David White’s description of the way in which people use the internet as being like the behaviours of visitors or residents has captured my interest this week. A link to his blog and his video were posted in a CCK09 forum this week. Roy in his post – Thursday, 22 October 2009, 05:29 AM – has [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Visitors and residents
Posted in CCK09, eLearning, tagged CCK09, digital immigrant, digital native, eLearning, pedagogy, prensky, resident, teaching, technology, visitor, white on October 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Research and dissemination
Posted in CCK08, CCK09, Research, tagged CCK08, CCK09, Research on October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In another meeting this week there was discussion about whether it was worth the time trying to publish in academic journals. A project I am working with at the moment has to meet a requirement to disseminate their work and developments. For academics, publication in an academic journal is not only important for personal advancement and [...]
140 characters
Posted in Blogging, tagged blogging, blogs, connections, emails, twitter on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I was in a meeting where a colleague said ‘If a post can’t be written in 140 characters it’s not worth writing’ or words to that effect. It might have been ‘not worth reading’. Shock horror! Where does this leave a slow, slow blogger, a person who always has to pause before thinking, a [...]
Group think
Posted in CCK08, CCK09, tagged CCK08, CCK09, groups, learning on October 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My online PGCert group (for which I am a facilitator) is currently studying a module on the emotional intelligence of teams. Had I not worked on the connectivism course in 2008, I might not have even thought to question whether working in teams/groups is a good idea and also whether working in teams/groups leads to group think [...]
CCK08 Research Papers
Posted in CCK08, CCK09, Research, tagged blogs, CCK08, CCK09, Connectivism, forums, Research on October 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We – Sui Fai John Mak, Roy Williams and I - have finally completed work on 2 research papers following our participation in CCK08.
Blogs and Forums as Communication and Learning Tools in a MOOC
The ideals and Reality of Participating in a MOOC
On November 13th we will submit these papers to the Networked Learning Conference Steering Committee [...]
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