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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 wonderful analogy to the experience of being in a MOOC (or any other on-line community really). Sean might be missing out on some useful discussions if he's avoiding the Moodle forums. There's a lot going on there too.

An interesting slant on the idea of a PLE: to ensure that it is really personal, Jim Groom asks the participants in his class "Digital Story Telling" at UMW to purchase their own internet domain, get a hosting account at a hosting service and point their DNS registry records at it. Then create a blog (presumably using Wordpress, I didn't follow the link to the instructions, but it would be my recommendation). I'm not sure that I'd be quite so anti-institutional, but building a PLE around your own domain certainly ensures that it's identifiably yours.

Building a PLE around your own domain and hosting service certainly ensures that that it's identifiably yours. This is an example from "5 Points about PLEs PLNs for PLENK10", one of the week 1 readings.

found this via http://www.weiterbildungsblog.de/2010/10/18/top-100-tools-for-learning-2010-list/3784/ which is a great german blog about e-learning yb an aducational consultant named Jochen Robes. (he has been mentioned by Eva Birger who participates in the course too)

"Online, we are obsessed with size and numbers (Twitter followers, open courses, number of blog hits, Google alerts on ourselves/blogs, etc). But you don't need to run an open course with large numbers of participants to make an impact. An open course for five people is just fine. It's the act of giving, not the subsequent impact, that is most significant. "

"Why educators should consider creating and participating in a personal learning network. "

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!