May

14

Flourish: PebblePad Technology for professional development #HEAtpd

May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Sarah Chesney discusses the aims, ethos, key activities and the PS portfolio developed under the Flourish project. Evaluating the use of an eportfolio for CPD for admin and academic staff. Used to ease the admin burden and provide personal learning system (PLE?), within which is an eportfolio.
Academic model practice before students.
Over reliance on email and [...]

Mar

31

tonight we suspended the Emerge Elgg service

March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment

After a long deliberation we decided that the Emerge Elgg site should not continue to operate in its current form.
From midnight 31 March/1 April 2009 we discontinued log-in to the Emerge Elgg site and suspended all feeds into the site.
I would like to thank all who have been instrumental in creating a vision a community [...]

Mar

26

Is there evidence of the use of Web2.0 to do deep learning?

March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It is sometimes asserted that while students are using web 2 tools extensively there is no evidence that they are using them to do deep learning. I believe this assertion should be questioned.

Mar

24

An Ada Lovelace legacy: women in (learning) techonolgy

March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are many women in technology I admire. My field: learning technology is characterised, in part, by many female leaders. I think of Diana Laurillard, Grainne Conole (jfg them); colleagues: Rhona Sharpe, Patsy Clarke, Frances Deepwell, Judy Lyons in OCSLD; there’s Helen Beetham, Helen Barrett, Rose Luckin, Diana Oblinger; Robin Mason, who defined a practice [...]

Mar

11

#NGTiP09 embedding institutional change guidelines from @Gwenvdv

March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Embedding needs building. Building needs scaffolding.
Gwen van der Velden recognises that change agents operate in networks of influence.
To make change you need:
- buy-in
- user engagement
- institutional solutions
- patronage
- a user-friendly pitch
- reputation-awareness.
Barriers to change include: student data systems, middle managers, staff learning needs.
Drivers for embracing technology: students, resource constraints, employers.
So answer these questions:
- What is [...]

Mar

10

using eportfolio for HE staff CPD and Professional Review – with a Flourish

March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Flourish project:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/usersandinnovation/flourish.aspx
Flourish, funded by the JISC, looked at eportfolio for HE staff in annual appraisal, accredited PGCert in Teaching in HE course, and CPD/Training. They used PebblePad in a “low-risk” environment running workshops, elearning retreats, staff information sharing channels, and using it with students.
The key message is if you want to use an eP [...]

Feb

19

Emerge team writing retreat

February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I have set up a place to post our stuff from the writing retreat (I know, I know, another b***** site). Bear with me
We do not have a projector but most of us have machines, I thought this might work as a whiteboard. I have not made the site private – yet. But we can.
http://emerge.posterous.com
Suggested [...]

Feb

9

Posterous has closed the camera, phone, Flickr loop for me

February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I was mildly annoyed (a usual state for me) a year or three ago when Ericsson bundled Blogger in the firmware of their good camera phones. I didn’t want to set up a Blogger ID, all I wanted to do was post to Flickr. For a while I tried to use Shozu (http://www.shozu.com/portal/index.do), but its [...]

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: [...]

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