This document provides an overview of tools and resources for creating a personal learning environment (PLE). It defines a PLE as the individual tools, communities, and services used to direct one's own learning. The document then outlines various resources for training, reading, connecting, and using library content. It also describes different tools for collecting, consuming, engaging with, and automating content to support a PLE. These include tools like Instapaper, Twitter, and IFTTT. The goal is to provide staff with guidance on curating their own PLE to support ongoing professional development.

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Heidi Steiner Burkhardt
Head of Digital Services, Kreitzberg Library
Norwich Staff In Service Day
January 7, 2015
Tools and Tips for Creating a Personal
Learning Environment
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be
learning

2. What is a PLE?
The term personal learning environment (PLE)
describes the tools, communities, and services
that constitute the individual educational
platforms learners use to direct their own
learning and pursue educational goals.
EDUCAUSE (2009) https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7049.pdf
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3. Staff Professional Development Guide
http://guides.norwich.edu/staffprodev

4. Goals for Today
Resources
• Training & Learning
• Reading
• Connecting
• Library Content &
Services
Tools
• Collecting
• Consuming
• Engaging
• Automating

5. Resources

6. Training & Learning

7. Microsoft Office Training
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/

8. EDUCAUSE Live!
http://www.educause.edu/conferences-events/online-events/educause-live-webinars

9. O’Reilly Webcasts
http://www.oreilly.com/webcasts/

10. WebEx Channels
http://www.webex.com/webinars/

11. TED Talks
http://www.ted.com/

12. Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/

13. CodeAcademy
http://www.codecademy.com/

14. Udacity
https://www.udacity.com/

15. Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/

16. edX
https://www.edx.org/

18. Reading

19. Higher Education News
Chronicle of Higher Education
Web version has limited free content. The Library's online access is through one
month ago and we also maintain a print subscription.
http://chronicle.com/ or via Library website
Inside Higher Ed
News and views on many areas of higher education.
http://www.insidehighered.com/
EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is valuable specifically for technology in higher education. Well known
for their 7 Things reports, annual Horizon report and more.
http://www.educause.edu/

20. Reading in Your Field
Heidi’s Reading List
State, National and World News
General Library News
Technology
General Business
Higher Education
Design and User Experience
Library Technology, Academic Libraries
Food!

21. Reading in Your Field
Heidi’s Reading List
State, National and World News
General Library News
Technology
General Business
Higher Education
Design and User Experience
Library Technology, Academic Libraries
Food!
What about
you?

22. Connecting

23. Structured
Professional
Organizations and
Associations

24. Unstructured
Social Networks

25. Library
Content
and
Services

26. Online Library Resources
http://norwich.on.worldcat.org/atoztitles/#journal

27. Online Library Resources
http://guides.norwich.edu/az.php

28. Personal Development Databases

29. Personal Development Databases

30. Personal Development Databases

31. Personal Development Databases

32. Services
Borrowing Materials
Request Materials from other Libraries
through Interlibrary Loan
Help from Librarians

34. Tools

35. Collecting

36. Instapaper
https://www.instapaper.com/

37. Pocket
https://getpocket.com/

38. Diigo
https://www.diigo.com/

39. Evernote
https://evernote.com/

40. Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/

41. Zotero
https://www.zotero.org/

42. Consuming

43. Feedly
http://feedly.com/

44. Digg Reader
http://digg.com/reader

45. NewsBlur
https://newsblur.com/

46. Flipboard
https://about.flipboard.com/

47. Engaging

48. Twitter
https://twitter.com/

49. LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com

50. SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/

51. Automating!

52. IFTTT
https://ifttt.com

53. Zapier
https://zapier.com/

55. Image Credits
1. PhotoBookGirl Chalkboard Freebie #2 More Chalk by PhotoBookGirl CC BY-NC
6. Apple by YO$HIMI CC BY
17, 33, 54. Think by Sam Howzit CC-BY
18. Danbo Reading… by Daneil Go CC BY-NC
22. Iron link by Andreas Levers CC BY-NC
35. finding balance by woodleywonderworks CC BY
42. I <3 2 read by Kate Ter Haar CC BY
47. Graphic Conversation by Marc Wathieu CC BY-NC
51. cup of robots ` on white by hobvious sudoneighm CC BY
56. Unsure Of The Next Step by eviloars CC BY-NC
57. thanks in purple by artnoose CC BY-NC-SA
Find Staff Professional
Development Resources guide
http://guides.norwich.edu/staffprodev

57. Heidi Steiner Burkhardt
hsteiner@norwich.edu, x2171
@heidi_sb