e-Based Personal Learning Spaces

Supporting Students’ Learning

Age of Connection

Age of onnectione of

We have gone Digital

The change changes us too

I connect, therefore I learn

Learning depends on the learnerIt can happen in multiple places.

Learning is social

Learning without borders

Social Softwarebridging between formal and informal

learning

Blog & wikis to power the Learning Journey

What’s a Blog?

A weblog is an online journal on the Web which allows people to automatically publish content in the form of posts (texts) and thus share it with a wider audience

What’s a wiki?A Wiki is a webpage, or a set of web-pages, that can be easily edited and updated with relevant information by a group of people interested in a given topic. It is a quite useful tool to promote collaboration among peers.

Blogs★Generally, developed only by one person and

read by many

★Structured in reverse order

★ Personal reflection of one’s (learning) experiences

★ Not necessarily limited to one single topic

★Connects to outside resources and audiences;* Allows interaction with its readers

★Encourages free and informal discourse

★ Promotes the progressive development of writing skills by the publication of new posts

★ Can help develop a reflexive and writing culture

Wikis★Usually developed by several authors and read

by many

★Structured according to the organization of content

★ Objective and factual

★Topical

★ Connects to external and internal resources and by a topic interested audience

★ Allows comments by the learning community

★Encourages structured speech

★Promotes a continuous revision of the existing resources and addition of new ones

Each Personal Learning Space is different and unique

We need to enter the 21st century

ePortfolios - The new CV

Mentoring might be key

The Basis[What/WHO determines my e-based Personal Learning Space(s)]

My BlogReflective Me

Making sense of my learning journey

Thank You!

Photo References

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• Pen: http://tinyurl.com/69eqxd

• Telephone Booth: http://tinyurl.com/6rq7p9

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• Men at the computer: http://tinyurl.com/5c5eck

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• University of Coimbra’s library: http://tinyurl.com/5sktxz

• Kids with a laptop: http://tinyurl.com/6ojfaq

Photo References (cont.)

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• Students around a laptop: http://tinyurl.com/4pg7a6

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• University of Coimbra campus: http://tinyurl.com/5sktxz

• Slide 15

• Donkey cart: http://tinyurl.com/5dr4pq

• Lisbon Tram: http://tinyurl.com/46px9o