"The Fellowship of the PLE"...this is what
Linda calls the bunch of us; I'm not sure whether she came up with the idea or is someone else's, but I'm guessing it was hers, so she takes credit for it. First time I heard her using it was last year, while we were planning our session for
TIES2012; there, we ran a symposium on PLEs, together with
Jordi Adell,
Oskar Casquero and
Ismael Peña López.
It came to mind because next week we will be meeting in
Aveiro (and
Melbourne, although not both, sadly), for the third edition of The PLE Conference (
http://www.pleconf.org/ and
http://pleconf.campus.sapo.pt/,
@PLEConf and
#PLEConf on Twitter). There's a lot of innovation this year: the two venues, the badges and the 2nd day keynotes; an exercise in crowdsourcing, the two keynote speakers for the second day of the conference were chosen by the "Fellowship"
Honestly, it was a shock to learn that I was one of the keynote speakers for this year's conference, together with
Grainne Conole: a double honor, to be chosen by my peers and to be sharing the stage with Grainne! I hope we'll do it justice. We have been busy thinking and planning, but the conference is getting closer and closer and I have to confess I'm getting quite anxious about the whole thing.
No spoilers here, but we have been thinking about three main topics: the 'VLE vs PLE' debate, 'going back to basics' and the evolution of PLEs. So now we are crowdsourcing the keynote itself, calling for participation and ideas. A couple of days ago I 'ran' into
Alec Couros on Twitter, doing the same thing for his keynote in Melbourne;
together with
Graham Attwell, they followed that approach (with huge success) to prepare their keynote at
The PLE Conference 2010 in Barcelona (for which I was local organiser, and which was then called PLE_BCN).
So, if you are interested (Yes, you are. And no, these are not the droids you're looking for), drop us a line, create a short video, or comment on this post and help us with these:
- What is your personal digital learning environment and how do you use it?
- What are the main obstacles for building and maintaining a Personal Digital Learning Environment?
- How has your use of technologies changed in the last five years?
- What are your views on the PLE vs VLE debate? is the VLE really dead?
It would be great to have your input about these topics! So, who's first???
