Personal Learning Environments
Personal learning environments are systems or tools used to help learner take control of and manage their own learning. The term Web 2.0 is used a lot when discussing PLE’s. Various tools can include: Blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds and many other resources. Below is a brief list of possible tools as well as genre description they fall into
Note: Links have been attached to most of the tools. Click on the name of the tool to take you to its host page.
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Social Networking (find expert resources on various topics) |
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Social Indexing-Organize resources (websites, links, pictures) |
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Google Reader |
Rss feed aggregator – Note: It has been discontinued as of July 2, 2013 |
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An open marketplace where teacher share & / or sell lessons they have created |
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Doctopus (Google App) |
A Google script that is used within a Google spreadsheet. It is used to distribute, share, and manage documents with students |
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Ted Talks (videos) |
Video lectures (flipped classrooms) |
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Visual and collaborative curation tool used to collect, organize and share URL’s as well as uploaded photos and notes |
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Organize resources (bookmarks, research tools, pictures) |
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Secure online environment for collaboration, file sharing – setup is a wiki format |
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(retired Nov 2013) Personalized Homepage |
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Social Indexing- Organize Tweet topics |
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Repository for teachers – includes videos and lesson plans |
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Shared Document creation |
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Organize Resources (bookmarks) |
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Video lectures (flipped classrooms) |
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Mixed video on various topics |
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online environment for organizing and presenting various resources |
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web app (web page design) which allows people to add, modify or delete content in a collaborative environment. |
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Photo app (collaboration) |
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Blog (education focus) |
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web-based app for story creation |
I have posted some curated videos on the topic of Personal Learning Environments below. These are not my work, just resources from others on the topic.
