Friday, February 3, 2012

My personal learning environment

When learning about personal learning environments (PLNs) this week I started to reflect on my own. When seeing the visuals posted from others I realized my learning environment is much less social networking focused than others. Many of the examples I saw included Twitter, Facebook, and a whole host of things I'd never heard of as ways for learning and finding new information. I think (based on my understanding of the concept) that my PLN consists of a lot of journal articles (pulled mostly from GoogleScholar), collaborating through Dropbox (maybe that is my social networking piece), and meeting face-to-face with colleagues to learn new stats methods or work through problems. Perhaps I'm wrong, it may be that my academic learning is less social-network based but other learning does lend itself better to such sites. As I look for places to live in Australia, for example, I am highly dependent on people's reviews and suggestions. Speaking of, anyone been to Australia and have recommendations for things to do/see?

2 comments:

  1. Your impending move to Australia is so exciting! I think you might find that including social networking in your PLN as you learn about your new home, that you will also start to include resources in your other interest areas. I would be happy if you include me!

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  2. PLN- you use it for academics or for social life..it's great. Enjoy your trip !!

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