here is my profile statement for my pg cert
Sharing Knowledge: Building a Community of Practice at Post Graduate level.
Knowledge is dynamic. Knowledge is not static. It is continually in motion. (Wenger, McDermott & Snyder, 2002 p10)
The PG Cert has given me the incentive to further explore areas of pedagogic theory and how that might be [...]
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 [...]
I’m not the first and certainly wont be the last, but this blog took a back seat for a long time as i was just so busy with work
but now it is coming back to life again for 2 very specific reasons, one that i have just stated a pg cert in teaching and learning [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
is to help stop extreme drug resistant TB see XDRTB for more details
Demos has this on their website
James Nachtwey has taken pictures of a major health issue effecting countries across the whole globe. With the support of the TED conference (you probably know thewebsite) he is breaking these images in a series of public projections and events around the world. The images will be unveiled in London on the fly-tower of The National [...]
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 [...]
Michael Wesch is a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State university, and something of a guru when it comes to web 2.0 and education. The video he made collectively with his class of 200 anthropology students using a wiki approach, ‘a vision of students today’ seems to be shown at every e learning conference [...]
