Week 2: My Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

Hello fellow bloggers! Another week, another post. 

Week 2’s session provided me the knowledge of 2 new concepts: PLE and PLN.  Going into week 2 I have never heard of a PLE or PLN before so learning about them through quizzes, articles and videos was very interesting and worthwhile. 
Just so that you fellow bloggers are up to par with my knowledge of what a PLE and PLN are I’ll share with you the meanings. A personal learning network (PLN) is a tool that uses social media and technology to collect, collaborate and create with connected colleagues anywhere at any time according to the edutopia. Using a PLN you can create a personal learning environment (PLE) which is a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning as defined by the free dictionary.

retrieved from  https://eltple.wikispaces.com/How+does+a+PLE+work%3F    

Week 2’s module has taught me that being a part of a PLN is key and your PLE can be used to better the PLN as a whole. Part of the learning activities this week was to view the ladder and determine where we are in regards to it. I’d say I am a considered a “conversationalist” only because I do own multiple social media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram in which I update multiple times and if not that at least once a week. Creating this blog for this course even though I have a Tumblr blog account I hope to use this as much as I use Tumblr even after this course is over with.

On Wordle I created my very first word cloud from an autobiography. Using Wordle and having it highlight and bold certain words was very fulfilling and being able to share it with all of you makes it all worth the while. I clicked the randomize button a couple of times until i came across this layout and set of highlighted words and knew this was the one I wanted to post with all of you. My favourite thing about my word cloud is the fact that "health" and "healthy" are bolded and apparent because they are really important to me. 

Aidoo, A. (CC) 2016.

In order to get to where I want to be I will have to learn to not procrastinate, improve on my time management skills and improve on my verbal communication. Wanting to get a career in the health care field is going to require a lot of work and specific skills including the ones listed already so working on them will get me closer to my goals. Also maybe changing up my environment to better suit my learning style will help like going to the library to study rather than studying in my room where I can be distracted easily.

Using Gliffy, I created the mind-map shown below of my own PLE. If I was to analyze my PLE I would conclude that I use my socializing and sharing information part more than any other via social media apps. If I would have to improve on my PLE I would say the section i should be using more is books and the library. Even though the internet now has E-books going to the library for research and such is still a good idea. After creating and thoroughly viewing my PLE, i hope to keep expanding it and improving on the components that are already there as the weeks in this course go on. 

Aidoo, A. (CC) 2016.

Until next week bloggers!