It’s Personal: Learning Spaces, Learning Webs

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Week 4

Week 4 Objectives
Create your blog using Blogger

 Blogger help

Week 3

1. Save feeds to bookmarks in your Google toolbar
2. Save feeds to Starred area Reader page
3. Create tags in Reader for feeds to use in a blog
4. Set-up a blog using Blogger

PLE Week 2

Objectives

• Add content to your iGoogle page 

• Locate information in your area of interest to automatically feed to your Reader page 

• Add RSS content to your  Reader page 

• Install the Google toolbar  

http://www.google.com/toolbar/ff/index.html

Personal Learning Environments Week 1

Personal Learning Environment
Week 1 Objectives
Introduction
• Describe Personal learning Environments (PLE)
• Describe RSS feeds
Personal Learning Environment Building- using Firefox
• Create a Google account
• Setup an iGoogle page
• Set-up a Reader page

What is a PLE?
A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a collection of free, distributed, web-based tools, usually centered around a blog, linked together and aggregating content using RSS feeds and simple HTML scripts.
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Ple#What_is_a_Personal_Learning_Environment.3F

PLE Diagrams
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Video: RSS in Plain English

Describe RSS feeds

How To Create a Google Account

Create a Google Account

Create a Google account

http://webtrends.about.com/od/howtoguides/ht/google_howto.htm

 

iGoogle: A Mini Product Tour

iGoogle Tutorial

Setup an iGoogle page



How to Make an iGoogle Webpage

http://www.ehow.com/how_2080976_make-igoogle-webpage.html


How to Make an iGoogle Home Page on Internet Explorer

http://google.about.com/od/googlebasics/ss/sethomeie.htm

Google Reader in Plain English

Set-up a Reader page





How to use Google Reader to manage RSS feeds
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/google-softwaretips/google-reader-tutorial/

Harold Jarche » Creating your PKM processes

Harold Jarche » Creating your PKM processes: "Creating your PKM processes
Posted on July 20th, 2009 by Harold Jarche

In Sense-making with PKM I described some personal knowledge management processes using various web tools. The overall process consists of four internal actions (Sort, Categorize, Retrieve, Make Explicit) and three externally focused ones (Connect, Contribute, Exchange). Personal knowledge management is one way of addressing the issue of TMI (too much information).

pkm-flow"

Social Media & Open Education

EC&I 831: " Social Media & Open Education, a graduate course from the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This open access course is available to both registered and non-registered students. It features openly available, live and recorded presentations from notable educators & theorists. It is anticipated that the open nature of this course will benefit both the registered and non-registered students especially in the fostering and development of long-term, authentic, educational connections."

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Social Media In Learning: This week's blog postings

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Social Media In Learning: This week's blog postings: "Here are this week's postings on my Social Media in Learning Blog - with most recent first."

Links to help you get started on your personal learning network: 21 Must-Read RSS Feeds

Links to help you get started on your personal learning network

• Free Technology for Teachers: 21 Must-Read RSS Feeds

  tags: pln

  • Feeds directly related to education:
    A Geeky Momma's Blog
    Dangerously Irrelevant
    iLearn Technology
    Instructify
    It's Not All Flowers and Sausages
    Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
    Moving at the Speed of Creativity
    Nebraska Change Agent
    The English Blog
    Welcome to NCS-Tech
    
    Feeds targeted toward the tech early adopter audience:
    Ars Technica
    Center Networks
    CNET News
    Google Earth Blog
    Google LatLong
    Killer Startups
    Mashable
    Read Write Web
    The Official Google Blog
    
    Three feeds that don't exactly fit in the tech or K-12 category:
    Daily Writing Tips
    Open Culture
    Seth Godin's Blog

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Beyond Management: The Personal Learning Environment

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Personal Learning Links

• Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009

  Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009 gsiemens on Jul 5th 2009 Given the interest in the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course Stephen and I delivered in 2008, we’re pleased to announce an open version of the same course for fall of this year. You can register to receive course information here .

• News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed

• Student leader Wes Streeting wants universities to abolish lectures - Times Online

  • “Come the revolution, I’d see virtual learning environments acting as a space for students to come together and collaborate.”

• e-Learning and 21st century skills and competences | Tony Bates

  tags: skilss, competencies

  • information technology is no longer just a useful tool that supports university and college administration and to a lesser extent teaching and learning; rather it is now an integral and essential component of almost all core higher education activities, and as such needs to be used, managed and organised accordingly…

    Because digital technology is now so pervasive, and affects the creation, storage, access, analysis and dissemination of knowledge, all areas of human activity are increasingly being touched by it. Academic knowledge is no different. To be a scholar now means knowing how to find, analyse, organise and apply digital information. Studying without the use of technology is increasingly like learning to dive without water. This is not an argument for teaching generic computer literacy skills, such as how to keyboard or use a word-processor, but for using computers for digital imaging in medicine, for graphical information systems in geology, for using wikis to teach writing skills, for kno

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