Personal Learning Environment

 PLE

There are many factors involved in my personal learning environment that are school related, and many that are not. I decided to add both into my PLE. People often say I daydream and sometimes live in a place called “Lexieland.”  I therefor made a game of Candyland, based on the life of myself, kind of a play on words. Plus, I love board games!

The game consists of normal activities that may occur through my day, from the minute my alarm goes off, till the moment I go to bed, both depicted in my PLE. I used various colors, since it is supposed to represent the candy land board game, and I also love rainbows of color. For my body to feel amazing, and be able to do well at school and work, I need to work out. If I don’t, my mood and energy level greatly dwindles. I work out five days a week, consisting of mainly weight lifting, but also biking, swimming, dancing, or gymnastics. I depicted many of these photos on my PLE in various places. The various places are because sometimes I work out in the morning, and other times in the afternoon or evening. I started weight lifting in the navy, and was trained by many sailors and marines. I now get the joy of helping others gain strength in the gym

I like to stay updated with the world, so I read a little bit from BBC in the morning when I wake up. I specifically picked BBC over other news stations because I think they do the best job covering news worldwide. When I lived in Europe, it would be the only english speaking station on the TV when traveling and staying in hotels. Next I chose books, for I love to read. For fun I love reading romance novels and mysteries, but now that I am back in school, there is so much reading, that it takes up many hours of my week, so I felt it was important to depict it on my PLE.

Going on with the game of Lexie land, I used google chrome as the search engine, for all day I am on “the google” researching and learning new information. Following that I put a picture of a swimmer. I love swimming and being in the water so much, that I even got my diving certification last year. I absolutely love being in the water. I chose the google name next, as I use several of their companies apps, such as google hang outs, and google docs & drive. Google Docs has been very useful for school work, especially group projects. Next is the Adobe Illustrator icon. This program is new to my learning environment, but has become very important in my school work. Microsoft Word is the program I have used for years to write papers, resumes, recital programs, ect. It is key to succeeding in school. On the same magenta rectangle, I put face book, something I have used for years, but more for a social reason. Keeping in touch with my friends that are all over the world is now possible with facebook. At night time I catch up with my friends in both America and Europe through facebook chat, and video phone calls.

I find it easy to express myself through dance, which is why I have a picture of a ballerina. I love dancing, and try to take dance classes, and go out dancing to live music on the weekends. A well rounded lifestyle is of upmost importance to having a happy personal learning environment. I depicted both disney, and the piano in the following picture on my board game of life. I love playing & teaching the piano. I have been playing since I was six years old, and teaching when I was 16. So piano is a huge part of my life. Four years ago I was a musician for disney, I love the company and would like to work for them again possibly someday. Continuing on, I have the words “eating healthy.” What you eat effects everything in your life. Your overall health, body image, energy level, skin, workouts, even your social outings and friends. I eat primarily on the paleo diet, basically no processed foods. This is a HUGE part of who I am, and I am even drawn to others who eat a similar diet.  If I eat unhealthy foods, I feel awful, and will in return diminish my success in school and learning. Along the lines of healthy eating and a necessity to be on my diet, I absolutely adore cooking. It is therapeutic for me, and I look forward to it. I love taking a bunch of fresh ingredients, and creating a delicious meal.

My macbook has been good to me for four and a half years now, for both school and work. I spend more hours then I want to on it doing work, as everything is digital these days. The picture of the french horn is the reason I am in grad school now. It gave me a good, stable job in the navy, and in return, is now funding me to go back to school. I have been playing for 15 years, and my whole life has been surrounded by musical groups with the french horn. I put that in the same yellow rectangle, for I majored in music education, so teaching is also a huge part of my life. Teaching make me feel like I am helping someone and making a difference. Lastly, before my final sleeping photo, I imbedded the picture of Skype. This is a program I use to communicate socially and professionally with people worldwide. Especially when I was living overseas, it was a huge part of my life. In terms of my learning environment, I use it for interviews and conferences.

My game of candy land is a great representation of my day to day learning environment. No two days are exactly the same, just like a board game, each day is unpredictable.

 

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