Mlearning Leadership Network - some ideas and info

Soon as I get a chance I will organise a webconference with the NSW Learnscope Mlearning Leadership Network to collaborate on the applications to teaching and learning of the information and tools that I have linked to here! Thank you Alex, Sean, Wendy and Leonard Low - and some of the links I actually found myself!

I am also excited to hear the teams ideas and interest, and the directions to take with mobile learning that they are dreaming up, that we will all learn from!

One other thought is that team members could join mobile twitter so we can all keep each other inspired and up to date with our ideas. Join twitter, activate your phone as per the instructions and add the team members as your friends, starting with me (Anne Paterson) ! I will try and put my twitter badge on the wiki so we can see all the twitterings!

Here are some starter ideas and info for us to work on! If you are on the team, get on to the wiki and add yours, or link us to wherever your ideas are. Use the comment field here if you like!

Fantastic info and resources on mobile computing - Wendy Zammits course

http://basicskills.wikispaces.com/Week+7.+Mobile+computing

http://semapedia.org/http://reader.kaywa.com/

Citizen photo-journalism using mobile phones

http://www.scoopt.com/news/article.aspx?a=135

Mediasnackers - Youth media vodcast

Mobstr - seehttp://www.mobstr.com/

Creating and distributing mobile episodes

Create learning material for download to Ipods - see http://www.mogopop.com/

http://mlearning.edublogs.org/ - mobile poetry resources

When a blogger stops blogging

I have had bloggers block, when so many things pierce my conciousness and my heart that I dont know what to write next.


So I will write about life, which I have been contemplating since seeing the play Shadowlands last Saturday night.


The whole deal about life is that you cant remain neutral if you really want to live. Participating means feeling and feeling covers a huge spectrum. How do you feel all of your feelings fully and still survive? Even being very happy can be exhausting, let alone being sad.


When I stop to rest my feverish head on a damp and shady piece of ground in the garden I find myself. It is the same core self that has been there all along. I recognise my inner self as ok and whole, whatever is happening in the world that hurts, excites or exhilirates me. Once or twice in the past I felt I had disintegrated and that was a crisis. Now whenever I look inside I am there whole and ok.


I know and give unconditional love to my companions on myown heros journey- my beloved, my family and my friends. "People dont live perfect lives" so the love has to be unconditional to be nurturing, healing,, affirmative, powerful and life-giving. I believe in love as devotion to whom and what you believe in.

Creativity as a life line and life force - I want to paint, draw,listen, read, write, photoshop, think, I am voracious for ideas that cross time, space, culture and perceptions of greatness in all its contexts. I want to mix and employ technologies that connect me wherever I want to be or get to, and communicate with who Iwant to, in a way I want.

I still want to talk about evolution, spirituality, wisdom and balance, but for now I think I have written enough for a blogger who hasnt blogged for a while.

Truth and Beauty

This is not what I meant to write but this is what came out. I guess the moral of this story that would apply to all aspects of our life, including work, is that clarity comes with reflection and ellumination.

I am alive to beauty and therefore to truth.

I see and feel the truth in light and in the light strained by leaves and filtered onto the crumpled pastel sheets that heap on the corner of my stiff mattress.

I hear the truth in a song, the notes telling stories of memories, yearnings and emotions. The notes are brought out of an instrument that by its curves evokes a woman's body and is hugged and caressed, held close by its mysterious but determined lover.

White warm light is falling everywhere and reveals more depth of beauty than I have ever been aware of..

Truth and beauty are my own perception and there is a poignant beauty to be found by spending time graduating through the layers of subtleties. Each shade of grey reveals its own intricacies of shape, form and terrain.

As the white warm light falls on my heart and soul each sight, sound, texture, taste and emotion is elluminated as never before.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" John Keats.