Social Software and more…

In my opinion, Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) are the way to go. After having been following the discussion (for example here) for a quite a while, I found this new coverage by Derek Wenmoth via Stephen Downes today. Even though the graphic applies to a school environment, it might be applicable to universities as well.

Here’s Derek’s description of his graphic:

He sees his diagramme “is an attempt to describe thedevelopment and potential intersection of these two systems, ie 1.Personal Learning Environment that is “owned”, managed and maintainedby the individual learner, and 2. Managed Learning Environment that is”owned, managed and maintained by a school or institution.”

I also like this thought of incorporating a Managed Learning Environment (which might also be commercial) and a Personal Learning Environment. I’ll see if I can manage to draw my own graphic during the next weekend.

Today something on podcasting… There seems to be a fairly new German magazine called "Podcaster"which presents a monthly overview about what happened and what willhappen in the German "Podosphere". I’m posting this here because eventhough this blog is in English I suppose there might be some Germanreaders out there interested in German news about Podcasting.

There are some hints on eduational podcasting inthe newspaper-like pdf-file as well. It’s interesting to find apdf-newspaper about podcasting. How come they are not doing it as apodcast or as a simple blog? Does this mean we’re going back to theroots?

By the way the next meeting of the Swiss Podcasting community will be at the end of November in Aargau.

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