About 116 people registered to attend the Alpine Rendezvous this year – 10 workshops, almost every country in Europe represented and several attendees from outside Europe. Report from Workshop 1: Orchestration How do teachers orchestrate events inside and outside the classroom? First model – started with a very dry mathematical model. How does the teacher […]
Another set of notes from Handheld Learning finally making it into my blog. This is from a talk by James Clay. He argues that Twitter is about the community having coffee together and having a conversation. Like coffee-break chat, it’s a stream you dip into and it’s a leveller that can improve efficeincy within an […]
Interesting post on issues relating to SocialLearn by Scott Leslie in his EdTech blog. These are his sub-heads: Planning to Share versus Just Sharing We grow our network by sharing, they start their network by setting up initial agreements We share what we share, they want to share what they often don’t have (or even […]
My original proposal for my PhD was about virtual international communities in primary schools. Why? Well, apart from the excellent, and convincing, reasons I gave at my initial interview, it was what I thought I was most likely to be accepted for. With a 25-year-old degree in English, and a 20-year-old masters in history I […]
Well, I’m working on my literature review, so I’m bound to tinker with my research questions, aren’t I? Also, an initial pass over my data showed me that if I just look at the skills and resources that people use to learn together online, I’m going to end up with a list. And not a […]
I’ve run into a real problem with the idea of ‘comunity of practice’. What is the difference between a CoP and a community? Lots of people just take the CoP idea as is, and run with it. People who critique the ideas seem to do so in terms of thinking the model through – do […]
I keep losing this, and I keep needing it. Forms of learning in a psychologists’ community of practice: They learn about psychologists’ resources and how to access these They learn the skills which are required of a psychologist They learn how to behave as a psychologist They learn how to think like a psychologist. They […]
This is an extract from my supervision minutes from last December. It contains a lot of points which are important to the development of my research, so I’ve put it here to remind me of these. Examine the resources used by students – local resources and broader social resources – and at how they use […]
Emergence v design – a case study of an emergent community of practice in a blended learning community in postgraduate education Tim Savage, Trinity College, Dublin. https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Tim.Savage/scholar.htm Once again, very relevant to me. I’m particularly interested in the idea of a blended community which brings together the online and the F2F, strengthening both. Tim used […]
Interviewing Gill via email reminded me, indirectly, that I ought to blog about the DZX222 tutor day at the beginning of the month. Some of the points raised included: the virtual sumer school is not a break from everyday life for students like a residential school. Students may feel isolated and vulnerable to both doubt […]