Last week I went to the annual conference of the Practice based Professional learning unit at the Open University; mainly to see David Boud, whose research I’ve quoted from extensively in my work on reflective practice and experiential learning. David’s paper was on assessment, experience and reflection, and was very provocative and challenging in terms [...]
I gave my presentation of blogs and the eflective practitioner as a webinar again last night if you want to see it it’s archived by wimba, its about an hour long. There was a great discussion at the end, particularly with Harold Jarche who picked up on 2 ideas in particular; the idea of blogs [...]
The new 360 report by the e learning guild on e learning 2.0 has some fantastic data on what and who is driving the adoption of web 2.0 tools in e learning. I’ve been trying to make sense of the data, especially in relation to other reports that have just come out like the BECTA [...]
I’m giving my talk on blogs and educating the eflective practitioner again on tuesday oct 14th at 19.00 BST online via WIMBA. You can register here
The BECTA report Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 has some great data from a survey on how schools in the UK are viewing web 2.0 in the classroom, and how children are using it outside of school time. And they make some really interesting conclusions from this, especially about the pace [...]
Is this the future of interactive, collaborative online courses? Tina Brown’s new online vessel, the Daily Beast, has just launched, with the philosophy that means it is not an aggregator, but rather in Tina’s words, a site that ”sifts, sorts, and curates.” What this means is that it provides a variety of ways to intersect with a [...]
To borrow a phrase from social networking guru Danah Boyd, my life seems to be in ‘perpetual beta’ these days. She used it in a talk at the microsoft research lab to describe how the pace of innovation is so fast that a product is never fully finished before an upgrade or a competitor comes [...]
From Chris Brogan’s blog, Social Media Tools Are Like Phones “One thing we misunderstand frequently when talking about how great and amazing social media is comes from the fact that we’re thinking from the perspective of what we want the tool to do while the people who are receiving the message might be thinking about the [...]
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An interesting post on Clive on learning: Synchronous e-learning myths #1: An hour’s enough for anyone The accepted wisdom is that webinars need to be short and sharp, but my experience so far on delivering our online masters in photojournalism and documentary photography at the LCC suggests otherwise. Clive notes 2 presentations at an elearning network [...]
