D’Arcy Norman muses about Personal Learning Environments. This post illustrates a few things:
- The concept of a Personal Learning Environment as melded against various Web 2.0 applications we’ve discussed in class and will experiment with.
- Somebody for whom blogging and use of other web-based services is integrated into their daily activities, an expert in using these. The interesting point here is to read his trajectory for the use of technologies over time (from FidoNet to Listserv’s, etc.). Think of the increase in sophistication over the last decade, the potential for complexity for ‘average’ users (read: not experts), and think of the role of the instructional designer in rolling these applications into a usable PLE-for-all.
- Examine the graph he generated and see on display the potential power of community/social blogging we talked about in-class.
- Look at the post itself and read the comments to see how they extend the view of the initial post. Also, see how the post itself references the original inspiration for the post (another post) and various other references and resources.
