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Blogs As PLEs

I was asked in a recent comment what I thought the best PLE software was (this following my comments about Ecto). I was going going to say it hasn't been built yet, and to a certain degree this is true. But if I had to point someone to something that actually does exist, I'd probably say WordPress, with any number of the plug-ins. Why? Well as this post notes, in most VLEs information is "caged in". But a system like WordPress really allows you to get content in and out fairly efficiently. That's most of what we want from a PLE. But see also Tony Hirst on PLE as platform touting the Benefits of Facebook and Zoho Notes (which I also discussed recently). If I could have my own private versions of those (on that, see Steve O'Hear on Facebook as platform) - and not be forced to rely on their benevolent hosting - they would also be strong candidates. Emma Duke-Williams, Blogging IT and EDucation, May 25, 2007. [Link] [Tags: ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Blogs As PLEs

Anymouse, May 25, 2007

Stephen

Facebook is an unbelievable tool for connecting to friends and a select learning community. What I am concerned about, above and beyond the proprietary/hosted thing which is major, is the limited space for prolonged and articulated blog post discussions. Where would you do that? Facebook provides a wall (kinda different from comments), allows for images, and more recently embedded YouTube videos (I even heard you can get your twitter updates in Facebook - and even tweet?). So perhaps the RSS and multimedia possibilitie are ramping up. Nonetheless, the ability for posts, static pages, and a dynamic and a customizable skin seems lacking. Nonetheless, I have been spending a lot more time in Facebook recently (none on Zoho Notes as of yet) and may have to start hacking around in there (oh, wait I can't :)

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Re: Blogs As PLEs

Anymouse, May 25, 2007

Facebook also has Notes for longer items where more depth is needed. It can even import items from an RSS feed to the Notes section (I have it sucking my blog's RSS feed into my Facebook Notes).

I'm seeing FB as the place where things get pulled together and put into context, not where the content actually lives, though...

- D'Arcy [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Blogs As PLEs

Tony Karrer, May 26, 2007

Stephen - aren't PLEs today a combination of different systems, e.g., Wordpress + del.icio.us + a PBWiki. Not to mention using Google and other things to find information.

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Re: Blogs As PLEs

Stephen Downes, May 27, 2007

> I'm seeing FB as the place where things get pulled together and put into context, not where the content actually lives, though...

Right. That's why it has better qualifications than many to be a PLE

> aren't PLEs today a combination of different systems, e.g., Wordpress + del.icio.us + a PBWiki.

Yes, more or less, but that's not I was asked, so...

And it would be nice to have an app that coordinates these. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Blogs As PLEs

jaycross, May 28, 2007

I agree with Tony but want to expand beyond that. When Academics and CLOs discuss PLEs, they miss the fact that there's life after school (or training). The closest thing I have to a PLE is my work environment on the net. I use it to learn, sure. But I used it to get to this post. We need to take the L out of PLE.

Rather than "environment," which includes F2F and other non-networked pieces, I am learning toward calling this a Personal Dashboard or Personal Interface. None of us have pinned this one yet but I hate to see people lock in on PLE since it misses the growing convergence of learning and work.

jay
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