Challenges ahead.

Oh, how I wish I had the time and money to have gone to the icelf conference. Good that Chris and Muks presented.
Steve Wheeler is absolutely onto it.
The below link to one of his blogs (he is prolific) is a real short sharp punch to the solar plexus.
A convenient untruth
Is this the area of research I wish to expand upon? Do I take stock next year with an educational portfolio to gain the GDipHE qualification and then look at the Masters.
It will give me a year to really look at where I can be effective within the VET learning and Teaching environment.
I need to reflect on What "I" believe. I need to consolidate these beliefs. Then I need to plan action research that will be fulfilling to me personally and hopefully help educationally in general.

Learning style tests etc...

http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/

http://www.howtolearn.com/learning-styles-quiz

http://www.acceleratedlearning.com/adult/index.html

http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html

Seeing my experiences through new eyes.

It is a singularly profound and insightful experience for me to now, to be able to view an outline /overview of my learning within the context of the group events studied for deeper outcomes.


http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2178/1/rlt7796.pdf

I like the framework and modeling evident in developing the course.
Very different and far more complex from the setup I employ in the level for teaching environment.
Wow. well done.

I now have been able to reflect and accept that research can be very powerful. The relevancy took me a while.
This paper is like closing the loop for me.

I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to develop myself through the course.
Seeing the facilitators depth of understanding supported by sound educational theory, is cool.
Thanks.

Someone I need to read.

Carl R Rogers.
Freedom to Learn. Published 1969.

"Zone of proximal development"  V.Vygotsky

'Making sense', is a social process; ...  (Bruner and Haste 1987:1)

http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2178/1/rlt7796.pdf

Management lessons?

Is this message being shared?

http://www.linkedin.com/share?viewLink=&sid=s515918523&url=http%3A%2F%2Flnkd.in%2FeTpSPu&urlhash=nflh&pk=member-home&pp=11&poster=42544013&uid=5506527272703627264&trk=NUS_UNIU_SHARE-title

let's hope so.

Trying "screenr" vodcasting cloud software for first time. Graduate Profile.

Wow this has a huge potential.

it is so easy to use and can be used forwards (in delivery of content) and backwards (student feedback presentations etc...)

I'm sure students' will find this screen capture a blessing.

To date I've had to use a clunky programme that was downloaded into my harddrive and didn't link quicly to a cloud environment.

This is the BOMB!
Thanks Chris for sending me a sample of your discovery.




I've just happened to use the "Graduate Profile" as it is recognised at present.

Below is some clowning around with me mates birthday photos.

The fear wall is evident but...

During my personal migration into developing an understanding of online social media tools and their possible place within an educational context etc... I undertook to build an online/cloud 'fear wall' where colleagues were able to ask the same questions I now see everywhere.
The fear is real, but so to is the idea that these fears are not restricted to the educational environment but are in fact societal.
How do young people navigate these apparent minefields?
They are guided.
Was my fear wall useful?
To some degree, it did however quickly become surplus to requirements as the personal fears within our group dissipated through open discussion and understanding of functions available with web 2.0 tools.
As an example; students and educators, both, tend to keep their work private or semi-private until they are confident with the tools and have edited some work to a degree where they feel they have said/developed something of worth.
They then tend to choose to show their work and have peer input/comment into their work, therefore becoming public, possibly even collaborative.

The below link is just another supportive snippet that suggests that we need to keep advancing our pathway into the 'living curriculum'.

Social media find place in classroom

My own child (8 year old) is quite comfortable around online activities. her school embraces the 'good' in the web 2.0 world and helps students' to navigate the correct and safe pathways.

I Now Realize:
The 'fear wall' is only really necessary for migrants into the online world. The digital natives are quite capable and understanding of the 'new boundaries'.
They make them.
The digital migrants 'walls' are very transparent to digital natives and we (migrants) must be honest and brave enough to learn from the natives for the betterment of open communication and shared experiences.

A learned response?
Yes.
Does it take long?
No.

Do we need to be brave?
Buk Buk Buk.

Christopher giving some reflection around being student centered

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJEggkvygw&feature=related





An excellent interview here that covers a lot of territory.

The honesty of 'where the change and challenge is' from a tutors' perspective is absolutely what I find within myself.
Allowing the time for communities of practice to build takes patience and careful monitoring.

A true reflection of a 'facilitator of learning' (Conversationalist/Constructivist) NOT a 'regurgetator of knowledge'.

iPadagogy

i-Padagogy showcase at the kaleidoscope Unitec gymnasium.

http://youtu.be/MtDdEcA1EIE?a

A good event, interested participants and full on activities.

Audrey Grey says' it right

Just had to put this in here.
I need to read this person some more.
This is just a follow on from me eureka.
http://teachersity.org/development/resource.php?cat_id=7&content_id=79

Just cool.