Graham Attwell and PLEs

Kai Pata gives a summary of a discussion on the Personal Learning Environment concept between Graham Attwell and some participants at the PROLEARN summer school . Kai writes:

The workshop was a discussion with students and Graham, it was a bit disappointing… I think mostly very general things were brought up by students and Graham’s answers were same general. Anyway, nice experience of how to spend 1,5 hour of making bubbles with some pearls among. Graham’s point of course was that he is not presenting anything but he is here to start the conversation, in the end he said that for those who feel disappointed, there is the slidecast of 20 min is in slideshare and lots of info is under PLE tag in his blog.

According to Graham:

Learning environment is not a program or site in internet - its a series of tools which individual learners use across multiple devices which are used in different ways and different contexts.

Graham here defines a learning environemnt in terms of technology (i.e. a series of tools). I think however that technology is just an enabler. In my eyes a learning environment is an ecology for knowledge networking.

PLE Illustrations

Via Stephen Downes.

Scott Leslie provides a collection of PLE diagrams by different people.

Google's Joe Kraus on How to Make the Web More Social

Via Jochen Robes.

An interview with Joe Kraus, director of product management at Google, about the social Web.
Joe among other things talked about Friend Connect "How do you make the whole web social?" and OpenSocial "How do you get distribution for developers on social networks?".

Baby Loves Banjo

A lovely video...

SoSEA 2008 Submission Deadline Extented

The deadline for paper submission to SoSEA 2008 has been extended until June 22, 2008.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together interested academics, practitioners, and enthusiasts to discuss topics related to the area of social software engineering. Focusing on technology issues, the workshop will offer an opportunity for the participants to share experiences and discuss challenges involved in building and using social software. A special emphasis will be put the role of social software concepts and technologies in shaping up future software development. The workshop will also identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead.