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The Reality of the Networked Learning Conference
The Ideals and Reality of Participating in a Conference ( a personal perspective) This week I have presented for the very first time (with Roy Williams) a paper at a conference (the Networked Learning...
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Too much choice
I am still reflecting on my experience at the Networked Learning Conference and it has been heartening to receive supportive comments here on this blog, in emails and f2f. The conference in Birmingham...
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Academic credibility
In recent days, and as a result of ongoing conversation, both on and offline, in the light of my experience at the Networked Learning Conference, I have been thinking a lot about the implications of...
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Ethics and the Learner Voice
With increasing research into the learner experience comes increasing need to consider the ethics of this type of research. The only two questions we received about the two papers we presented at the...
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The Critical Literacies Divide
It’s not good to take 10 days out of the middle of a course – especially if you travel to the other side of the world and enter what feels like ‘a different universe’. Or maybe it is good – as a...
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Follow-up on Networked Learning Conference Presentation
Following the presentation of our paper to the Networked Learning Conference 2010, George Siemens has invited us to discuss this further in an Elluminate session, this Friday – July 2nd 11:00 in...
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Some notes on connectivism
In preparation for the Networked Learning Conference 2010 presentation, I considered the question, ‘Is connectivism a theory’? This was discussed in depth in CCK08 and I seem to remember the discussion...
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Elluminate v. Networked Learning Conference
Heli has made yet another interesting post in her blog reflecting on the CCK08 experience following our Elluminate session yesterday in which George Siemens kindly invited us to share our research...
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#PLENK2010 Research, technology and networks
The guest speaker for the second week of the PLENK course has been Martin Weller – what a treat! The link to the recording of his Elluminate presentation is here Basically – his talk was about how...
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Engestrom, Wenger and Emergent Learning
In a recent great discussion in CPsquare about the changing role of the learning facilitator, Brenda Kaulback posted this video of Yrjo Engestrom being interviewed about his work by Chris Jones This...
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Edusemiotics, the Divided Brain and Connectivism
I have recently been exploring Iain McGilchrist’s ground-breaking work on the divided brain (see The Master and his Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World), with a view to...
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Attending to the invisible ‘Other’
Attention is how we relate to the world and what we attend to determines what we see. At this stage in my life I am interested in how I can ensure that what I choose to attend to doesn’t blinker me to...
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