Resources

**Defining PLE/PLN and related concepts**
WikiP on PLE WikiP on PLN EduTechWiki on PLE Personal Learning Environment: A Conceptual Study

**Technology**
I am reading this right now and I highly recommend it. If you didn't think a completely unique and new viewpoint on technology was possible, well here it is. Really well written, amazingly deep and insightful and highly relevant to what we are doing. The title is not so good but everything else about it is insanely great. -Rick
 * What Technology Wants** by Kevin Kelly on Amazon Google Bookstore (ebooks)

Check out Blekko: @http://blekko.com/ And this article in Techcrunch about it: @http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/01/why-we-desperately-need-a-new-and-better-google-2/
 * A Better Search Engine?**

A New York Times series on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and their impact on society. @http://projects.nytimes.com/smarter-than-you-think/
 * Smarter Than you Think**

**Who's who in PLE/PLN Or people to follow**

 * Stephen Downes** with the Canadian National Research Council I like this slide share of his: Learning Networks and the Personal Learning Environment.
 * Terry Anderson** (of Rourke Garrison and Anderson and the Communities of Inquiry Model for higher ed) with Athabasca University. I like this blog post: PLEs versus LMSs Are PLEs Ready for Prime Time
 * Alec Couros** teachers k12 students (like me) 54 min video of him presenting at University of PEI (not that fluid but introduces great examples of free education (see this Rick), examples of creative collaborations Open and Networked Learning
 * Wendy Drexler** University of Florida researching the development of PLE/PLNs among highschoolers. She proposes the Networked Student model (following Couros's Networked Teacher Model. Interesting (though research academicky) article here. A Commonkraftesque movie by her students: Networked Student
 * Dave Cormier** Here's his great blog - Jane

**Sites**
WikiEducator's stated goal is to build a thriving and sustainable global community dedicated to the design, development and delivery of free content for learning in realisation of a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. The project purports to focus on building capacity in the use of [|Mediawiki] and related free software technologies, developing free content for use in educational institutions and elsewhere, facilitating the establishment of community networks and collaboration, and fostering new technologies.[|[][|9]
 * WikiEducator: @http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page**
 * WikiEducator** is an international online community project for the collaborative development of learning materials, which educators are free to reuse, adapt and share without restriction. WikiEducator was launched in 2006 and is supported by the non-profit Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation. A variety of learning resources are available on WikiEducator: direct instructional resources such as lesson plans and full courses, as well as learning-support resources, such as individual school portals and funding proposals.
 * //I don't know if it's a significant presence in terms of e-learning, connectivism, etc but I found it via a link on PLENK.//**

Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge
 * PLENK @http://connect.downes.ca/**
 * //this is the site for a MOOC based on PLE/PLN//**