Collaborative, interactive presentation at Educause Australasia, 2009. Educational Institutions no longer provide all the tools required for librarians to keep up to date with new technologies, collaborate with colleagues and share professional knowledge. Journal articles, conferences and formal coursework are no longer the primary methods of keeping up to date. In this panel discussion, Kathryn Greenhill and Penny Coutas from Murdoch University, Peta Hopkins from Bond University and Constance Wiebrands from Curtin University discuss the online tools they use daily to create their own Personal Learning Environment. They describe how some of these tools work, what suits their daily workflow and may even vigorously defend the merits of their personal favourites.

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Personal Learning
Environments
What Works for Librarians
Kathryn Greenhill
Peta Hopkins
Penelope Coutas
Constance Wiebrands
Slide design based on Rockwell, C
(2008) People Can’t Tell You What
They Want http://www.slideshare.

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What do you want to know ?
What do you want to know?

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What do you want to know?
1. An introduction and information
2. Where's a good place to start without scaring
people off?
3. A definition of PLE
4. PLEs are the "new thing" and will revolutionise
education completely. Thoughts?

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We have a wiki
http://ple4librarians.pbworks.com

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What is a PLE?

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Everyone has a PLE
?
Who are the
people you find
things out from?
What are the
resources you use
to stay up-to-date?
?

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PLEs are not always online…
…but ours are (mainly)

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What do we use, and why?

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Our common, core tools
● Gmail
● Blog
● Twitter
● Facebook
● Feed Reader
● PBworks (PBwiki)
● Flickr
● Google Docs
● Social bookmarking

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Ashton & Oprah are just catching up

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PLE and Learners

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High School & Undergraduate Students
...the digital divide?
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Postgraduate Students

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PLE Story: Traveling with the PLE IRL
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PLE Story: Accessing Academic Resources

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PLE Story: Creating Opportunities
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PLE Story: Conversion
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Photo by xcode

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Our PLEs

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Con
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Peta
● Prezi
● Bubbl.us
● MP3 player

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Kathryn
Dropbox
Etherpad
Evernote
RememberTheMilk
Tripit
@whereskathryn at twitter
Stanza
Seesmic

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Penny's PLE

23. Penny’s PLE
Methods
Misc.
Document
Analysis
Focus Group
Interviews
Interviews
Classroom Observations

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Issues with PLEs
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Work space vs social space

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Work space vs social space

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Getting stagnant and the echo chamber

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Time

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Digital footprints, privacy, and findability

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Did we answer your
questions?

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Do you have anything else
to add?

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Do you have anything else to add?

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First steps for expanding
your online PLE

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First steps for expanding your online PLE
1 2
Follow your passion
Do it together
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Update your status

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Thank you for being
a part of our PLE
today :)
Contact info:
k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au
Image credits:
Slide 4: http://ple4librarians.pbworks.com
Slide 5: Penelope Coutas
Slide 7: http://www.wordle.net
Slide 9: http://flickr.com/photos/rmen/1291881666/
Slide 10: http://sn0tty.files.wordpress.
com/2009/04/oprah_tweet.jpg
Slide 11: http://www.visuwords.com
Slide 13: http://www.phdcomics.com
Slide 14: http://icanhascheezburger.com
Slide 15: http://community.livejournal.com/article_request
Slide 16:http://www.flickr.
com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Slide 17: http://www.flickr.
com/photos/wongjunhao/2953814622/
phopkins@bond.edu.au
p.coutas@murdoch.edu.au
flexnib@gmail.com