tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post194858570849340996..comments2024-03-27T19:53:53.708-06:00Comments on growing changing learning creating: Growing PLEs from seedTom Haskinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-52500702505613280912008-09-09T09:14:00.000-06:002008-09-09T09:14:00.000-06:00Thanks for your insightful thoughts!I share your h...Thanks for your insightful thoughts!<BR/>I share your hesitation about prescriptive definitions and have sought to keep the possibilities wide open with phrases like "my world is my PLE" and "PLE's are nothing". When we make a PLE into a thing, we disrupt it's open-ended process with too much structure. <BR/><BR/>Kevin in part of a startup: RedRover.com which increases the networking among college students on a campus. I suspect he was exploring PLE's as a way to identify student interests to match up with other students. Several other bloggers have revealed their uses of the tools to formulate their own PLE's. Stephen Downes, Michele Martin and Harold Jarche come to mind. A Google search could come up with many more I'm sure.Tom Haskinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-27772704880118974412008-09-08T21:43:00.000-06:002008-09-08T21:43:00.000-06:00Tom, I've been reading your blog with interest, pa...Tom, I've been reading your blog with interest, particulary in reference to PLE's and it seems to me that the looser the definition of a PLE the better.<BR/><BR/>The danger with being prescriptive about something as nascent as the concept of individuals being involved in self directed, immersive and networked learning, is that you run the risk of limiting it's scope.<BR/><BR/>I have read your post also on "your first PLE" and appreciate your acknowledgement of the concept as organic. The pot plant metaphor goes a long way to describing how I feel about PLE's.<BR/><BR/>I would be interested to hear from Kevin how he is using the tools that he has at his disposal to construct his PLE. <BR/><BR/>"What's your definition?" is a personal question, and everyone will have a different way of using what they have around them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-69840453211119111652007-09-11T13:58:00.000-06:002007-09-11T13:58:00.000-06:00Thanks KevinI did come up with some concrete steps...Thanks Kevin<BR/>I did come up with some concrete steps and caveats for each one to help newbies get started. It's long enough to be tomorrow's blog post. I'm glad you asked me to get down to the specifics to get a PLE started.Tom Haskinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-52592988673073128852007-09-11T08:43:00.000-06:002007-09-11T08:43:00.000-06:00Tom - Your answers are good philosophy and thought...Tom - Your answers are good philosophy and thought frameworks (and that's what I love about your blog in general) but what about the concrete steps?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps this is someone else's area that you could point to?<BR/><BR/>I believe that the separation between philosophy and practice is normal, so I don't expect you to have a ready instruction manual for implementation of your ideas, it's just that, if you did, I would love to see it :)<BR/><BR/>What about starting with del.ico.us and an RSS reader?<BR/><BR/>Or rss to text messaging (knowing that more students have phones than computer access).<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work!Kevin Prentisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11117174550347871502noreply@blogger.com