Entries Tagged as 'reflective practice'

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

References for blogging talk at Wimba

Thanks to anyone who attended my talk in the Wimba distinguished lecture series on wed 24th sept, there were over 60 people online from australia to the USA pretty much spanning the time zones. Here are the references for the talk:
Boud D, Cohen R and Walker D (1985) Reflection: turning experience into learning. London: Kogan [...]

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Distinguished lecture at Wimba online

I’m giving a Distinguished Speaker lecture at Wimba online tomorrow wed sept 24th at 16.00 BST/11.00ET about blogs in postgraduate education as an aid to reflective practice.
you can register here 
the abstract is here
Blogs form a vital part of the collaborative space in which postgraduates interact with each other and with tutors and industry professionals; operating [...]

Friday, September 19th, 2008

What is professional??

A story about blogging, journalism and education this week that reflects the grey boundaries of professionalism in the digital age. 
Alana Taylor,

a journalism student at NYU,  blogged about one of her classes on new media “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers)” for Mediashift, a pbs andKnight foundation backed blog on digital media hosted by Mark Glaser.
The original post [...]

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Learning clouds

I’m currently working on a paper for the designs on e learning conference 2008 at Penn State university in September on blogs in post grad education in art and design. As part of this I’ve been thinking about what blogs can offer that other forms of reflective learning journals cannot. So I’ve been playng around [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

a starting point

As a media practitioner and educator I’m interested particularly in the ways that new media are transforming the landscape of how we source our information, knowledge and beliefs about the world. We are shifting from a passive stance of absorbing from fixed media like books and newspapers, and from the relatively traditional teaching methods of [...]