Learning mainly
= Finished my final workshop here this morning. Whew. Tried a new structure, which I found very very relaxing:
Needed to get the learning theory down to the basics for CoP thinking.
Used several mini presentations just like some of the Youtube videos: images to support a long quote. I packaged all the educational [...]
On Vygotsky, from The Chemical Education Research Group Lecture 2000
Sadly, as he is the new Piaget, his ideas will be seen as the new educational panacea, and will fail to match this, and will then be judged as having themselves failed. That is my prediction, in any case. If you are not familiar with the [...]
Keynote Three:Maret Staron
The message is that there is no one-way or no best model for working and learning in the Knowledge Era. We are challenged to think beyond the familiar and to recognise, value and celebrate ‘humanness’, while investing in the characteristics that define a learning and working ecology.
She quoted Martin Seligman’s work on optimism, [...]
I dialed up Bev’s blog yesterday in a workshop as an example of a blog with a range of different types of posts. I was reminded again of her practice of listing links. One post of links rather than a range of bloglet posts. here are all the miscellenous links from Wellngton.
Webstock Wellington. An example [...]
One: Sean McDougal: great story teller, 25 minutes of our small group time used up in a few questions, some of them well thought out, he used a remarkable small group activity much like that that we used in Portugal.
He reminded me a lot of one of my hero’s, Stephen Heppell, then when I Googled [...]
Efest. Have a workshop today with Leigh Blackall. Not quite finalised yet. Some facilitation tomorrow – 2 x 45, 2 x 30 minute sessions. Workshop on Wednesday.
Keynote 1: Terry Barnett, Kerene Strochnetter NorthTec
A relaxing and enjoyable presentation. . . movies, Google maps
Nice greeting from NorthTec Tangata Whenua. Still
“Had a [...]
Provide a structure for your story, scenes, chapters, numbering etc etc.
Then write.
Then, when you need to: see things in overview, detail, structural, character, scenes etc.
Repeat 2 and 3.
When you have finished, export it to your DTP program.
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
One of the sessions we had at the Setubal dialogue was on the question “Does Community need a place?”
Which actually leads onto the question what is a place. My answer at the moment is yes: and place is broadly defined.
I noticed this quote today:
Learning in Clubs that Meet in Physical Places
Educational psychologist Frank Smith made [...]
Every now and then I get to do some things that are more fun than usual. Two workshops this year at e-fest.
Creative online facilitation for formal taught courses in the new age of blogs, wikis and RSS With Leigh Blackall
Communities of Practice 2.0: now we have Web 2.0 tools, what has changed for distributed [...]
We had survived THEKA on Friday and Saturday. We got home late on Saturday to a Portuguese style banquet provided by Rogerio, our caterer. There was no doubt about it, we were both tired and stimulated. Sunday was a dialogue day. EQUAL, on Monday was a quite different enterprise. How [...]