Followup to PLE post
The Ed Techie: My personal work/leisure/learning environment mentions the idea of a Personal Work Environment (PWE) that is quite similar to a PLE (personal learning environment for those not familiar with the term or my earlier post). He has a nifty graphic showing all of the Web 2.0ish stuff he uses in his personal environment (not work-provided like Outlook, just what he uses beyond the work-provided tools). He also comments that it’s really a combination PLE/PWE/PRE (personal recreation environment) because he can do all three things at once with many of these tools. While I’ve taken to the idea of a PLE for a couple of topics I want to either stay on top of (Web 2.0) or learn more about (Security), the idea of compiling and using a PWE is pretty cool as well! The funny part about all this – I found the link via my recently set up Web 2.0 PLE…
I decided, by the way, on Protopages for my PL/W/RE. It’s at http://www.protopage.com/webgoddess if you wanna check it out. So far, the Web 2.0 and Security tabs are the only ones I’ve customized!
December 8th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Thanks for the link – I’ve not tried protopages so will have a look (your link didn’t work for me, BTW). One of the interesting things about my PLE/PWE was that it’s just sort of built up over time, I didn’t set out to create one. I suppose you could argue it isn’t really an environment in that there is little integration between the tools, but it is an environment conceptually, ie I think of all these tools as the way I go about my work.
Martin
December 8th, 2007 at 10:38 am
I fixed the link – thanks for the heads up… I really liked the idea of the mixed environments you mentioned in your post – the work/learning/recreation stuff all mixed together. It’s pretty much how I live – I work in the same place and on the same machine at which I play. After reading all these mentions of PLEs, the more integrated approach you laid out really seemed to work for me!
December 8th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Thanks for the link – I’ve not tried protopages so will have a look (your link didn’t work for me, BTW). One of the interesting things about my PLE/PWE was that it’s just sort of built up over time, I didn’t set out to create one. I suppose you could argue it isn’t really an environment in that there is little integration between the tools, but it is an environment conceptually, ie I think of all these tools as the way I go about my work.
Martin
December 8th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I fixed the link – thanks for the heads up… I really liked the idea of the mixed environments you mentioned in your post – the work/learning/recreation stuff all mixed together. It’s pretty much how I live – I work in the same place and on the same machine at which I play. After reading all these mentions of PLEs, the more integrated approach you laid out really seemed to work for me!