PLEs - Blog-based approaches
From JITT
This page and other PLE pages in this wiki (reach them from Personal Learning Environments) have been constructed and are maintained by Mark van Harmelen. Feedback and suggestions for additions are most welcome. Contact Mark as mark -a-t- cs . man . ac . uk
I can't say I have particularly looked for a bloggy style to PLEs, but James Falmer, with one co-authorship, crops up universally here.
This page obviously needs some development.
Anne Bartlett-Bragg and James Falmer, Blogs @ Anywhere: High fidelity online communication,
http://incsub.org/blog/2005/blogs-anywhere-high-fidelity-online-communication 4 July 2005
James Falmer, How NOT to use blogs in education, http://blogsavvy.net/how-not-to-use-blogs-in-education 27 July 2005
Summarises paper (see 4 July above)
James Falmer, How you SHOULD use blogs in education, http://blogsavvy.net/how-you-should-use-blogs-in-education 29 July 2005
James Falmer, Multi user blog tools - overall ratings and reviews, http://blogsavvy.net/multi-user-blog-tools-overall-ratings-and-reviews, 24 October 2005
James Falmer, Blogs as Personal Learning Environments, http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/blogs-as-personal-learning-environments/ April (?) 2006
There is an associated webcast URL in this post -- http://www.higheredblogcon.com/teaching/farmer/screencast/higheredblogconple.html
Miguel Guhlin, Blogs: Webs of Connected Learning http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189500884 1 July 2006
"This article shares how blogs enable both adult learners and students to create their own Personal Learning Networks, sometimes with unintended consequences – both positive and negative. It also examines possible solutions to address unintended consequences among student blog use."
Jo Kay, Cleaning up my PLE for CLC, http://jstuffed.blogspot.com/2006/07/cleaning-up-my-ple-for-clc.html 31 July 2006
Discusses own blog-based/related tools assembled as a PLE
Clarence Fisher, Reflective Spaces and Learning Networks, http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2006/08/reflective_spac.html 9 August 2006
Blogs for lelarning can be used in two ways:
- Blogs as reflective spaces, where students explore deeper and deeper, and use the blog like a personal notebook. Others can drive this process by asking questions on the blog, etc, but this is not the primary focus.
- Blogs as networked phenomena where students connect with each other to learn more through communual activity.
Blogs usage can fall in one category or other, but generally overlap categories.
