Personal Learning Environment

Hello Everyone! We are back this week to talk about some things we learned while doing our PLE’s. First of all to get started what is a PLE? Well it’s an acronym that stands for Personal Learning Environment. It’s a great tool that can tell you what your individual learning habits are and how exactly you learn! The resource that helped me better understand PLE's was the Digital Study Skills website.  

This week I started off by creating my own PLE, as shown below.

Nayyar, N. (CC) 2016.

As you can see I divided my PLE into five main categories: Education, Organize, Create, Connect, and Collaborate. Within these, I have divided them into subcategories of what I thought are vital to my life and my success. As I envision myself to be in one of the top management positions in the next 5-10years, I see myself using these digital tools and resources for my success. To stay connected with all the important people in my life, I would continue to use things like hotmail, text messaging and Facebook. Along with sites like LinkedIn. To keep myself organized and on top of my things, I would continue using what I already use because I have been successful so far and hope to be in the future as well. I believe I have a good habit of writing things down so I don’t forget them later.  For example, things like note pads, so I don’t forget deadlines, an agenda so I can keep myself organized and pace my work and a Google calendar so I know when things need to be done and how much time I have in between my tasks and assignments. To get to my future position I would need to collaborate, and as shown in my PLE, I would continue doing that through Sakai, until I graduate, Skype and Google Docs.  Even once I graduate, I would continue to use these tools because I think it has become a learning tool for me. I feel that these tools are helpful in keeping everything organized and together. Another main category I had for myself is create because we need something to portray our work. Alongside with the blogs and Pineterst, an essential creating tool I prefer is PowerPoint. I feel that I am comfortable using PowerPoint because I have been using it for so many years and that even when I’m in a higher position of some company, PowerPoint’s can always be a tool to a good presentation. Lastly, for my goals to be successful I need to be educated and that is going to continue through sites like Sakai. That is wherever I have any form of online assessment or site to keep in contact with my work.

As everyone has done their own PLE’s, they know how they learn best and how they are going to reach their goals. This tool helps every individual because it is made to everyone’s own learning ways.

Along with the PLE’s this week, we also got the chance to work with word cloud or also known as Wordle. As you can see below, I got the chance to create my own wordle.

 

Nayyar, N. (CC) 2016. 

Honestly before this, I didn’t even know that, that’s what you called it. I can say for a fact this week was an awesome learning experience. I got make my own PLE which I thought was so much fun because it taught me more about myself, and I got to see how a word cloud is formed. I think this not only helped me but everyone who did this exercise because it visually showed them what they are capable of.

So until next time, thank you for reading my blog and I will see you all very soon!!

Nisha Nayyar