Jennifer Moss

I’ve been thinking a lot about personal learning environments (PLE) since I started working at CDE during the week of iTeach in May.  It was quite interesting to check out the pet toolboxes and portable networks that others use for daily personal learning and exchange within communities of common interest.  There was a lot of overlap with my own personal favorites but I feel that my learning flow has also been shaken up a bit with the transition into the field of instructional design in a good way, as I begin to focus on new directions.  Thinking about myself as a learner and designer seems like a good place to start in trying to sort out some of the internal chaos during this transition.

Since I’m also in the process of buying/selling houses and moving, a floor plan seemed like a relevant visualization tool for the moment.  Having never created a PLE diagram before, it was an interesting exercise bordering on futile, as it seems impossible to reproduce all influences by and for the way one individual learns and ways which one connects within various communities. Limiting the PLE to only work would cut out a lot of exploration and learning, limiting it to the digital environment is also troublesome, yet that seems like a good place to start.  In the end, it became somewhat tiresome.  I just could not fit everything in – I need a bigger office and bedroom, not to mention a garage and patio. Despite the reservations I now have for this exercise it was still interesting to see what immediate major overlaps there are for me between work and fun on a very superficial level. This was not a big surprise but it’s nice to have my work happiness validated somewhat. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life…

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