I normally tend to take things more seriously than I should, and since I started reading Foucault a few years back (eternally work in progress, this is), especially this book and the whole discussion around the notion of panopticon, I can’t help but think about ‘privacy’ and ‘openness’ from a rather sombre perspective.
Although I can understand the controversy going [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Blog that!
Posted in About blogging, Dialogue, Foucault, open educational resources, openness, privacy on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Independent sources
Posted in open educational resources on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just spotted this post in a related blog (now added to the roll!). It’s consistent with the latest intelligence from the project team, but it’s always good to hear it from another source.
Mimesis?
Posted in Analogies, eLearning on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This may look a bit old :-) but I only spotted it this morning – actually a colleague showed me a printout he had annotated (‘half asleep’, he said) on the train from London.
Yes, there I go with another musing-over-a-conversation-with-a-colleague…
The thing was: we both seem to be quite sceptical of some of the rhetoric associated with this idea [...]
Opposites at work
Posted in About blogging on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Third post in a day … is this a case of everything-but-writing-that-report? In part, I guess.
But this is turning out interesting, after all. I think I’m starting to understand a bit about the blogging idea, and I’m finding a lot around that is simply fascinating, so whilst procrastinating I’m still moving somehow – in a [...]
What is informal learning?
Posted in Definitions on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is Jay Cross talking about this – found it through this site, which I left wishing I hadn’t almost entirely forgotten my German
Dimensions, spaces, boundaries
Posted in Definitions on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been digging around for literature on ‘informal learning’ and, of course, there is too much for comfort, meaning, a full desk, an out-of-order collection of links and a long wish list of books. I’m still looking for a way of framing the lot – it’s a pragmatic move I have to make even though I’m painfully aware [...]
Girls, dolls and ladies: learning over breakfast
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love conversations, generally, and I particularly love conversations over food. It doesn’t have to be a lavish meal when a simple toast with butter and honey can be so delightful. It doesn’t have to be an ‘academic’ conversation when there are so many interesting things happening all the time, everywhere, right under one’s nose [...]
Is this going somewhere?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three months into this blogging business and a handful of posts, so very little to show for … (erm … very little time spent writing here, to begin with). Perhaps I should rename this ‘another-site-for-idea-dumping’, in this case, a bunch of things I’d probably never write ‘academically’. And just this morning it came up in [...]
Emotions
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I attended a marvellous talk by a colleague who has been working in the area of ethics in technology and engineering. I should have more things to say about a joint project in the near future (the project is going ahead, it’s just that I still don’t have much to say …), but, for [...]
What about the teacher?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I had two great conversations with a couple of colleagues, and, to cut a long story short, I was left with a few heartfelt comments to think about: ‘Learning without a teacher is difficult, often impossible’. ‘It would have taken me a week rather than six months if I had been given some [...]
