Week 10 - Penny's PLE

When I go through the lines under "WHO PROVIDES SERVICES?", it is true that when someone completes their course and leaves the institutions they might not be able to re-access the portal provided by their college/ university. It is somehow wiser to use a networked service which offering public access. Meanwhile I am trying to copy and print out information from MOODLE in case I can't access it after the end of the course

Well, different tools have been introduced since week 3. For the fact that the use of technologies are changing with each passing day, I wonder I can catch that up on time but the good news are The New Literacy really gives a real insight into various formats used by educators and to certain extent into creating and collaborating T&L. The tools are there but at last, a successful virtual T&L is largely depends on the design of the course, the feedback from students, availability of internet access, and may be time?

I have learned quite a bit and my Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is expanding

Week 3: Social Bookmarking - Delicious (wonderful tools to share a website with students, especially journal articles, government's website, clinical guidelines' website)

Week 4 - Blogs (A social interactive interface which allow bloggers to write an online diary, express opinions and share informations, minimum interaction allowed as viewers can only write comment but no editing of information)

Week 5 - Wikis (Wikis are crazy, they know everything! Type on it if you are confident.)

Week 6 - Podcasting (testing testing...think of using this tool to record the conversation between pharmacist and patients (role play by students) - a great tool to learn communication skills). First you need a computer and a microphone, then you need a software to edit and record your voice: Audacity , finally a podcasting hosting site to store your voice

Week 7 - Video and webcasting (Youtube and others)

Week 8 - Twitter (updates of your status...e.g. I am typing now )

Week 9 - I am using FACEBOOK

Week 10 - RSS, Pageflakes, etc (I am good at adding a webpage into Google Reader, but having problem when copying the RSS embed link, it doesn't work sometimes...)

I wish my PLE will keep expanding...