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Heidi Steiner Burkhardt Head of Digital Services, Kreitzberg Library

Norwich Staff In Service Day January 7, 2015

Tools and Tips for Creating a Personal Learning Environment

always be learning

What is a PLE?

The term personal learning environment (PLE)

describes the tools, communities, and services

that constitute the individual educational

platforms learners use to direct their own

learning and pursue educational goals.

EDUCAUSE (2009) https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7049.pdf

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Staff Professional Development Guide

http://guides.norwich.edu/staffprodev

Goals for Today

Resources • Training & Learning

• Reading

• Connecting

• Library Content &

Services

Tools • Collecting

• Consuming

• Engaging

• Automating

Resources

Training & Learning

Microsoft Office Training

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/

EDUCAUSE Live!

http://www.educause.edu/conferences-events/online-events/educause-live-webinars

O’Reilly Webcasts

http://www.oreilly.com/webcasts/

WebEx Channels

http://www.webex.com/webinars/

TED Talks

http://www.ted.com/

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

CodeAcademy

http://www.codecademy.com/

Udacity

https://www.udacity.com/

Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/

edX

https://www.edx.org/

Reading

Higher Education News

Chronicle of Higher Education Web version has limited free content. The Library's online access is through one

month ago and we also maintain a print subscription.

http://chronicle.com/ or via Library website

Inside Higher Ed News and views on many areas of higher education.

http://www.insidehighered.com/

EDUCAUSE EDUCAUSE is valuable specifically for technology in higher education. Well known

for their 7 Things reports, annual Horizon report and more.

http://www.educause.edu/

Reading in Your Field

Heidi’s Reading List

State, National and World News

General Library News

Technology

General Business

Higher Education

Design and User Experience

Library Technology, Academic Libraries

Food!

Reading in Your Field

Heidi’s Reading List

State, National and World News

General Library News

Technology

General Business

Higher Education

Design and User Experience

Library Technology, Academic Libraries

Food!

What about you?

Connecting

Structured

Professional Organizations and

Associations

Unstructured

Social Networks

Library Content

and Services

Online Library Resources

http://norwich.on.worldcat.org/atoztitles/#journal

Online Library Resources

http://guides.norwich.edu/az.php

Personal Development Databases

Personal Development Databases

Personal Development Databases

Personal Development Databases

Services

Borrowing Materials

Request Materials from other Libraries

through Interlibrary Loan

Help from Librarians

Tools

Collecting

Instapaper

https://www.instapaper.com/

Pocket

https://getpocket.com/

Diigo

https://www.diigo.com/

Evernote

https://evernote.com/

Pinterest

https://www.pinterest.com/

Zotero

https://www.zotero.org/

Consuming

Feedly

http://feedly.com/

Digg Reader

http://digg.com/reader

NewsBlur

https://newsblur.com/

Flipboard

https://about.flipboard.com/

Engaging

Twitter

https://twitter.com/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com

SlideShare

http://www.slideshare.net/

Automating!

IFTTT

https://ifttt.com

Zapier

https://zapier.com/

Image Credits

1. PhotoBookGirl Chalkboard Freebie #2 More Chalk by PhotoBookGirl CC BY-NC

6. Apple by YO$HIMI CC BY

17, 33, 54. Think by Sam Howzit CC-BY

18. Danbo Reading… by Daneil Go CC BY-NC

22. Iron link by Andreas Levers CC BY-NC

35. finding balance by woodleywonderworks CC BY

42. I <3 2 read by Kate Ter Haar CC BY

47. Graphic Conversation by Marc Wathieu CC BY-NC

51. cup of robots ` on white by hobvious sudoneighm CC BY

56. Unsure Of The Next Step by eviloars CC BY-NC

57. thanks in purple by artnoose CC BY-NC-SA

Find Staff Professional Development Resources guide http://guides.norwich.edu/staffprodev

Heidi Steiner Burkhardt hsteiner@norwich.edu, x2171 @heidi_sb