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 [...]

Christmas past

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Life in a jar

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

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 my subjective experience.
But sometimes [...]

Be who you want to be

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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 that somehow, subliminally caused me [...]