has given me a lot of support.

The wiki gives ideas and suggestions on how to develop a pln (personal learning network).  She says that it is all about using web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, twitter, and facebook to connect to others which extends our learning and helps us learn together as part of a global network.  She suggests 5 top tools to start using to start building your own pln.

* Set up a twitter account

*Start your own blog

*Subscribe to blogs and read them

*Start using a Social Bookmarking tool

*Join a Ning community

Go to her wiki and check it out. On the left sidebar you can click on how to open a twitter account, How to start a blog, how to subscribe to a blog, Social bookmarking tools and how to join a Ning community.

I joined Ning last Spring. I am a member of Classroom 2.0 and have made some connections there. At the end of last year we were learning about butterflies and I connected with a classroom in Portland, Oregon. We did a skype call with them that was very exciting. I recently set up a twitter account and am learning about that. I love having a blog and sharing what we do in my classroom with the global community. It is fun to get comments from all over the place. Reading other peoples blogs is great. I have learned so much. I have asked people for help on how to do things and I’ve helped people, too. I am excited about the global connections that I am beginning to make.

Another wiki that Sue has it about blogging. Check this one out , too.

Here are her sites:
The Edublogger
PLN wiki
her personal blog

She also has a podcast blog called Mobile Technology in TAFE

If you need any support or help let me know.
by Mary Ellen Lynch

Our school motto at Grosse Ile School, TEAM, says a lot and I think we can certainly use it to illustrate what we hope for through our CEFRIO-LEARN project.  As I looked around the room and listened to many things at our meeting this week, it was clear what a great team we are making together in all the collaborating we are doing. I say to everyone keep up the great work and lets keep on collaborating – we make a great team! I’m already looking forward to the next meeting day!

Donna Anderson

It’s been a busy and productive day.  It was great to finally put a face to email addresses and names.  Dana, Shelley and I had a great time planning our upcoming book blog wiki project.  Although we finished with questions still unanswered, we’re one step further in our collaboration journey.  Now that we’ve met each other we’re looking forward to our students ‘meeting’ through websites and Live Classroom.  Keep your eyes open on the LEARNConnect wiki for further updates.

Best of luck in your collaboration journeys.  Travel safely and take care.

Shelley L., Dana, Shelley O

We are both Grade 5 teachers in the ETSB  and want to have our students share their vision of their school community. They will, hopefully, do this through photo essays that they will help each other build on a common wikispace. So far we have planned to have our students brainstorm questions that they would have about the other school (A.D.S or S.E.S.). The students can use photos and text and/or voice-thread to answer the questions and tell the story of the photo. We are also looking at using this project as a submission for our classes in the School Board Arts Festival competition called “Show your Talent”.

That’s it so far. We can collaborate on the wiki as well as through chat on our school board portal and on our days that the school board can give us for the CEFRIO project.

Cathy Watson

Jennifer Palik