Week 4 Assignment: Personal Learning Environments
The concept of a personal learning environment may seem like a new term and process to you. But consider the many digital tools that are becomming available to you and the new world of interactive media and realize that these tools are now a part of your learning process. So why not figure out how you can organize everything into a developing environment that contains your learning processes, resources, links, weblogs, aggregators, etc. We will begin by exploring some simple environments called portals. You may have a MyYahoo or MyGoogle account already which is a portal type of product. Take a look at netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/) for a peek at a little more sophisticated style of portal. We will work with this one in class as a way of getting an understanding of how a PLE may be a good process/product for you to begin to develop for your needs.
Questions for the week:
1. Given the descriptions of what a PLE may look like in the article by Graham Attwel, describe your thoughts about how this type of process might benefit your learning productivity. There is no right or wrong answer here, but sharing your thoughts and reading others thoughts may bring some inspiration to all of us. Dig a little and see if you can define what components you might want to include in a PLE.
2. After reading comments in the AID Creative Forums, what are your reactions to this type of communication? Do you think it is something you would be willing to check every few days to stay on top of community activity? How would you contribute to developing a Community of Practice: Would you use a forum or a weblog?
