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Category Archives: Personal Learning Environment

Deck: Personal Branding To Start And Grow Your Career

Thanks to BUiD for hosting me today. Here’s the deck from today for those there and those who wished they were. Disclaimer: it’s an ongoing learning artifact for me, meaning: work-in-progress.

Summary: Social Media” is a tool and a topic. It is a challenge and an opportunity. It has the strange ability to be all around us but remain elusive to some, and a mystery to many others. The subject of this interactive session will be to demystify social media and answer the question, “How can I use social media effectively to build and promote my own personal brand to start or grow my career through building a Personal Learning Environment – and do so in a way that is manageable and effective?”

Check the full post for the slide deck.

The Social Media Classroom

And behold, the Social Media Classroom is born: The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets ,…

Personaliz(-ed) Learning/Living Environments

Personal Learning Environments: The Future of Education? Personal Learning Environments

DrupalEd: the answer…or more questions?

Drupal allows bloggers, small-business owners, corporations, communities, web developers and programmers to develop Internet environments that allow the integration, publishing and management of integrated content on a website. Because Drupal is open-source, there are a variety of add-ins that allow for a wide-range of application integrations. The guys at Funky Monkey (tools for teachers) have launched a social learning…