If You PLEs ... You'll Thank Me Later - Advance Your Career, Grow Your Business, and Expand Your Learning Options through Mastery of Personal Learning Environments
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This presentation is from the 2014 USDLA National Conference. In today's rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever that each of us becomes a life-long learner and that we help the learners we work with to follow that path. While some environments still provide active professional development plans, others do not. If an environment does provide an active professional development plan, too often it will focus on keeping skills needed for your current position up-to-date rather than increasing or enhancing your skills to expand your future opportunities. This issue is compounded in the many environments where active development plans are not offered; therefore, much of the development falls to you. One way to prepare yourself for whatever comes your way is by developing and nurturing your own Personal Learning Environment (PLE). While the definition of a PLE may not be firmly established, at this point the focus is learner-centric and it provides ways for the learners to control and manage their own learning. A PLE is comprised of all of the tools, processes (formal and informal), and methods that individual learners use to expand their knowledge, skills and competencies. This would include, among other things, Web 2.0 applications, LMS, books, and people they connect with personally or professionally.
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- 1. If You PLEs … You’ll Thank Me Later @valarywithawhy #usdlaPLE valaryo@gmail.com about.me/valary
- 5. Image created with http://www.tagxedo.com/ Cloud content from http://learnrinserepeat.tumblr.com Learn, Rinse, Repeat: Where the learning never stops
- 6. http://bit.ly/1jCs0R0 Steve Wheeler’s diagram from Learning with 'e's
- 7. http://bit.ly/1k7gn7N Dr. Mark Bilandzic’s diagram …
- 12. http://www.kiostark.com/dont-go-back-to-school/ “many more ways to learn outside of school than within”
- 13. YOUR PLE IS AN ALTERNATE ROUTE
- 15. YOUR PLE KEEPS YOU RELEVANT
- 16. Median tenure of U.S. employees is 4.4 Years http://bit.ly/1iZ2yIw
- 17. Image from http://bit.ly/RMxcvr “… knowledge is like milk. It has a shelf life … *if you don't replace it+ … your career is going to turn sour fast." Louis Ross, Ford Motor Company
- 18. YOUR PLE IS A FILTER
- 20. TAKE A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR PLE
- 21. What is in my current PLE? Formal / Informal Consumer / Producer Digital / Analog Personal / Professional
- 22. What is in my current PLE? Formal / Informal Consumer / Producer Digital / Analog Personal / Professional Process of developing your PLE Curate | Contemplate | Contribute Formal Learning + Work LMS + UMBC + MOOCs (also informal) Social Media + Google+ + Facebook + Twitter – hashtags – microblog – backchannel – join chats + Tumblr + LinkedIn – professional profiles – join groups – ask/answer questions Me Digital Content + Blogs – comment – add value – start conversations + Webinars + Safari online + Kindle reader + Google reader – aggregator – tag posts In Person + Friends/Family + Work Colleagues + Conferences
- 23. Process of developing your PLE Curate | Contemplate | Contribute
- 24. “… my PLE has become my lifeline. I placed the learners … where the heart is because they are why I do what I do!” http://bit.ly/1jCtBWU Nona Barker’s PLE
- 25. DEVELOP YOUR PLE
- 26. #1 TAKE 5 … BLOGS THAT IS
- 28. http://www.usergeneratedlearning.com/ “I routinely declare ‘Google Reader bankruptcy’ (aka marking all my posts as read and just starting over) to easy my anxiety!”
- 29. #2 GET ALL A-TWITTER
- 32. #3 BUILD A BRIDGE
- 33. http://www.thenewsociallearning.com/ “Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.”
- 35. #4 SHARING IS CARING
- 36. “Blog, blog, blog, blog, b log …”
- 38. “I write to discover what I know.” Flannery O’Connor Image from http://bit.ly/1f53JqT
- 39. #5 ADD TO YOUR TOOLBOX
- 40. Jane Hart’s 10 Tool Challenge 1.Bitly 2.Scoop.it 3.Scribd 4.Voicethread 5.Tagboard 6.Haiku Deck 7.FeedReader 8.Picmonkey 9.Degreed 10.Tapestry
- 41. #6 TRY SOMETHING NEW
- 43. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki http://bit.ly/1rmSWsa
- 45. Review content Reflect and writeComment on posts Respond to comments Share a link Got an hour? Get online
- 46. ❑ 2 retweets ❑ 2 new tweets ❑ 1 tweet about you or your business ❑ 3 replies to new people ❑ 3 replies to people you already know ❑ Give thanks Workout from http://bit.ly/1f53VGQ Image from http://bit.ly/1nHcbMC Daily Twitter Workout
- 48. If You PLEs … You’ll Thank Me Later @valarywithawhy #usdlaPLE valaryo@gmail.com about.me/valary Slides Handouts
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