I really enjoyed the post by Brendan Murphy on rhizomatic learning. He talked about deep learning and how to encourage that both for himself as a learner, but also for his students.
I am experimenting with a variety of tools – feeling a bit like a groundhog – popping up to read and get ideas and then back in my burrow to experiment. Maybe rhizomatic learning for me is also “groundhog learning”
I played a bit with Haiku Deck, a free presentation tool for ipads. It was not quite what I expected – more of a visual powerpoint for ipads. It exports as a powerpoint so I had to turn my 6 word story into an image
I visited Susan Angel’s blog. She inspires with her incredible visual sense. My quick attempt at an animated gif using Gimp can be seen below.
What you don’t see is the back story – this was part of a concert – with the two in the back singing an aria. I’m thinking hard about how I want to create a meaningful story – what tool would work best for it and why – about a place that changed my life.
I enjoyed Darren Kuropatwa’s session today and really appreciated his parting words – that the most important thing is the story. It doesn’t matter how many bells and whistles we add – a story without substance is a bad story.
I also think that this is about scaffolding. When students are young, we introduce fewer tools. But as part of the process we talk about why the tools are good for certain things – developing a critical sense in students. Later students need to have more leeway to select the tools that best fit their needs and be able to justify why they chose a specific tool.”