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A description of my Personal Learning Environment and suggestions for others
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Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs
Presented by
Joan Vinall-Coxhttp://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/my-e-portfolio/
Niccolo Machiavelli - "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
Web 2.0, Academia & PLEs
PremisesPremises Education exists to share and extend knowledge Information is increasing at an incremental rate We are living in the most extensive and rapidly
changing communication environment ever Our culture is engaged in creating and learning
how to ‘be’ within this new and constantly shifting environment
Definitions
Web 2.0
Social Media
PLE / PLWE - http://joanvinallcox.posterous.com/ple-3-views
Knowledge Workers - PLN
Why Go Beyond the CMS?
• JOLT, June 2008
• Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education
• http://jolt.merlot.org/vol4no2/alexander0608.htm
My PLE
• http://www.wisdomap.com/shared/1fdc
• http://joanvinallcox.screenstepslive.com/lessons/1545
• http://tinyurl.com/5mr53c
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
• Initially more work
BUT• Access to the greatest library ever existing• Skills and know-how required beyond microfiche
and Dewey• Set-up and monitoring equivalent to keeping-up
in your discipline
Your Choices
• A speedy covering of the following Web 2.0 applications
• Pausing only by request
PLE Essentials
• Search• Google & Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.ca/
• Social bookmarking• del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis • diigo - http://www.diigo.com/user/joanvinallcox
• RSS Reader• Bloglines• Google Reader
Social Media Basics
• Social Media– Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
– LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/joanvinallcox
– Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/
SM for Teaching/Learning
• Blogs– Blogspot - https://www.blogger.com/start
– Elgg - http://elgg.org/
– WordPress - http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/
• Wikis - http://whyusewikis.wetpaint.com/
More Learning Tools
• Zotero - http://www.zotero.org/ - Research Tool
• EasyBib - http://www.easybib.com/ - Bib. Tool
• EverNote - http://evernote.com/about/what_is_en/ - Saving, especially for visual people
More Free Teaching Tools
• Voice Threads - http://voicethread.com/#home – Visual & voice – social commentary possible
• Skitch - http://skitch.com/ – Capture, edit & annotate images for online or off
• Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – Record and edit sound > mp3s
• Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/
Oral Rhetoric
• http://oralrhetoric2007.blogspot.com/ • Tools
– Blog,– Wiki – for class information, jigsaw sharing of
assignments, and posting completed assignments– Audacity – for audio recording and editing– Box – for hosting mp3s of assignments
Thanks
• For further information– [email protected]
• Creative Commons Copyright– http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/