Jan

16

Open and blended histories

January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Thanks to Stephen Downes, yet again, for pointing out Terry Anderson’s excellent piece on Open, distance, e-learning and other name confusion in his always useful Virtual Canuk blog. As Terry noted there has been a lot written on the subject. I was reminded of two pieces of work.
Robin Mason and Frank Rennie recently produced an [...]

Jan

9

So there is an eportfolio movement, and it faces issues

January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This is the transcript of a roundtable session that joined LaGuardia College faculty with internationally recognized ePortfolio leaders, Helen Barrett and Darren Cambridge to discuss the issues facing the ePortfolio movement.

Jan

9

A digital identity question for parents

January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

An interesting question is raised by a Design Pattern problem, Others First, identified by Yishay Mor in the Pattern Language Network wiki:
Parents who create an online identity for themselves that includes any images of and text about their children inevitably create an online identity for those children. The children have no control over how they [...]

Jan

8

Immersive interfaces for learning

January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Another very useful Berkman talk on Immersive Interfaces by Chris Dede, Timothy E Wirth professor of Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Dede develops a typology of immersive interfaces and illustrates their application in US middle schools. Even more usefully he presents a simple analytical framework for discussing immersive environments for learning: [...]

Jan

8

JISC Support, Synthesis & Benefits Realisation plan agreed

January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Milestones and all that: JISC programme managers, today, agreed the Institutional Innovation Programme, Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation Project plan. Hurrah!

Jan

6

Epigenetic phenomena

January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Thanks and a(nother) tippo to A J Cann for the link (via his soti bookmarks on delicious) to D’arcy Norman’s epigenetics and the institution. This hit me as an approach to conceptualising the relationship between individuals and institutions for a paper I am puzzling over writing, about the utility of participatory media (Web2.0/the social internet) [...]

Jan

5

Participatory media literacy: it does matter

January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This post is one small link in a chain started for me by A J Cann in a post on his Emerge blog, The P word, fed from Science of the Invisible that linked to Michael Wesch’s post, Participatory Media Literacy: why it matters, referring to “… Howard Rheingold’s great little article, Participative Pedagogy for [...]

Jan

5

Feeding the Elgg

January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Since my exchange with A J Cann, about feeding selected posts to the Emerge site, I have started this blog. In it, I have created a number of categories for my posts, such as “Community IT Centre”, and “R&D Projects” and “Emerge”. I wanted to be able to select only those posts that were tagged [...]

Jan

3

Digital literacy: a starter guide for HE?

January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I read Josie Fraser’s, Notes towards digital literacy, and Terry Wassal’s recent comment on it with interest. This post has stimulated a lot of discussion in the comments and on other blogs. When thinking about the Brookes elearning strategy, I recently took an opposite, narrow view. I do not want to argue against the broad [...]

Jan

1

Academia.edu, eportfolio/PLE PDR and identity

January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Spent the morning acquainting myself with some of the features of academia.edu. My (limited) profile is here. In the publish or perish tradition there is a facility to upload citations for your papers and conference “talks” and list your research interests but there is no facility to list the courses you teach. Clearly a site [...]