My Personal Learning Environment

This course has been an eye-opener to me in many areas, as I did not consider myself very tech-savvy and would prefer the conventional pick-up-the-phone to speak or a face-to-face communication.

As the weeks progressed however, there were so many interesting tools that were introduced. Yes, some I had heard before, like Facebook and Twitter, but did not find any need to be a part of, until it became necessary to sign up if I wanted a pass in this course. Although it has mainly been social networking sites, but I can now see a lot of potential in how these tools can be used in the e-classroom situation, sharing of ideas in an informal way, outside the classroom, yet is very much still a form or learning. And of course to have so many ex-students asking to be added as friends on Facebook was an added bonus!

I have no doubt that learning is continuous and the PLE is more a set of tools to support this learning. I am glad to have been given this opportunity to be exposed to the various tools and approaches and am no longer phobic signing up for a new tool or software application. I will definitely continue developing and learning even though this course is coming to an end.

Here's some of the software in my PLE so far:
Word processing : Microsoft Office Tools
Email: Intranet and internet service providers, Gmail, Yahoo
Diary/Blog: Blogger
Social Networking sites: Facebook, Twitter
Photo sharing: Flickr
Web browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
Bookmark sharing service: Delicious.com
Podcast: Solidcasts.com + Audacity
Search engines: Google, Yahoo
and of course (ideally) to tie it all together: RSS, Google Reader