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HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?

Interesting articles of the week
HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? (shared by Mariana Affronti)
http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html

What Are Books Good For?(shared by Fred Haas)

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Are-Books-Good-For-/124563

A list of free software for maps

(Credit photo:http://www.johnseelybrown.com/Growing_up_digital.pdf)
A list of free software here:
http://www.informationtamers.com/WikIT/index.php?title=Free_mind_mapping_and_related_types_software
shared by Sean FitzGerald
A powerful map (through Peter Stovall)
http://www.mindmeister.com/12213323/best-online-collaboration-tools-2010-robin-good-s-collaborative-map

My favourite sites (first week)

http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAABC-dUaUAA41_kzpeBQ==

http://www.symbaloo.com/#

http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/54E6FDBF-D339-1FFC-E9D6-7EA0E6FB23C4/

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

http://www.text2mindmap.com/

http://flexicon2.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-brain-as-my-ple.html

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/09/plenk-2010-most-awesome-course-on.html

What PLEs mean, some visions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9zSd5Gs6Mw

http://arenastudies.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/plenk2010-my-learning-environment-firth-week/

Rita eden valencia may 2010

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PLE PLN

A Personal Learning Environment is more of a concept than a particular toolset - it doesn't require the use of any particular tool and is defined by general concepts like: distributed, personal, open, learner autonomy. These conceptual attributes influence the types of tools individuals select to engage in learning. Often, PLEs are presented in contrast to organizational learning management systems.A Personal Learning Network is a structure that reflects relatedness to other people. Information sources (such as Google or databases) can be part of a PLN. A PLN is grown by adding new people or connections. A PLN is a reflection of social and information networks (and analysis methods).
Here is : "A Collection of PLE diagrams"
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

First post

Technology and internet, if used appropriately, can become source of self-improvement for teachers and this is still more realistic and possible for the teachers of foreign languages, especially English because this is the language in which a large part of all the material is published .The Internet also improves the possibility of “open learning” and PLENK seems really very open in each sense, I have signed up for PLENK2010 because I know I can learn more and more thanks to the wonderful criterion of sharing knowledge on the net.
Here is my map.
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