PLE/PLN
personal learning environment/network
A thank you to my PLN friends
May 3rd
I remember at a conference dinner a few years back in Perth, Kathryn Greenhill and another librarian (can’t remember who) left the dinner table to talk enthusiastically about PLN’s (or was it PLE’s?).
Over the years since, I have come to understand what PLN’s are – Personal Learning Networks. I have also come to dearly appreciate the individuals and friendships and connections I’ve made within mine.
This here is a post dedicated to them.
Recently, I have taken part in a secret stork project, initiated by Penny Dugmore (@greengecko29). The project came about as a secret santa type thing for all the women on Twitter that were expecting in the near future. So far, I’ve just been the recipient of gifts from secret storks but it will be my turn soon to post something to a soon-to-be Mum in Australia.
The following I have received in the post from some wonderful women in the New Zealand and Australian library community.
Thank you ladies.
Two banana boxes full of baby clothes from Sabine (@BeezilBeard) in the Far North District.
I’ve met Sabine once in-person.
Thank you so much Sabine.
A knitted starfish man.
This one is part of the Secret Stork project from Kate F in Melbourne (@katejf), a not-so-secret Stork.
Thank you Kate, it’s gorgeous.
Bib and newborn and small size cloth nappies from Penny (@greengecko29) of West Auckland.
Thank you Penny.
A crotched Peanut from Julia (@jaygee35) in Perth.
I think you’d classify this as a rabbit, but I think this one really looks like a Peanut type character. Perfect. Love it. Thank you.
A crotched kiwi from a librarian in Melbourne? It could only be the beautiful Kim Tairi (@haikugirlOz).
Thank you Kim.
Saving the best for last, this is a requested one from the lovely and passionate Naomi (@NaomiDoessel) in Brisbane.
I saw her divvying these up to other fellow Australian PLN’ers at NLS5 and cheekily requested one 
Reflection on the DailyImage2011 challenge
Jan 29th
Well, I piked out of the challenge sometime in September (for good reason) and managed to put in three images in December to round off the year.
Free-wheeling it
The Daily Image 2011 challenge – it was a challenge and I am glad I took part in it, thank you Kathryn for initiating and inviting me to join. The premise of the challenge is simple:
- Take a photo that has you or part of you in it, every day for one year
- Upload it to Flickr
- Tag it with “dailyimage2011″
- Add it to the group “Daily Image 2011“
- Optional extra: post to twitter with hashtag #dailyimage2011
I followed a number of colleagues based in Australia, started following them on twitter and met some of them in Perth in September when I presented at the ALIA 2011 Lib Tech Conference. I’d like to think that I’ve made friends with a couple of them too.
As Kathryn mentioned when she sent out the invitations to join in the challenge, she had tried it in 2009 and found that she was,
really confronted by the choices I had to make about how I presented myself. Did I always want to show myself as a healthy, cheery sort of person? How much of the ugly and everyday was I prepared to show?
- http://www.flickr.com/groups/dailyimage2011/
I managed to come up with 195 photos myself. Out of 365 days in the year that’s more than half of the year in photos – woop! I think that was alright for my first try and finding out I was pregnant three quarters of the way through!
I had quite a bit of fun doing it and found that yes, I did want to portray myself as a little manic and full of energy and life.
I found getting further into it that I was opening up a bit. I let people know that one of my favourite pastimes is sleeping and I think that I am very much like my cat. I even took a photo of myself crying – it was February the 22nd, the day of the major Christchurch earthquake where 180+ people died. I also found that I had to make a conscious decision not to identify my workplace in any photos.
Well here they are – My Daily Images of 2011 – Enjoy!
A few colleagues have started again for 2012 and I said I’d like to join in, so keep an eye out on the right-hand side for another flickr widget of that set.
Thanks guys, it was fun.
Chosen online communities to follow (aka Blogroll)
Apr 15th
- In the library with the lead pipe
- PUBSIG-L – list-serv for people interested in public libraries
- NZ-libs
- My Twitter community (links from people I follow)
Online resources I love to use on a regular basis
Apr 8th
- People I follow on Twitter
- Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com
- Stuff.co.nz
- Youtube (I love music, it’s the quickest way to listen to your favourite song)
- My gmail account
- My hotmail account
- My work e-mail account
- Wikipedia
On another note, I think I am a librarian’s worse nightmare. Hah!
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