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The exercise to collect as many PLE diagrams<\/a> as I could was not an end in itself, as interesting as that might have been. In doing that, I was hoping to learn from how people conceived of their PLEs and use this as the basis for an attempt to illustrate my own PLE.
\nLooking at the collection, what struck me was that there were 3 main ways people oriented their PLE diagrams: by tools<\/a>, by uses<\/a>, or by people<\/a>. I added a table of contents to the top of the wiki page<\/a> that organized the diagrams around these orientations.<\/p>\n

There are a few (interesting to me) outliers<\/a> there as well, ones that combined a number of these orientations into a single diagram. These appealed to me, because I don’t see a PLE, even my own specific one, as being just a single set of tools; we do choose a specific set of tools, but often replace them with others that fulfill a function better. But in addition to the tools and the functions, an important aspect to me is the different ways we can use these tools based on levels of trust\/online identity & reputation. That’s why the slogan “PLE is People<\/a>” isn’t just a joke, funny though it might be.
\nSo with that in mind I set to using my limited drawing skills to visualize my PLE in a way that captured not just the tools, but the uses and the trust relationships as well. I’m hoping the diagram is self explanatory (otherwise, well, what was the point!) but a few explanations:<\/p>\n

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