http://jocene.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:53:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2009/03/02/a-pedagogical-myth/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzen3TiXow8 http://jocene.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/mixxxies-screentest/ 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 ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2009/02/02/ples-partial-learning-environments/ 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 ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2009/01/29/implementing-ples-like-we-are-supposed-to/ 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 ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2009/01/07/sad-little-blog/ http://jocene.edublogs.org/2009/01/01/67/ The following is an abstract for the ERCM Conference next year. I need to put this in my blog so I can link to it in my electronic application, and therefore retain the formatting - yeiks! (Secret and password protected) Diary of a Web 2.0 Novice – A Subtextual Phenomenon.   Web 2.0 ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2008/12/22/ecrm-conference-abstract/ 22nd December, 2008. Philosophers such as Whitehead have argued that life is a process. Nothing stands still – except sometimes in my mind when I recall, not the event, but a memory of it. Like some drag-queen  parody,  a distorted reality, that changes its disguise to suit my fancy. This is ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2008/12/21/life-in-a-jar/ We place a lot of importance on what others think. We win degrees, awards and self-esteem through the opinions (or whims, or prejudices) of our esteemed judges. But how do they know? In an early blog,  David Jones http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/page/4/ referred to an article by Cronholm and Goldkuhl about strategies for information systems ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/hows-that/ I would just like to mention that I bought a hat last week, from one of those trendy surf shops, that I would never normally go in to. The hat was handed to me in a colourful bag, branded with Billabong's slogan: "Be who you want to be." Was it that marketing innovation ... http://jocene.edublogs.org/2008/12/11/be-who-you-want-to-be/