personal learning environments - how to google one

Personal Learning Environments

Why do we need them?

How can learners use them?

My PLE Wikispace

My PLE protopage

My personalised Google page

Considering a PLE

• Why do I need a PLE?

• What is its Purpose?

• What content do I want to include?

• Who do I want to view my PLE?

• Where will I publish?

• How will I promote it?

• How could my learners use one?

Building a PLE in Google

• Step 1: Open your browser and locate Googlewww.google.com

Getting an account

• Step 2:Select the Sign In icon

• Step 3:Create a Google account

Accessing your account

• Step 4:Click the sign in icon once more

• Step 5:enter your email address and password

Personalising your home

• Step 6:Select the Personalised Home icon

Adding a tab

• Step 7:Select the Add a tab icon

• Step 8:key in a title and click ok

• Note:If you leave the tick in place Google will use a typical template for the tab

Sample template tab

Moving widgets around

1. Select the widget by its title

2. Drag to a new position in your page

Editing your bookmarks

1. Select Edit 2. Add a link to the

Community Engagement wikispace

3. Save

Expanding a widget

1. Select the + symbol to expand

2. Select the – symbol to contract

Adding widgets

Add more widgets to a tab by clicking

on Add stuff

Adding stuff

Add a widget by clicking on the Add it

now icon

Check out the new widget

Make your Google PLE your home page