{"id":1513,"date":"2013-10-17T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2013-10-07T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:33:16","slug":"the-personal-learning-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/10\/the-personal-learning-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal Learning Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I learn a few things about learning environments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently attended a <a href=\"http:\/\/ctfe.gmu.edu\/professional-development\/innovations-in-teaching-learning-conference\/\">conference on innovation in education<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/gmu.edu\">George Mason University<\/a>. I am not a professional educator and, to be candid, I never thought much about professional educators.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reclaimhosting.com\/\">Reclaim Hosting<\/a> gives a student a web site with blog and just about everything else they could want for $12 a year &#8211; that is inexpensive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbaloo.com\/\">Symbaloo<\/a> allows you to create a button interface to the Internet sites you like to use all the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I see great value in both these tools. Try them for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,20],"tags":[207,142],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-learning","tag-education","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}