Jared

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Since I [|first tried to visualize my PLE] I think I now have a better understanding of what it is and how it's useful. I look at my personal learning environment as a series of events, sequences, and branches. There are starting points and ending points, though those vary. It is these "sequence points", however, that are probably the most useful to look at and study:

Sequence Points

 * Laptop - articles, work-in-progress, media
 * Web-enabled phone - find info anywhere, anytime. Draft, store, send, share ideas and notes
 * Search engine - find info fast
 * Wikipedia/encyclopedia - a great place to start learning and branching
 * Libraries - find more info, books, articles
 * Diigo/Delicious bookmarking - save, store, share web sites. Also annotate sites for use in drafts
 * My blog - draft articles and ideas--very good for individual/personal projects
 * Google docs - draft, collaborate, and share--specifically good for work projects
 * Feed reader/GReader - incoming headlines and articles on topics I choose. Allows me to quickly survey the current state of affairs and branch in and out

These are primarily information management and regurgitation. I have a number of "interaction points" that cycle information in and out of my PLE:

Interaction Points

 * Conversations - one-on-one or small groups, live conversation is an art, and inevitably branches to different sequence points
 * Twitter - public microjournaling; great for bouncing ideas and starting conversations, branches
 * Other's blogs - gain perspectives, branch to information sources. Good branching
 * Blog comments - support or dispute my ideas, often sending me back to info sources
 * Mailing lists/discussion groups - still a great way to post questions and get answers, or vice versa. Sometimes an absence of answers is as important as an answer. I include LMS in this, as I teach and can learn as I teach.
 * Text messaging/IM/e-mail - brief q&a or one-to-one info sharing