Jenny Mackness

Now that we have reached the end of this seminar, just to say a big thank you to all who have posted to the forums, attended the webinars and contributed a footprint. The discussion has been highly stimulating and we feel we have learned a lot from the experience and from you all.

Sylvia has said that it may be possible to copy all the dicussion posts over to our special interest group space - http://scope.bccampus.ca/course/view.php?id=380 - which will make a great archive.

We are particularly interested to follow up on some of the criticisms we have received - see for example this blog post - http://danegeld.dk/2013/12/04/capturing-learning-experience-footprints-emergence/ - and comments in the forums from Nick Kearney - and see what we can do to make the process of drawing footprints more intuitive. That should be an interesting challenge for the coming months :-)

A big thank you also to Sylvia for all her help and support, which is very much appreciated - and hoping that we will all be able to continue our discussions in one way or another.

Helen has provided me with more information about her footprint today - which I have added to our wiki - see

http://footprints-of-emergence.wikispaces.com/Exploring+Personal+Learning+Networks+-+Helen+Crump

Now that we are getting to the end of our time here, I would like to start copying all the footprints across to the wiki. If you have any objections to me doing this, please could you let me know.

Many thanks to all for your footprints. It has been fascinating to see them.

Helen attended the webinars and has drawn a footprint of her experience of the Exploring Personal Learning Networks online seminar. She has blogged about it here - and I have copied her footprint below.

Only if you are competitive ;-)

Hi Scott - 

> Comparing mine to Lisa's and Japp's prints reveals as much about the polarized, all-or-nothing way I think

For me, this is a great sentence, because it is evidence that the footprints are not just a course evaluation tool; they support reflection and surface tacit knowledge and understanding. 

> emergence is actually a new understanding that is amazingly or unexpectedly complete

And - yes - this is exactly how I see it.

Thanks for your comments.