I had something to say, but did not know exactly where it should go.
Today I sat in in a session on Reflective practice for teachers. This could help online facilitation learning. Some sort of cycle. Maybe reflection > action > observe/reflect on outcome > adjust/learn > . . . .
Easy to say. :-)
Derek Chirnside
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Decided to start a new thread, since where else do you say farewell at the end of a workshop?? I think I have never managed to finish my thinking in line with the end of a SCoPE workshop before, and this is the same. It's been a nice month, if a little hard to keep up most weeks.
I still smile at the word of the month: Blurk. I had never heard of this before.
I have learned a lot about blogging tools, it is odd the several I read for specific friends - fragments from past interactions - just never really featured. (Xanga, Multiply and Vox) It really came down to elgg and Livejournal and blogmeister.
I learned a bit about accessibility. Had a look at some computers near my office set up for this purpose. (I had never given this a thought B4)
I know there were a couple (or more) of questions we have not answered, but that's life. One about WebCT/Bb. I'm just not going to bother with blogs inside WebCT/Bb - they need some work to bring them up to spec to be even able to deserve the label blog.
How have we done? This is important to me - Have we managed to put blogs under the microscope and dissect them and still leave the specialness of this medium intact, and not loose it's life and creativity? Yes, in my opinion. But we are still very much in the infancy of understanding the effect of this new environment. Sylvia, I suggest a Blogs II "Have we made any progress with Blogs in the last year?" in 12 months.
The metaphors are all there: fires, incubation, hotbeds, creative . .
Thanks Micheal, you have worked hard I can tell. I've enjoyed meeting your students. And all the rest of you.
-Derek
I still smile at the word of the month: Blurk. I had never heard of this before.
blurk : A lurker on a blog. (n)
To lurk and read a blog, but not comment (v)
I blurk on Dooce, but I am too shy to comment.
by pony Mar 21, 2005 email
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blurk
To lurk and read a blog, but not comment (v)
I blurk on Dooce, but I am too shy to comment.
by pony Mar 21, 2005 email
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blurk
I have learned a lot about blogging tools, it is odd the several I read for specific friends - fragments from past interactions - just never really featured. (Xanga, Multiply and Vox) It really came down to elgg and Livejournal and blogmeister.
I learned a bit about accessibility. Had a look at some computers near my office set up for this purpose. (I had never given this a thought B4)
I know there were a couple (or more) of questions we have not answered, but that's life. One about WebCT/Bb. I'm just not going to bother with blogs inside WebCT/Bb - they need some work to bring them up to spec to be even able to deserve the label blog.
How have we done? This is important to me - Have we managed to put blogs under the microscope and dissect them and still leave the specialness of this medium intact, and not loose it's life and creativity? Yes, in my opinion. But we are still very much in the infancy of understanding the effect of this new environment. Sylvia, I suggest a Blogs II "Have we made any progress with Blogs in the last year?" in 12 months.
The metaphors are all there: fires, incubation, hotbeds, creative . .
Thanks Micheal, you have worked hard I can tell. I've enjoyed meeting your students. And all the rest of you.
-Derek
Hey thanks George and Paul . . .
I enjoyed the hour online, this is just a few comments to debrief my mind before I'm off to enjoy the rest of the day.
I was a bit overwhelmed with the sudden flurry into the high level theory/theories of learning. Even the concepts behind constructivism need to be revisited often. And I forget!!
I found Bill's blog, and these lists of knowledge:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-should-schools-teach.html
I quote:
I have yet to think what I think about this pair of lists. Is it a useful lne of enquiry? Too simple? Tools like wikis and blogs affect us so much - some have strong elements of the hard. Really hard. Try to manage delicious, firefox, a threaded discussion and an RSS feed and you will know what I mean.
As I said, I liked the diagrams in George's book . . [are they a language?] The question usually arises in my mind: OK, what now? In an organisation/network, how do we exist, live, relate? - say wearing hats such as teachers, or learners, or administrators.
This is my personal preoccupation here. I sometimes exist in a huge organisation of people. How should I live?
I find again the huge value of a short synchronous sessions, and enjoyed things, fragmentary as they were at times. My kids were making coffee down the corridoor for $2, $4 with cake. Bruce next door is currently writing the worlds best chat and came in to look. Why, Oh why does Elluminate have only such a micrioscopic input window????? We are building in a form of quoting and threading to try to avoid the intertwined nature of usual chat.
I have more to say, but duty calls. Have a nice day/night everyone.
I enjoyed the hour online, this is just a few comments to debrief my mind before I'm off to enjoy the rest of the day.
I was a bit overwhelmed with the sudden flurry into the high level theory/theories of learning. Even the concepts behind constructivism need to be revisited often. And I forget!!
I found Bill's blog, and these lists of knowledge:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-should-schools-teach.html
I quote:
From anthropological research of over 3000 human cultures, he presented two lists, the first were universals, the things that all human cultures have in common. This list included things like:
- language
- communication
- fantasies
- stories
- tools and art
- superstition
- religion and magic
- play and games
- differences over similarities (?)
- quick reactions to patterns
- vendetta, and more
He then presented a list of non universals, the things that humans find harder to learn. This list was shorter and included:
- reading and writing
- deductive abstract mathematics
- model based science
- equal rights
- democracy
- perspective drawing
- theory of harmony (?)
- similarities over differences (?)
- slow deep thinking
- agriculture
- legal systems
Schools ought to be mainly about learning the hard to learn things.
I have yet to think what I think about this pair of lists. Is it a useful lne of enquiry? Too simple? Tools like wikis and blogs affect us so much - some have strong elements of the hard. Really hard. Try to manage delicious, firefox, a threaded discussion and an RSS feed and you will know what I mean.
As I said, I liked the diagrams in George's book . . [are they a language?] The question usually arises in my mind: OK, what now? In an organisation/network, how do we exist, live, relate? - say wearing hats such as teachers, or learners, or administrators.
This is my personal preoccupation here. I sometimes exist in a huge organisation of people. How should I live?
I find again the huge value of a short synchronous sessions, and enjoyed things, fragmentary as they were at times. My kids were making coffee down the corridoor for $2, $4 with cake. Bruce next door is currently writing the worlds best chat and came in to look. Why, Oh why does Elluminate have only such a micrioscopic input window????? We are building in a form of quoting and threading to try to avoid the intertwined nature of usual chat.
I have more to say, but duty calls. Have a nice day/night everyone.
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