The document discusses personal learning landscapes (PLEs) and how individuals can create their own using various web 2.0 tools. It encourages the reader to think about the "dots" or aspects that make up their social capital and landscape. It then provides examples of tools like blogs, wikis, podcasts, and eportfolios that can be used to connect these dots and create a portable, shareable and personalized PLE. Finally, it gives steps to get started making a PLE using specific tools like Protopage and Wetpaint.

1. Join the dots: paint your own personal learning landscape - a way to make sense of your social capital -

2. My social capital Activist educator Veteran Bridge builder Mentor Coach Teacher Mother Partner Daughter Sister Neighbour Citizen colleague friend Is this the sum of me?

3. These are the dots … What are the dots in your landscape? Family Calendars Stories, photos and podcasts Virtual Offices Blogs and Wikis ePortfolios Projects Networks My connections

4. What are Personal Learning Landscapes? What do they do? Why do we need them? How can I paint one? What tools do I need? Blogs, wikis, podcasts, photo spaces, internet telephone, virtual classrooms, chat forums, collaboration spaces and eportfolios.

5. … polling questions … Do you have your own PLE? Do you publish your own blog? Have you created a wiki? Can you use podcast tools?

6. Why do I need a PLE? Chaos Theory Websites: Macro Dimensions LearnScope Digital Storytelling Calendars personal (Planzo) Training (Trumba) Email Personal Business TAFE DST Network Blogger Wikispaces Wetpaint Moodle sites Study Zone Game Talk Moodle forums Elgg pageflakes YouTube Bubbleshare Flickr TAFE VC WebCT Elluminate Skype Upload and store Publish and display Notify and deliver Communicate

7. Bookmarks no longer efficient? … I need something more …

9. How do I use PLE’s? Portable bookmarks Shareable schedules Links to published artefacts and articles Links to reflective practice for projects Personalised embedded website Connections to everything

10. Let’s create a Protopage http://www.protopage.com – sending How to Protopage file

11. What do Personal Learning Landscapes look like? What Web 2.0 tools are available? What do we put in them? What links do we include?

12. Let’s create a Wiki http://www.wetpaint.com Sending a How to Wetpaint file.

13. Let’s create an eportfolio

14. Let’s add links to your protopage Open your new protopage Add a widget for bookmarks Edit the widget Add links to your wiki and eportfolio Move the widget on page Make the page visible

15. Places about PLE’s you should visit http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/09/12/the-wales-wide-web-personal-learning-environments-live-at-edinburgh/ This is Graham Atwell’s screencast from his presentation in Wales in 2006 Well worth a look and listen

16. References Article: Personal Learning Environments June 1, 2006 by Graham Attwell. http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/6521819364 Professor Ali Jafari: Diagram of the “Jafari Model” Next Generation E-Learning Environment http://fm.schmoller.net/2006/09/learning_enviro.html link to article where diagram is used.

17. … now I am connected … Coach Carole at: http://www.protopage.com/coach_carole