Personal+Learning+Environment

**Personal Learning Environment (Blog)**
Because most of our learning for this class will involve the Internet, it will be helpful for us all to have our own online Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) where we can reflect on our learning, turn in assignments, share ideas with each other, take notes, and store “stuff” related to technology integration that you may want or need in the future. Many people use PLEs to help them become lifelong learners in a particular discipline. For this assignment, you will create your own PLE, using a blog or wiki. I recommend that you create a blog using Blogger because you can access it with the same Google username that you will use for other assignments in this class. Blogger is also easier to use, in my opinion. However, if you have prior experience with blogs, you might want to try Edublogs, or some other technology that allows you more options. Whatever you use must have an RSS feed so we can follow your posts. Because most of you will create a blog, we will usually just call our PLEs “blogs” for short.


 * Resources**
 * * (recommended) Blogger tutorial
 * Blogger help page
 * Edublogs tutorials
 * RSS in plain English
 * [|My PLE](which is similar to what yours will need to be like)

Here is a link to the example Blog I showed you in class: []

The Tutorial below will walk you through the process of adding other people's blog's to an RSS feed. media type="youtube" key="kY5cMEOl9Js" height="344" width="425"

**Rubric**
one or more of the following: additional pictures, new theme, and gadgets/widgets/plugins (write a post about what themes/widgets/plugins you chose) ||= Personalized through an “About Me” page (including a picture of yourself) ||= The blog exists, but we don’t know by whom! ||
 * = ===Characteristic=== ||= ===Stellar=== ||= ===Adequate=== ||= ===Unacceptable=== ||
 * = ====Created a blog or PLE (4 pts)==== ||= Personalized through about me page and
 * = ====Made it social (3 pts)==== ||= Added a blogroll with RSS feed to your group members’ blogs. ||= Added a blogroll with links to your group members blogs. ||= Talk to the hand, I’m not social. ||
 * = ====Made it reflective (3 pts)==== ||= Labeled (or tagged) your post, and linked to at least one outside source. ||= Tagged your post. ||= Only wrote a post describing your technology background and personal goals for this course. ||