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 [...]

ECRM conference abstract

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

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 social media tools, such as [...]

ASCILITE 2008

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

It’s nice to be back in Melbourne for the ASCILITE Conference. It was so much more meaningful for me this year, as I have had nearly three months of ICT on-the-job training since Singapore, 2007. So much of the talk is relevant to our research project into personal learning environments and Web 2.0 enabled social [...]

I don’t want to talk about it.

Thursday, November 13th, 2008