If You PLEs ... You'll Thank Me Later - Advance Your Career, Grow Your Business, and Expand Your Learning Options through Mastery of Personal Learning Environments
This presentation is from the 2014 USDLA National Conference.
In today's rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever that each of us becomes a life-long learner and that we help the learners we work with to follow that path. While some environments still provide active professional development plans, others do not. If an environment does provide an active professional development plan, too often it will focus on keeping skills needed for your current position up-to-date rather than increasing or enhancing your skills to expand your future opportunities. This issue is compounded in the many environments where active development plans are not offered; therefore, much of the development falls to you. One way to prepare yourself for whatever comes your way is by developing and nurturing your own Personal Learning Environment (PLE).
While the definition of a PLE may not be firmly established, at this point the focus is learner-centric and it provides ways for the learners to control and manage their own learning. A PLE is comprised of all of the tools, processes (formal and informal), and methods that individual learners use to expand their knowledge, skills and competencies. This would include, among other things, Web 2.0 applications, LMS, books, and people they connect with personally or professionally.
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If You PLEs ... You'll Thank Me Later - Advance Your Career, Grow Your Business, and Expand Your Learning Options through Mastery of Personal Learning Environments
1. If You PLEs …
You’ll Thank Me Later
@valarywithawhy
#usdlaPLE
valaryo@gmail.com
about.me/valary
5. Image created with http://www.tagxedo.com/ Cloud content from http://learnrinserepeat.tumblr.com
Learn, Rinse, Repeat: Where the learning never stops
17. Image from http://bit.ly/RMxcvr
“… knowledge is like milk. It has a shelf
life … *if you don't replace it+ … your
career is going to turn sour fast."
Louis Ross, Ford Motor Company
21. What is in my current PLE?
Formal / Informal
Consumer / Producer
Digital / Analog
Personal / Professional
22. What is in my current PLE?
Formal / Informal
Consumer / Producer
Digital / Analog
Personal / Professional
Process of developing your PLE
Curate | Contemplate | Contribute
Formal Learning
+ Work LMS
+ UMBC
+ MOOCs
(also informal)
Social Media
+ Google+
+ Facebook
+ Twitter
– hashtags
– microblog
– backchannel
– join chats
+ Tumblr
+ LinkedIn
– professional
profiles
– join groups
– ask/answer
questions
Me
Digital Content
+ Blogs
– comment
– add value
– start
conversations
+ Webinars
+ Safari online
+ Kindle reader
+ Google reader
– aggregator
– tag posts
In Person
+ Friends/Family
+ Work Colleagues
+ Conferences
24. “… my PLE has
become my lifeline. I
placed the learners
… where the heart is
because they are
why I do what I do!”
http://bit.ly/1jCtBWU
Nona Barker’s PLE
45. Review content
Reflect and writeComment on posts
Respond to comments
Share a link
Got an hour? Get online
46. ❑ 2 retweets
❑ 2 new tweets
❑ 1 tweet about you or your business
❑ 3 replies to new people
❑ 3 replies to people you already know
❑ Give thanks
Workout from http://bit.ly/1f53VGQ Image from http://bit.ly/1nHcbMC
Daily Twitter Workout
48. If You PLEs … You’ll Thank Me Later
@valarywithawhy
#usdlaPLE
valaryo@gmail.com
about.me/valary
Slides
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