In preparation for this week’s etmooc exploration of “The Open Movement”, I have been viewing Alan Levine‘s repository of “True Stories of Openness” . I am inspired by the stories shared – how little things (an idea, a discussion, a tweet, a connection) occured through the willingness to share online, took root and blossomed into something bigger – something positive – in someone’s teaching, or thinking, or doing.…
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Loading...I am a bit of a frustrated learner these days. There are so many great learning opportunities available in the areas that interest me and I just don’t have the time to take advantage of them. I wish I could participate in all the amazing #ETMOOC sessions or read the articles available through MIT’s Learning Creative Learning course, but that is just not my reality. …
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“Beyond access and cost: a primary benefit of open education insofar as it is not merely open but opening, is the opportunity for networked transcontextualism. A planetary double-take.”
Gardner Campbell, Open Ed’12
Very unlike myself (a prolific starter and a rather feeble finisher) I managed to submit my digital artefact for “final assessment” in the #edcmooc.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been excited to share my thoughts on digital literacies for #ETMOOC, but I’ve had trouble thinking through the questions and framing them in my own experiences. It’s one thing — and a relatively easy one, at that — to restate the communis opinio on “digital literacy”, but it’s been quite another thing to write down my own take on what the term means to me.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Intenzionata a riproporre il primo post, 8 marzo 2010, di questo mio blog, costituito da un video e dal testo della canzone Povera Patria di Franco Battiato (1991), con l’intento di portare l’attenzione sulle vicende italiane del momento, sono andata a recuperare il link dell’articolo trovandovi una sorpresa; eccola.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I came across this video and realized just how fast this push for educational technology is moving and I am so glad to be a part of it.
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King of the Hill…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The past two weeks have been busy, I have:
Ran the study skills website with a group of L1 Engineering students
Attend a conference at the University of Salford on ‘Re-thinking education for the digital era‘
Wrote a workshop proposal for JISC RSC YH Summer Conference 2013
Tested potential new hardware for the role out of audio recording tutorials
Been introduced to xtLearn which is a visual bookmarking tool
Submitted my first assignment for the degree that I am studying in computing, IT and design
Attended a day school on the basics of computer programming
Accepted the offer to resume the MSc n Multimedia and E-learning next year
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I was very excited to sign up for etmooc and totally unprepared for how reluctant I was to post anything online. I set my blog up fully expecting that I would have my intro done in no time and being adding to it regularly.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The previous post was a rumination about what a digital story is. The question raised was similar to the question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no animal, including humans, is there to hear it, does the fall make a sound?”…
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