Tag archives for PLE

December Big Question – What did you learn about learning in 2009?

It’s the last day of December, the last day of 2009, the last day of a decade. But I still want to answer December’s Big Question: What did you learn about learning in 2009? Grad School Personally, I took five graduate courses (for my Master’s degree in Instructional Systems at FSU) Development of Computer Courseware: [...]

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My education-based entries into EMC’s Innovation Conference

For the last two years, I have submitted an education-based idea to EMC’s Innovation Conference. Both years the idea was based on a PLE – Personal Learning Environment. Both years, I used information gleaned from the Connectivism courses to shape my ideas. Both years my idea was ignored by the selection committee (cue sad music….). [...]

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Building a Learning Community – What we’re doing

I just finished my class meeting, and saw this posted by @courosa: Pursuing the elusive metaphor of community in e-learning environments View more presentations from Richard Schwier. This presentation is about community and eLearning. It talks about non formal and informal learning. I really wish I had been able to hear that presentation! We’ve been [...]

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Blogging my Homework

In my Human Performance Theory class, we have to turn in Executive Summaries (ES) and mindmaps for selected readings each week. Since I know so many people who are experts on performance, I thought I’d share what I am doing on this blog. Background OK, I’m doing this for selfish reasons – I know my [...]

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Communities, PLEs, small groups, & power

My mom loves telling the following story about me, to emphasize the fact that I have always been bossy. I am the oldest, and I have one brother who is 16 months younger than me and another who is 3 and a half years younger (there are seven of us in all). Apparently, we all [...]

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