Update on my PLE

I thought it was worth revisiting my PLE to see how much has changed since I first completed my reflection on tools that I use on a regular basis. Back in 2011 my PLE looked like this. A few years down the road and its surprising how little has changed considering how fast things change on the internet. I guess this is because I choose tools that were effective from the off. Yes there have been some changes Google reader has gone being a significant change and I was quite annoyed to see Google also announce the end of  iGoogle leaving egg on my face.

However Feedly was an easy transition from Reader and Symbaloo just became more prominent as a bookmarking tool. An addition to my toybox is a Nexus and the use of evernote looks very promising. I have also experimented with publishing on YouTube and Elluminate/Blackboard collaborate is noew well embedded into my teaching and support of online learners.

I am also very please to have kept adding to my Diigo library it now has several hundred useful articles available through a search engine, its just a pity I didn't spend more time on the tagging to make them more consistent.

OK so here is my PLE Version 2

Getting on board the digital scholar bus.

It's a a slow moving bus, starting with a little blogging, opening a twitter account and finding useful people to follow. The bus then leads away picking up artifacts and experiences as it cruises through the academic streets and avenues. Before long the bus contains pictures stored on flickr, presentations in slideshare a number of followers on twitter. Before you know it you are cruising along and refer to yourself as a 'Digital Scholar'. Martin Wellers journey has led to an online book which is well worth a read. The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice. I bought a copy, but in true 'openess' fashion Martin has made it available online.

I also found a presentation Martin put together for the London School of Economics (LSE). NetworkEd: Technology in Education is a seminar series organised by LSE's Centre for Learning Technology (CLT). The series invites speakers from education, computing and related fields to discuss how technology is shaping the world of education. 

Martin puts together 10 Digital Scholarship lessons in 10 videos again well worth viewing, if you are not sure what all the fuss is about. The video is available from this link. Finally he summarises the ten lessons on his blog here.

I think I have found a good example of what all this fuss is about, and why perhaps its time to hang around at the bus stop waiting for the next one to arrive.