“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”–Heraclitus (as quoted in A New Culture of Learning) When my son was young, his favourite place to be was the local river. Actually, it was little more than a creek. But for him it […]
In my “Assessment of Information Literacy” Research Methods class this week, we are looking at principles to be considered (and questions we need to ask ourselves) when we make long-term assessment plans, especially in higher education settings. One of the guiding documents we’re looking at is the American Association of Higher Education’s* “Nine Principles of […]
“Personal learning networks are the way that the world is going right now . . . We create our own spaces, we create our own environments, we find our own teachers . . . We participate in these places in some very different and potentially transformative ways.” (Will Richardson, 2007, “Personal Learning Networks”) Welcome to […]
About a week ago, I set a goal for myself: to select a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) and then play it for half an hour each day for five days. Now, that may seem ridiculous to those who’ve been playing such games for years and simply can’t imagine their worlds without them. But for […]
Okay . . . this could be A LOT of fun! (And I think I might learn something, too!)
The vision of learning that Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown share in A New Culture of Learning is so exciting, it makes you want to jump up and shout out to the world: “We can do this! Let’s shake things up! Let’s imagine! Let’s collaborate! Let’s create! Let’s play games!” That is, until you […]
As you can see from my last post, I didn’t present my context book report in media/multimedia format. But this was not for lack of trying. In fact, I spent several hours exploring different presentation tools (Animoto, Prezi, Slideshare, Powerpoint), and then many (many!) more starting a presentation in Windows Live Movie Maker, which seemed […]
