Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I learn a few things about learning environments.

I recently attended a conference on innovation in education at George Mason University. I am not a professional educator and, to be candid, I never thought much about professional educators.

To show that I am not all cold hearted and stone headed, I learned a few things about Personal Learning Environments. These are basically web tools that allow a person to make their own Internet or their own portal to the Internet.

• Reclaim Hosting gives a student a web site with blog and just about everything else they could want for $12 a year – that is inexpensive.
• Symbaloo allows you to create a button interface to the Internet sites you like to use all the time.

I see great value in both these tools. Try them for yourself.