Document/ Handout for Creating your Personal Learning Environment for online webinar

1. Creating Your
Personal Learning
Environment using
Emerging Technologies
Monday, November 8, 2010
ILCCO Fall Webinar Series

2. Personal Learning Environment
(PLE)
A system that helps a learner
take control of and manage
their own learning.

3. Personal Learning Network
(PLN)
The group of other individuals
that you share ideas,
information and resources
related to your profession
or a specific topic.

4. 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

5.  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

6.  Professional Fan Pages
 Event Invites
http://www.facebook.com/
Many Professional Groups,
Companies and Experts have
FB Fan Pages!
Facebook Pages Directory

7.  Join professional
social networks
http://www.ning.com/

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Online/ Virtual Events
 There are always free virtual events and
webinars going on.

11. 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

12.  Create an account
 Bookmark sites
 Organize them by
tags and bundles
 Share tags,
bundles or a single
bookmark with
others
http://www.delicious.com/

13. My most recent
bookmarks.
Others that have
bookmarked this
url
My tag (s) for this
url
All of My tags

14. iGoogle
www.google.com/ig

15. 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

16. http://docs.google.com/

17. 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.

18.  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/

19. 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

20.  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/

21. 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/

22. Creating Your
Personal Learning
Environment using
Emerging Technologies
Monday, November 8, 2010
ILCCO Fall Webinar Series
bthatcher@icc.edu
twitter: bthat
My PLE Resources:
http://www.netvibes.com/bthat