At the start of half term I travelled to Bangor for the ‘Creating Second Lives’ conference. It was a relatively small conference, but had participants from NZ, the US and Scandinavia among others. I was impressed by how quickly research into Second Life has moved on. A year ago I was watching very basic presentations […]
Why do conferences give out style sheets for papers, impose word lengths, demand specific referencing styles but never ever give people any guidance about producing a good Powerpoint? How is it that intelligent people sit through Powerpoint presentation after Powerpoint presentation without ever deducing some of the principles of good design and good presentation? * […]
Content analysis of computer conferencing transcripts – which one should I use? Roisin Donnelly, B Holmes, J Gardner http://ltc.dit.ie/roisindonnelly.html to come!
Juxtaposing the personal and the institutional: how, where, when and why do undergraduate students communicate and collaborate online? Sue Timmis, S Barnes and James Gilligan, University of the West of England http://wun.ac.uk/view.php?id=220 (contact rather than web link) Sue and the others had used activity theory to look at how undergraduates communicate online. They found a […]
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 […]
OK – biting the bullet. I CAN read through my conference notes. I DO want to blog about this – especially the first presentation, which was so relevant to my work. Taking a stance: promoting deliberate action through online postgraduate professional development Peter Kelly, K Gale, S Wheeler and V Tucker, University of Plymouth See […]
So, what did I go to? Monday Noon-1pm Taking a stance: promoting deliberate action through online postgraduate professional development Peter Kelly, K Gale, S Wheeler and V Tucker, University of Plymouth Emergence v design – a case study of an emergent community of practice in a blended learning community in postgraduate education Tim Savage, Trinity […]
I would have preferred to blog about CAL as it was in progress, but the 20-minute slots were not ideal for reflection – they often seemed like a breakneck rush through the subject, sometimes with no time for questions. When I didn’t want to stick with the same strand for an hour, they meant packing […]
The lighting is strange in this lecture theatre. We all sit in dim lighting, which is fair enough so that we can see the screen, but it means that the presenter is ill lit. It privileges the screen over the speaker, which seems the wrong way round to me. Andreia has an activity theory triangle […]