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Lessons learned through PLENK 2010

Stephen's presentation on PLENK

"The following is a list of the feeds harvested as part of the PLENK2010 course. This list may also be obtained as an OPML File."

Captured and shared as a Diigo bookmark because I only found the link in Stephen Downes' blog and can't see it as a top-level link in PLENK2010 site.

"It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure." Clay Shirky speaking and Web2.0 Expo in 2008 between "Here comes everybody" and "Cognitive surplus". There was an interesting, somewhat negative, reaction from George Siemens when this video was mentioned in the Friday discussion ... Shared with PLENK2010 by Kimberly in the "Adventurous Learning" blog (http://learningpirate.blogspot.com)

I think this video was selected by Kimberly because the title chimed with the problems of coping with the amount of information that is being generated by the PLENK2010 MOOC. But it contains other interesting messages as well. For example the issue of privacy in social networks and issues around group work in social networks and the problems that may have for educational institutions.

A discussion forum instigated by Scott Wilson, co-author of one of the Week 1 readings, and arguably (so far as I can tell from what I've read in the context of the PLENK2010 MOOC) the inventor of the term PLE. A good place to go for extra background and other readings related to "Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems" (Wlison, et al, 2007)

A Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) for the Personal Environments, Networks and Knowledge (PLENK) 2010 Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). Created by @cpjobling from a dynamic OPML file provided by Stephen Downes, at the suggestion of @psychemedia by following the instructions provided by @cogdog.

SlideShare presentation with audio by #PLENK2010 facilitator Rita Kop. One of the readings for week 1 - although this is actually a "listening"

I had trouble getting this to load ... perhaps all 1000 PLENK2010 participants were trying to watch at the same time!

From facilitator Dave Cormier -- "The concept of the Personal Learning Environment in all of its wondrous forms has been one that I've struggled with over the last four or five years that I've been familiar with it. I'm very excited to be taking part in the PLENK10 course in order to take the time to focus on these ideas and get a clearer sense of what I mean by the word. I would add, that I think this is one of the central values of an open course… it provides the opportunity to bring clarity to a subject in a field… even if we end up with different clarities"

Sounds like PLENK is on the right track

"Dave [Cromier], I agree with you, and encourage us all to create, co-create, and curate! Physical curation, and digital curation are the keys to unlocking the assets of my PLN." or is it? - A different view from David Roberts.

So is curation de-cluttering?

Steve LeBlanc describes what i'ts like to be part of the PLENK2010 MOOC and suggests a method of engaging with it. Nicely summarizes the thoughts that are probably already forming in peoples' heads even if they haven't been able to formalize them so well.

Iluminadora discusión sobre el rol de los curators en un curso. Gracias a Emapey!

A counter argument to the "Advantages of an LMS" from Anderson (2006) from the Collaborative Understandings blog. In the interests of balance I should state that the author doesn't comment of Anderson's "Advantages of a PLE".

Nice summary of the first week's readings and discussion by Stefanie Pike, Educational Technology and Change Journal.  "Both the discussion and readings helped me to refine my understanding of both concepts. To me, the term personal learning network refers to processes and structures within the personal learning environment. Another personal learning outcome is my new awareness of the importance of "curation" in online classes, an issue I have not yet thought about. A great deal of discussion time was dedicated to the problem of curation, that is, how to make the results of a forum or live discussion available without having to read through all comments. Dave Cormier and the participants vented different ideas and approaches - from structuring the process of curation in a wiki and using word clouds like Wordle and visualizations like concept maps to discourse analysis and approaches from computational linguistics. "Stephen Downes encouraged participants to be selective in their attention and activities within the class. "Think of it as football.  People do not stop watching football just because they cannot watch everything!" I wonder if Stephen was talking about american football or soccer? In soccer you just watch the player with the ball.

a course i'd like to take... but not at the same time as #plenk2010 (time limitations, you see)

tony hirst

applying GELPHI networking diagnostic to measure influences within a PLN

Clear differentiation between PLN and PLE. Me like.

beyond bubbles

Clay Shirky does it again!

As [Kimberley] was drowning Wednesday in #PLENK2010 feeds, someone threw [her] a lifeline (Clay Shirkey -- "It's not information overload, it's filter failure") -- via Twitter. There are so many really well versed Meta-brainiacs in this course (and [she uses] the term with great reverence and affection) that it is very easy to feel like something is bad wrong with you if you cannot keep up with everything. ... How is it possible to make so many connection so quickly? How is everyone wrapping their heads around this stuff?"