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"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?

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.

t's Personal: Learning Spaces, Learning Webs Steve Wheeler University of Plymouth cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2009. Agenda * Concept of personalized learning * Personal learning environments * Personal learning networks * Personal webs * Mash-ups and aggregators in the creation and management of personal webs.

"A short description of how to start a PLN" OurSocialVoice on YouTube. Shared by Kyle Pace (www.kylepace.com) and Richard Byrne of www.freetech4teachers.com.

One to add to the inevitable follow-up course materials.

Nice comparison of PLE and an institutional VLE (or LMS) -- in this case Blackboard -- based on what Gabi Witthaus wants to do with her PLE. In conclusion the VLE is seen has constraining so maybe it's the freedom to choose that puts the 'P' in PLE.

Interesting discussion, started by Emma Stodel of "competencies" in building and managing a PLE. Still not sure that I've seen a good description of just what is a PLE and why you need to be competent.

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"