Hi all #PLEK12 followers,
I am having a very good moment. A lightbulb went off for me tonight about my personal learning environment (PLE), and I am looking forward to the next several weeks of investigating the many tools and opportunities for organizing information in my new PLE world.
This week I am learning how to organize my world. I have been on the "road less traveled" here in the PLE environment - not really having things click for me and feeling like I am on a scavenger hunt or a treasure hunt (scavenger hunt is probably more appropriate - trying to find a list of specified things for an ultimate prize - I just recently heard this definition on "The Office" television show). My scavenger hunt included tweeting, blogging, Diigoing, discussing, writing and trying to figure out where I was going while I was going. I had a frustrated feeling along the way, and I felt lost and in the dark. I really can't explain why - because I am normally very comfortable online. But this entire process of using various tools and communication options has been so wide open and free, that I was uneasy that everything I was doing wasn't tied up neatly in one location. It turns out I had failed to correctly bookmark our classroom link to the googledocs area. While this seems like a minor issue, it caused me a good bit of strife, and it taught me that the road less traveled is not always good. I'm back on the right path now, and I'm really feeling great about all the things I am learning.
This week, I am making an effort to explore all of the tools available to us, and I look forward to figuring out how I can use these tools for creating an ongoing personal learning environment related to health and fitness. Forward and onward.
Allie
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