{"id":1130,"date":"2014-08-11T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2014-08-11T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:27:19","slug":"introducing-kristina-and-her-personal-learning-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2014\/08\/11\/introducing-kristina-and-her-personal-learning-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Kristina and her personal learning network"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent blog post<\/a>\u00a0marking the 25th anniversary of the Web, Jane Hart, founder of the\u00a0Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies<\/a>, observed that our social networks\u00a0built on things like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or\u00a0Google+ have become part of our professional lives as they let\u00a0us make global connections with other like-minded individuals. This\u00a0professional network, she says, becomes a Personal Learning Network (PLN).<\/em><\/p>\n

In another post<\/a> she notes\u00a0that\u00a0this kind of social learning\u00a0often happens\u00a0below the radar of ICT\u00a0and learning & development departments \u00a0This is partly\u00a0because access to public social media may be\u00a0blocked\u00a0(for example see previous post about Yammer<\/a>)\u00a0and partly\u00a0because people tend not to like the\u00a0way\u00a0enterprise-wide social initiatives\u00a0prescribe which\u00a0tools they must\u00a0use for\u00a0sharing and collaborating. Neither do they like their\u00a0activities being\u00a0tracked and scrutinised by others,\u00a0who may\u00a0have\u00a0no idea what it means to be social.<\/p>\n

As a result, many in the workforce are not exploiting the enormous potential of PLNs to support continuous learning and development, which most would agree is fundamental requirement for the 21st century worker.<\/p>\n

\"Malcolm<\/a>

Malcolm Wright and Alison Petch announce the Kirstina animation<\/p><\/div>\n

So we at IRISS<\/a> were very pleased to collaborate with colleagues in NHS Education for Scotland<\/a> to create Kristina, a model of how someone working in health and social care can create and benefit from a personal learning network.<\/p>\n

Today Kristina makes her debut in this\u00a0short animation<\/a> showing\u00a0how easy she found it to get started.\u00a0 You can do it too.<\/p>\n

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Malcolm Wright, NES Chief Executive, talks about the social use of knowledge:<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/files\/2014\/08\/Malcolm-Wright-PLN-080429-0002014-08-01.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Alison Petch, IRISS Director, explains why we created Kristina:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/files\/2014\/08\/Alison-Petch-PLN-080429-001-2014-08-01.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent blog post\u00a0marking the 25th anniversary of the Web, Jane Hart, founder of the\u00a0Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, observed that our social networks\u00a0built on things like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or\u00a0Google+ have become part of our professional lives as they let\u00a0us make global connections with other like-minded individuals. This\u00a0professional network, she says, becomes… Read More »Introducing Kristina and her personal learning network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}