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A pedagogical myth

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

http://www.gardencom.com/freepics  2nd March, 09

I have been browsing for inspiration. Web 2.0, or participatory media as I prefer to call it today, in itself is inspirational. My new hobby is puppeteering my Second Life avatar. I need to be able to manipulate her movements better, and I would like a more extensive repertoire of “gestures”, but [...]

Mixxxie’s screentest

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzen3TiXow8

PLEs – Partial Learning Environments?

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

My research colleague : http://nfhood.wordpress.com/ and I continue to be amazed at how much of the dialogue surrounding PLEs ends with the question, “So what is a PLE?”.
We decided early on that we must bind our research to the technological aspects of PLEs. We know that in any broad sense, one’s personal learning environment consists of non-e [...]

Implementing PLEs like we are supposed to.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

There has been so much talk about PLEs but very little committed action from those of us who ponder its pedagogical potentials. Graham Atwell’s Slideshare presentation –
http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/personal-learning-enviroments-the-future-of-education-presentation?type=presentation
 
is interesting and insightful, until the concluding questions: What is a PLE? and What can we do with a PLE?  Arrrg!. We thought for a moment there that some [...]

sad little blog

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Death, taxes and change. I am adjusting to the restructure. The workplace has been fragmented.
I don’t need extrinsic motivators, but in this new position (that I’ve been going on about all through the life of this blog), which takes me way out of my depth, it was nice to be able to reach out and [...]