ebased personal learning spaces
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e-Based Personal Learning Spaces
Supporting Students’ Learning
Age of Connection
Age of onnectione of
We have gone Digital
The change changes us too
I connect, therefore I learn
Learning depends on the learnerIt can happen in multiple places.
Learning is social
Learning without borders
Social Softwarebridging between formal and informal
learning
Blog & wikis to power the Learning Journey
What’s a Blog?
A weblog is an online journal on the Web which allows people to automatically publish content in the form of posts (texts) and thus share it with a wider audience
What’s a wiki?A Wiki is a webpage, or a set of web-pages, that can be easily edited and updated with relevant information by a group of people interested in a given topic. It is a quite useful tool to promote collaboration among peers.
Blogs★Generally, developed only by one person and
read by many
★Structured in reverse order
★ Personal reflection of one’s (learning) experiences
★ Not necessarily limited to one single topic
★Connects to outside resources and audiences;* Allows interaction with its readers
★Encourages free and informal discourse
★ Promotes the progressive development of writing skills by the publication of new posts
★ Can help develop a reflexive and writing culture
Wikis★Usually developed by several authors and read
by many
★Structured according to the organization of content
★ Objective and factual
★Topical
★ Connects to external and internal resources and by a topic interested audience
★ Allows comments by the learning community
★Encourages structured speech
★Promotes a continuous revision of the existing resources and addition of new ones
Each Personal Learning Space is different and unique
We need to enter the 21st century
ePortfolios - The new CV
Mentoring might be key
The Basis[What/WHO determines my e-based Personal Learning Space(s)]
My BlogReflective Me
Making sense of my learning journey
Thank You!
Photo References
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• Pen: http://tinyurl.com/69eqxd
• Telephone Booth: http://tinyurl.com/6rq7p9
• Slide 5
• Men at the computer: http://tinyurl.com/5c5eck
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• University of Coimbra’s library: http://tinyurl.com/5sktxz
• Kids with a laptop: http://tinyurl.com/6ojfaq
Photo References (cont.)
• Slide 7
• Students around a laptop: http://tinyurl.com/4pg7a6
• Slide 8
• University of Coimbra campus: http://tinyurl.com/5sktxz
• Slide 15
• Donkey cart: http://tinyurl.com/5dr4pq
• Lisbon Tram: http://tinyurl.com/46px9o