Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: My Personal Learning Environment

My PLE is really quite simple. It's my network.

My personal/professional learning network is scalable--it's organic and expands/contracts as needed.

My PLE is a joint effort between me, social software applications, and my networks. And It's ultimately about working with people.

Here's how I connect:

Gmail -- love my email, can't live without it

del.icio.us -- the personal/social dimensions of this application are mindblowing

friendfeed -- a new way for me to browse network member's online activity

popurls -- an aggregation of feeds from popular Websites -- this is a pop culture paradise

Twitter -- my network's spinal column

Google Reader -- selected sites that generally pique my interests

My weblog -- the place where I go to reflect, synthesize, publish, and connect

Finally, I think it's important to mention the glu that holds my PLE together: Firefox.

I use other tools like Skype, a thesaurus, Wikipedia, YouTube, various wikis, Elluminate, Last FM, my office's Moodle installation, and a host of Google search engines at various times, for a variety of purposes. I also pop into various online communities like Facebook, LinkedIn, a few Ning sites, and Metafilter, as a way to get a general sense of things online.

Your turn

So, now I've showed you mine. It's your turn to show me yours. What does your PLE look like? How are you connecting and what are you connecting to?