Start You Up The Personal Learning Experience for Library Staff and other Busy Professionals

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Start You Up! The Personal Learning Experience
for Library Staff and other Busy Professionals

• By Marianne Lenox
• Huntsville Madison County Public Library
• Staff Training and Development Coordinator
• December, 2007

Class blog found at http//mlxperience.blogspot.co
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What is a Personal Learning Experience?

• An Interactive webpage that uses the principles
  of the Personal Learning Environment, but it is
  so uniquely your own that it compels you to
  return, discover and explore.

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Steven Downes Three Principles of the Personal
Learning Environment

• Interaction
• Pull Communication
• Motivation from sharing
• Usability
• Self-centered ownership
• Consistency
• Simplicity
• Relevance
• Aggregated Topic Searching
• Filtering

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Why Should I Try Creating a Personal Learning
Environment?

• Attitude of lifelong-learning
• Manage your informal learning
• Provide physical evidence of your self-taught
  skills

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How much time do I need for a Personal Learning
Environment?

• Set up in as little as a few hours
• Brief, frequent visits
• Constantly refining
• Review weekly

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What tools do I use to create Personal Learning
Environment?

• Ajax Start Page
• Research Tools
• Aggregated Search Sites
• Social Bookmarking Sites
• Social Networking Sites

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My Personal Learning Environment Model
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My (Evolved) Personal Learning Environment Model
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Personal Learning Environment Apps

• Sample start pages
• Sample content

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Google.com/ig
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iGoogle PLE Starter Page
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Protopage.com
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Protopage PLE Starter Page
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Netvibes.com
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Netvibes PLE Starter Page
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Pageflakes.com
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Pageflakes PLE Starter Page
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Sample Topic Searches for your PLE

• Kebberfegg
• del.icio.us
• CiteULike
• Technorati
• Google Blog Search
• Twitter Tracking

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Sample Networking Content for your PLE

• Networking
• Web Junction
• Ning Library 2.0
• del.icio.us
• CiteULike

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Sample Multimedia Searchesfor your PLE

• Google Video
• SlideShare
• SuTree

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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
web2.0
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Putting it all together Adding a Del.icio.us
Feed to a Pageflakes PLE
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Thank you!

• Review
• Discussion
• Evaluation

For links to starter pages, other tools and
further discussion please visit
http//mlxperience.blogspot.com