Creating Your Personal Learning Environment using Emerging Technologies

Monday, November 8, 2010 ILCCO Fall Webinar Series

Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

A system that helps a learner take control of and manage their own

learning.

Personal Learning Network(PLN)

The group of other individuals that you share

ideas, information and resources related to your

profession or a specific topic.

Gather Resources Use your PLN to help you review

and filter resources. ▫Twitter▫Social-Networks

Linked-in Facebook Ning

▫Forums▫Blogs▫Websites▫Online/ Virtual Events

Visit Learning Center

Profile/ Resume Skills Groups Connections

(grow your PLN)

Ask Question, Get Answers/ Give Answers

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlUwwgOfKw

Professional Fan Pages Event Invites

http://www.facebook.com/

Many Professional

Groups, Companies and

Experts have FB Fan

Pages!

Facebook Pages Directory

Join professional social networks

http://www.ning.com/

Forums Online discussion forums are a great

place to get questions answered, discover resources and network with new people. ▫Just about any online software or service

you use will have a forum. ▫Many of the social networks include a

discussion forum, utilize them.

Blogs Many Experts, Authors, Companies,

Organizations and the list goes on and on… ▫Great place to get up-to-date information, how-to,

what is new, what is good, reviews, resources

Find other

great expert

blogs by

looking at

the “blog

roll” of the

blogs you

already read.

Online/ Virtual Events There are always free virtual events and

webinars going on.

Organize RSS is the key to organizing

your resources.▫Social Bookmarking

Delicious, Diigo, Stumbleupon, Edtags

▫Customizable web pages iGoogle, Netvibes

▫Online Note-Taking Evernote, Google Docs

Create an account

Bookmark sites Organize them

by tags and bundles

Share tags, bundles or a single bookmark with others

http://www.delicious.com/

My most recent

bookmarks.Others that have bookmarked this

url

My tag (s) for this url

All of My tags

iGooglewww.google.com/ig

http://www.evernote.com/

Create multiple

notebooks.

Capture text, urls, images,

audio

Use it online, use it as desktop app, use it with mobile devices

http://docs.google.com/

Utilize Twitter and Social Bookmarking –

share resources, keep notes▫Social bookmarking organize and

access via search Blogging Wiki Create and Build Take advantage of tools to make

your resources more useful.

Access multiple social media accounts at once

Post to multiple accounts Search for specific hastags Works on several devices, desktop, phones,

pdas

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Desktop Application

Where I post – shortens urls automatically

I can watch or post to multiple accounts

Stream of posts from

accounts I’m watching

I can have a column

watching posts on a specific

hashtag

Bookmark sites by clicking button in toolbar

Click button to bring up tags and search in left panel

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615/

Present Blog

▫www.blogger.com/, http://wordpress.com/, http://edublogs.org/  

Wiki▫http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/,

http://www.wikispaces.com/, http://pbworks.com/ Online Presentation Tools

▫http://www.authorstream.com/, http://www.slideshare.net/, http://www.voicethread.com/, http://www.prezi.com/

Creating Your Personal Learning Environment using Emerging Technologies

Monday, November 8, 2010 ILCCO Fall Webinar Seriesbthatcher@icc.edu twitter: bthat My PLE Resources: http://www.netvibes.com/bthat