Class Reflection: Personal Learning Environments

There were a lot of interesting topics from the expert presentations this week(March 25,10): Accessibility by Shri, Netop by Dustin and PLEs Personal Learning Environments by Klye.My most favorite is PLEs because we are all have our own learning environments and Klye did a very good for this presentation.I use igoogle as a mashup and add several windows in it, I have 6 email addresses, 4 free blogs and 3 websites, 3 youtube accounts, sign up for few social networking sites and a bunch of websites, using skype for international call and video chat and more.I keep update things in Thailand from my friends on facebook (and also fighting about political issues), online newspapers,lots of information goes direct to my emails. While I was listening to Klye,I was thinking about myself, my personal learning environment and I felt that my life are more crazy tan ever. I think now it's hard to seperate our private learning environment(outside school) and school environment because we are using almost the same sources of information.We google information for classes'works and for our personal needs. Although,we can say that the ilearn, myitec ning or this blog are for class, it has no rule saying that we cannot use them for personal need sometime.Now I want to organize my personal learning environments; I should eliminate some thing that not neccessary or redundane and add some new tools that answer my needs.
According to Educause, there are 7 things we should know about PLEs
1.What is it
2.Who is doing it
3.How does it work
4.Why is it significant
5.What are the downsides
6.Where is it go
7.What are the implications for teaching and learning
For the detail please visit http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7049.pdf