Entries from April 2009

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Live online research seminar for postgraduates

As part of my PG cert in teaching and learning in art and design at CLTAD, I am carrying out an action research project, so here is the proposal….
Live online research seminar
For some time I have been aware that in most of  my teaching practice I am emphasising collaboration and student centred learning, but that [...]

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Building an online community of practice around photojournalism

A large part of my time over the next year and a half is going to be devoted to a JISC funded project to trial how online collaborative tools can be used to enhance the relationship between the academic world and that of business and the community – known as BCE for short. My project [...]

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Wimba Connect 09: Bringing the world into the university and bringing the university into the world.

One of the big themes that came out of Wimba Connect 09 which has just finished in Phoenix AZ was that of how live web conferencing can move out of the classroom and into the world outside, both in terms of the internal communications of the academic institution, but also in terms of the relationship [...]

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Michael Wesch: From knowledgeable to knowledge-able

Wesch just gave a keynote at the Wimba connect 09 conference in Phoenix AZ, and it was great to see him deliver in the flesh. Having seen most of his material online, there wasn’t much new here (in the sense of new to me, because of course everything about his research is new!!), but he [...]

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

References for community of practice paper at wimba connect

here are the links to online references for my presentation ‘Surfing the long tail of education” at Wimba connect 2009
http://www.diigo.com/user/mapjdlinks/wimbaconnect
and here are the references
Boud D, Cohen R and Walker D (1985) Reflection: turning experience into learning. London: Kogan Page
Brockbank, A., & McGill, I. (2007). Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education. Maidenhead: OU Press.Eskow, S, and [...]