E-flections

Etienne talks about ‘walking the landscape of practice’ recorded at the iped 09 conference on a flip video camera

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 story, [...]

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 tools [...]