For as long as I can remember I’ve made up games for moments of unavoidable boredom – or total overload. My favourite has always been the repeat-words-to-yourself-until-they-make-no-sense game. I still play that sometimes. It’s particularly nice if I’ve got a willing partner somewhere we can repeat the word out loud and make the game an almost-musical thing. There’s also the [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Un-making sense (a box is a box is a box)
Posted in Boundaries, Dialogue, openness, tagged meaning on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ethics and technology for practitioners
Posted in Dialogue, eLearning, privacy on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The topic of this pilot is quite relevant to everything I’ve been thinking about, really, so I couldn’t have been luckier than having managed to get John (Monk) involved in this work. He tells a fascinating ‘story’ about the actual work of engineers that’s not your run-of-the-mill take: ‘engineers are in the business of persuading’ (see this text, for [...]
Pilot Learning Projects: rationale
Posted in Boundaries, Dialogue, Location, eLearning, open educational resources, research method on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In previous posts I’ve included a couple of hints that I’ve been working with a colleague on a project in the area of ‘ethics’, so I thought I’d finally have a go at explaining what this is about (a necessary exercise for me at this point). So, here goes.
As it stands at the moment, part of my [...]
Doughnuts for the Emperor
Posted in Boundaries, eLearning, open educational resources, tagged online informal learning on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my research is concerned with the OpenLearn (LearningSpace) forums, and I’m having a hard time putting together a ‘story’ on that. This is no news for the project team, with ‘low participation’ having been raised repeatedly as a ‘problem’ requiring ‘action’. When I put forward the COLMSCT proposal I had in mind a few [...]
And on the same subject …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender stereotyping, remake on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I splashed out in a DVD store and bought the collection of all available (in the UK) episodes of the new incarnation of Battlestar Galactica. As a (not-gender-stereotyped) teenager I awaited eagerly for the weekly instalments of the original series. Granted, the original now looks dated etc., but it’s the remake that I’m now following, [...]
Cheese, glorious cheese
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged informal learning, gender stereotyping on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my sisters, with whom I chat regularly online, sent me yesterday a link to a site with online games for 11-14 year olds. ‘That’s it’, I thought. I won’t copy the link here lest I should be liable to prosecution, but, really, when are we going to get rid of this ‘games for [...]
Lost in translation? Unfinished thoughts on the PRATLe talks (28 Feb)
Posted in Boundaries, Dialogue, Location, tagged collaboration, communication across borders, cross-disciplinarity, informal learning, interdisciplinarity, multi-disciplinarity, transforming perspectives on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Pedagogical Research into Aspects of Teaching and Learning (PRATLe) Series at the OU’s COLMSCT kicked off on the 28th February with a couple of very interesting talks. I thought it would be interesting to post here some of my thoughts on the day. I’m using bold to highlight what I thought were the main themes.
Anne Adams, the [...]
Essential material?
Posted in Academic literature, Definitions, eLearning, tagged informal education, informal learning, non-formal learning on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve finally managed to finish my ‘first reading’ of some of the vast literature (including also blogs and other Web materials) I’ve collected on the topic of ‘informal learning’, so I thought I’d post here a shortlist. Ideally I’d be posting short reviews as well, but I can’t promise that (simply because time is ‘well short’ at [...]
On the subject …
Posted in Analogies, Definitions, Dialogue, tagged remaking remixing on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
of movies, mainstream movies seem to be capitalising on the Web 2.0 idea away from the Web. Be kind, rewind is on my plans for the weekend. My daughter wasn’t impressed that it has been reported as a tremendous failure – good on her, I say, even though I had a hard time trying to explain to [...]
