tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-353749552011-08-07T00:19:16.881+10:00Embracing learning in the 21st Century. Somewhere I can participate in the conversation. A space to participate, contribute and learn, about the world and myself. Life is sweet.Annenoreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35374955.post-21956279492007366102010-11-09T19:56:00.001+11:002010-11-09T20:02:54.120+11:00

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I want to show this video to the Hurstville Senior Citizens computer club! We are having a discussion about how social networking and digital technologies are part of a new social, work and learning environment.

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Click To Play Next step - download to ipod nano!

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With access from Facebook, blogs and other social networking sites, this is where young people will be hanging out. I am thinking that IM will now be replaced by meeting in virtual spaces to hang out and do the things we have been doing and suggesting could be done in Second Life - socialising, watching videos etc.It is easy to see all the social interaction happening via the web 2.0 Facebook

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Here are some blogs I need to follow up - thanks to Elaine Talbert! Good use of slideshow to share! Edu Blogosphere A List June08 From: etalbert, 1 week ago | View | Upload your own A tribute the A List bloggers in education who inform us for free about effective professional learning and opportunities for student learning. SlideShare Link

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www.wordle.net - too much fun - thank you TALO! This wordle was made up by entering my blog url to create this word cloud! Wish I knew how to make the image bigger - will have a look back at the site when I get time, or have a purpose!Actually, I just worked out if you click on the image you are taken to a larger image at wordle.net.

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Where is everyone? Twitter - no answer, Skype - not connecting, gmail - not available. I think I have fallen off the grid again, musnt have been putting in enough online hours. Best thing I have seen is Stephen Downes use of camtasia in putting his newsletter out. Thats what I need, a purpose to make or create something from all the fantastic tools out there. Plenty of ideas here, but no real

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Here is something I want to try soon! Thanks to the Teaching and Learning Online Group (TALO)for the link!

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Wharf Theatre at Walsh Bay in Sydney - divine energy and magic!

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May followed April and the excitement of my brother and hiw wife Janet visiting from Germany. My brother the plasma physicist, his life work and passion. April also gave us Mum and Dads 50th anniversary, now there is an occasion with heart where the dearest relatives assembled to celebrate and the original bridesmaids rock n' rolled. Mum and Dad were the king and queen of the day looking

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Well, I missed out on funding to use two way distributed video from teachers and learners on wikis, but when you lose one sometimes you win something else, and this time there are two or three positive spin-offs. The first one is that one way or another the unfunded project will happen anyway,by other means. Secondly I have a RFID Learning Table and an N95 to experiment with, it has just

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I am not sure if this happened while I was sleeping, but wow - a new dimension to teaching and learning with young people (and others) if I can send regular video to engage and communicate with! Works on a reasonable range of Nokia phones and a couple of others. Need to explore further!

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17/3/08Dear Anne,Thanks for volunteering to be a Coach. I really appreciate your support in this initiative but I am going to have to ask you to wait in the wings for a while. On Friday, Al Upton(of the miniLegends fame), a local teacher here in Adelaide has been asked to close his classroom blogs down pending an investigation from a Risk Management point of view http://alupton.edublogs.org/ It

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This video has started 5 million conversations!

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Over the next six months I will be attending Sydney University to participate in the Certificate of Digital Literacy at the Division of Professional Learning, Faculty of Education with Dr. Angela ThomasToday we looked at a whole range of approaches to digital literacy that Angela had assembled for us to look at over on her blog under the Digital Fiction page. It is great to be in a class with

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Some friends of mine wanted to see a photo so I thought I would put it here. We look so happy!

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I had an interesting conversation on the train home the other day with Stephen Parker about this book, interesting enough for me to come home and google it and blog about it.Changing Images of Man Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) released a report in 1974 that has become a classic in the "alternative futures" literature. Ithas been adopted as a text in non-traditional courses

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Skypecast is for audio casting only, no video feature.Videoconferencing on skype only seems to work with one to one videoconferencing.There are additional programs that will share the desktop and allow collaborative work while using SkypeSkypeout is very easy to use, and seems reasonably inexpensiveUsing the webcam with Skype is easy, efficient and effective

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I am enjoying what I am doing so I thought I would include it here:I have been working on the Real Skills Virtually project (see links in side bar). I have updated the Real Skills Virtually blog and developed the Preparatory Phase project plan in the Immersive Environment wiki. Now, I am going to whip up a storm via email with the six teachers that are interested in participating - and off into

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I was looking around JoKaydia II the other night and came across a beautifully landscaped garden, and a huge beautifully furnished house. There was someone inside - her name was Pandora, I could see her through the window and desperately wanted to connect. I flew up to the dancefloor balcony and entered from upstairs, it was funny how intrusive I felt just dropping in like this. Soon enough I

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Definitely something I want to try and can see potential for!

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Collaborative Video brings the opportunity for rich collaborative learning - I am hoping it develops into an easy platform to access and customise(rip and mix?) video clips in individual and creative ways, it is exciting because this is a concept my colleagues and I have been talking about for a couple of years and have been waiting to see developed and realised"Wikipedia To Get Its Video OnUnder

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Is this what we have been waiting for or what?! We know that yesterday a camera or video feature on a mobile phone was really something. Over a short time they have become common place features, readily available for use in teaching and learning (although not utilised as much as they could be). The technology that sees Second Life on mobile phones will also become commonplace - and then we will

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Great idea from Classroom 2.0. I particularly like the idea of being able to phone the speech in for the character to speak, but I dont think it works in Australia. I think there is some fun to be had with really pretty princess characters with very deep male voices too! Here is my voki, I have kept it very straight -AC_Voki_Embed(300,400, 'fb6797dc728b4b5aa11c16694cc2dcd0', 171593, 1, '', 0);Get

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Before 2007 is too far behind me I want to capture the books I have read so I dont forget them. As with most bloggers and people who spend time on-line I sift through a large amount of written and visual material, and luckily for me I was shown how to use del.ici.ous so I can always find it again.So I will list the books and make some notes about them here in this blog post - then I can tag it "

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Feels like a happy and joyous Christmas to me! All is well in my world!I have a new job as a multimedia instructional designer which is a direction I have really wanted to move into more strongly. My first jobs after Christmas will be to research any available learning objects that relate to the units of competence and then draft a storyboard in consultation with end users. I should get the

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Using some old engageme images to show Animoto to a friend!

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This is a great chance to refamiliarise myself with all the features of the blogger template! So far we have looked at the range of purposes blogs are used for, choosing themes, editing profiles, formatting and embedding images and video. We have also developed link lists for our blogs. I obviously need to upgrade my blogger account as they have access to features that are different to mine,

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http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/video/MPK20-oct2007.movAfter reading the latest NSW Learnscope Blog post I wanted to bring this link about Sun Microsystems virtual office into view again. This link was distributed a few weeks ago by Sean Fitzgerald, for some reason I cant see or find an embed code so I will just have to put the link here. This is a movie I would show anyone who wants to know

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Thanks to Alex Hayes for letting me know about this one!

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I am going to tell you what I really think in this post.In Philip Larkins words from the poem "High Windows" I dont have to "hide what you(I) think of the priest" anymore.Education 3.0Dont forget everything about education as you know it, dont forget the wisdom and experience that great teachers have made available to their learners. Just forget about associating any personal power with that -

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Just found this, perfectly timed to follow my post on my thoughts about Osmosis and Diffusion.Did everyone else already know about this?! Applications for teaching and learning present themselves readily - in world group assignments, communication skills, team management, even the old telephone skills take a new twist! Vodafone calls into Second Life with InsideOut from the Brand Strategy blog:It

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I was once a home economics teacher and osmosis and diffusion related to cooking berries (osmosis) and spraying non-stick substances (diffusion). Now the apples are the real world and mobile phones are the spray cans!Image: 'recipe: rhubarb-blueberry pie with papaya-apple glaze' www.flickr.com/photos/43927576@N00/134643760Osmosis"Osmosis is the flow of a solvent in a system in which two solutions

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This story “Digital literacy in a knowledge economy”By John Hartley ABC News 13 Dec reminded me that my passions in teaching and learning are still the same as they ever were, young people, technology, philosophy, power, equality,negotiation, collaboration, creativity, content generation, literacy, ENGAGEMENTHere is a quote from the story that brought it all back for me“Teens evidently don't see

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I just wanted to make sure I got these pictures of last weekend up before I go away this weekend.Two very different events! Wisteria Festival at Parramatta in the morning, and Earthdance at Sydney Park on Sunday afternoon. Perfect weather for both - have to show my age and admit I liked the Wisteria Festival more than Earthdance, or was more comfortable at least anyway. Flowers and sunshine with

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I have been inspired and informed by Al Upton and his minilegends after getting the link through Sue Waters on Twitter I think!If you read this blog you will know I have been working on Twitter based literacy activities, using mobile phones to post, and to be displayed on a blog or wiki via twitterbadges or Apollo Twittercamp. These activities are for the purpose of engaging young people who

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I did! I did! I worked it out, although not without a little help from my friends who patiently explained, explained again and in then in one direct stroke provided the missing piece of information.I knew about Audacity, in fact had it ready on my computer to edit audio files. Fiddled around with it to make it work, cursed myself for not taking more notice the first time Sean and Stephan showed

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This book speaks to me about the way I think the world should be.Chris Lowney describes the Four Pillars of Heroic Leadership as Heroism, self-awareness, ingenuity and love.Love and valuing of the individual by management, I would like some of that! . Loyalty built of affection and commitment to shared goals. Supporting individuals to imagine and strive toward heroic ideals. Quick footedness and

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We were only an hour from Sydney but the heavy chains that weigh over us in our working week lifted, giving a light and feathery feeling to our upper bodies, helped by a rigourous breeze that gave my hair life by moving it friskily in all directions. It was like this poem that was recently brought to my attention by Michael to help me feel happy.Fresh, fresh, fresh and renewed. A tapestry of

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This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blogIt is Spring and the YWCATraining07 Learnscope project is bringing forth the fruit and flowers that have been tended by Scott, Judith, Kerrt, Sandra, Alice, Caecilia and Paul.There are many elearning achievements of this group – the combined and advanced use of Edublogs and Blogger including vodcasts and the use of some Web 2.0 tools like a

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As part of the MLearning Leadership Network each participant has been asked to implement mlearning strategies. I will put my plans here. As in the past my interests are around engaging learners in reading and writing by using the mobile phone as a content generation and communication tool.TwitterVerse (project title coined by Alex Hayes!)is a project designed to expose learners to poetry and to

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Some key findings from the mobile phone study that are of interest to me and that I will be taking into account as I plan teaching strategies that utilize mobile phones.Especially since “an estimated 94 per cent of Australians own a mobile phone, and for some, it is their most treasured gadget.” (hmmm surely this doesn’t include the under eight year olds?!:)): The Impact of the Mobile Phone

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Contrast the two statements in bold, these articles were posted on the ABC news site within three days of each other – which is it to be guys? As an educational technologist my support will fall pretty obviously on the side of the positive and I can name a few projects that give support to mobile phones in building more meaningful relationships ( see www.moblog.co.uk/blog/mobdeadly e.g p.60)

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There were 95 people in the courtyard for the launch of the Poetry Unlimited Press (P.U.L.P) 2007 anthology of poems, Illumina (Guest Editor Judith Beveridge, Edited by Roberta Lowing). Outdoors, surrounded by richly muraled walls, candlelight lighting up faces animated by alcohol, lattes, friends and conversation. Great heaters could have been roaring furnaces adding to a temperate climate, this

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Image: 'Oh my God it's Damien Leith 1' www.flickr.com/photos/65176998@N00/419269766There is a really good Irish band on the Second Sunday of every month from about 5.00pm at the Riverview Hotel in Balmain/Birchgrove.We enjoyed them, as did the crowd of locals who seem to use the Riverview as a community loungeroom, lots of cheer and spirited joining in with the singing. Balmain provided an

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Rose Grzdanic and myself were lucky enough to have our very own geek in residence on Saturday night. Craig Bottomley (Botts!) was in Sydney from WA as part of a geek-fest up in Lithgow on the weekend. I shouldnt be so disrespectful, because the geekfest was in aid of reviewing and consulting on some new tools being developed by Peter Shanks (Shaggy!) creator of the enchanting and hours of fun

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After connecting with 150,000 people from 104 countries as part of an online brainstorming session, IBM has identified the key five innovations it claims will transform how people around the world work, play and live over the next five years.The one of the “Next Five in Five” that really grabbed my interest was:* The popular online immersive destinations, such as Second Life, will evolve into a

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Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra - FantasiaThis concert was in collaboration with Urban Arts Base and included screening of original artworks developed by young artists in response to particular pieces and used as a multimedia pictorial backdrop.Original artwork, multimedia production and an orchestra, each on their own a rich treat, but together are absolutely a Fantasia!Anselm Kiefer, NSW Art

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I think these four tools might give me everything I need for a blended mlearning and elearning connected teaching and learning strategy.Winksite gives you the blog and blogroll for access via mobile phone - gives learners ability to consume information from mobile phone, twitter gives an instant communication tool for linking learners and collaborative learning and sharing, also accessible by

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I have heard angels sing and they sounded just like the closing scene of this movie.The lead character, Daniel, urges his choir to just 'listen' and then pull the sound down from heaven. To me this movie represented a many faceted prism of humanity - such pure love in all its forms from Lena,the story of courage from Gabrielle emerging from being beaten in her marriage to re-claiming her life,

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Its ironic that as the facilitator of the mobile learning leadership network, with the idea of 'always on' and easy communication that I have opened up the communication channels to the point where I think I may have created some confusion about points of contact for our team.I will straighten this out now!The main contact point for communication is http://nswlearnscope.wikispaces.com. Go to the

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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

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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

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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

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I love this statement and the feeling of so many positive possibilities from Jacinta Gascoigne made after her thorough exploration of social networking environments“Do you have any idea how refreshing it has been to read some of the material and read posts, reflecting how positive and excited others are about their own ventures and the value they place in the networks and connections made along

Annenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35374955.post-58631187471000291982007-04-27T12:19:00.000+10:002007-04-27T13:39:32.175+10:00

Well, this is my own space for learning, so I can put my own brand new poem here if I want too!The poem has a theme of collective humanity, and how we all know what has always been known. Three stanzas with four lines each, every first and third line rhyming!! It was fun to write. People out there who have inspired this, you know who you are!Knowing of the AgesAges of knowing clouded by

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We all know that things are not always as they seem.Bedposts resemble phallic symbols, the wood in the spiral of the goats horns of the tarot. Peter Rabbit was a villian, I will explain why later.Is adolescence what it seems? This extension of childhood is a state that has been named and constructed only in the last 60 years or so.When I think of adolescence I think of the variety of subcultures

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Sweet with warmthPulsing life and humourFull lips and tonguesTactile and mergedSweet with love

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These words appeared in black type like a newspaper front page headline as a dream last night. I used the babel fish translator to check that my own translation of cara and libre to mean love and freedom was correct. Close enough – cara/beloved. and libre/freedom.Where are love and freedom Have you seen them, do you desire them? A writer and very good friend of mine Michael Buhagiar has shown me

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On Friday the 9 March I attended a workshop that focused on the ways in which recognition of existing skills of learners could accelerate their progression to a qualification. Accelerating learners achievement of qualifications is seen as one way of addressing the skills shortage in NSW and Australia.I had always viewed Web 2.0 tools as a vehicle for engagement, relevance and a new paradigm of

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Do you remember the show called "Romper Room"? Through the magic mirror the hostess would call out all the names of the children she could "see" in the magic mirror. It was like that at the recent TALO Adelaide swap meet - via webconferencing I could see Leigh and Alex and Bill and Graeme and Robyn and Stephan. But it was like looking through the bubble or talking through ectoplasm.Robyn Jay

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Purity, Passion,Politics and RegurgitationOn the bright side of blogging we have the purity and passion of knowledge workers, researching, investigating,creating and evolving knolwedge into a higher truth. A purity of intention and passsion for knowledge is at work.The dark side of the blogoshere are the profile building politics and regurgitation of information without critique. I am not

Annenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35374955.post-68353697295388780182007-02-16T16:27:00.000+11:002007-02-16T16:45:19.591+11:00

A recent email from Alexander Hayes referred to a paper about U-learning, or ubiquitous learning. I shot back some thoughts which ended up on the NSW Learnscope blog, which I wasn’t expecting and should of realized could happen!. I also hear there is a podcast on the topic coming up on Talking VTE with Alex and Stephan Ridgeway – a friend of mine got a phone call at 10.30 last night to

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It is Valentines Day - spread the love around - especially you Mr. Downes!I am responding to recent comments about Second Life where the gist is that educators are only replicating classroom environments in a virtual environment. Well, I have seen evidence of both replicating old environments and some stunning new ways of learning, but if we (the royal we here includes Jo Kay, Sean Fitzgerald,

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It is five minutes to midnight on the “Doomsday Clock”.John Hallam from Friends of the Earth Australia says a number of grave concerns have prompted the step (of moving the clock closer toward midnight)."Some of the psychological and political barriers to the unthinkable (nuclear strikes) are being gradually demolished."If psychological and political barriers preventing the most hideous of

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This year I hope to be helping teachers demonstrate educational uses of secondlife. However, on reading Alex Hayes post about people neglecting their first life for their second one, I am attending to my first life, first!Here is a newly scanned and cropped photo of me ready for whatever 2007 brings! I am newly living on my own, in a new location, and with a new outlook on life. I am re-energised

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There are so many potential uses of mobstr.com in teaching and learning. I like to think of mobisodes as mini digital stories that arrive in installments.Mobisodes about- daily reports from workplacement- how a problem was solved- demonstrating and illustrating ideas and text- creative writing/drama- skill demonstration - steps in making a cappucino, setting a table- building project from

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I learnt three principles of mindfulness the other day which apply very well to the development of learners in the use of Web 2.0 in teaching, learning, creating and connecting with a network.Using the skills of mindfulness it is a good idea first to stand back and observe what you see. So if learnere are internet surfers or lurkers on mailing lists they are already half way there. There is no

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The fullness of strength is ShaktiShakti is bliss brimming overShakti is the glowing fire of loveShakti is intuition that enriches lifeThe light that lights the heart is ShaktiTraditional Tamil peom: Shakti (Divine Female Energy)OK so you wont be surprised to hear I went to the Art Gallery of NSW Exhibition - Goddess Divine Energy.On Thursday 19 October and Friday 20 October I listened to Nancy

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I have just caught up with how easy and effective it is to create, upload and distribute media using an N91 phone, a blip tv account, and a multimedia player, or phone.Shoot it on the phone, upload from phone straight into the blip tv account, push it out via rss feed to automatically download to multimedia player or phone.Stephen Parker put this technology to great use on the recent FLNW tour,

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Getting CLC savvyI am a participant of the NSW Connected Learning Community Learnscope (CLC) team. I am committed to the concept underpinning the project - to develop knowledge and learning through connection and conversation using Web 2.0 and social software. I have only just begun to realise how ambitious this project is in its intention for individuals of varying skill level and committment

Annenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35374955.post-1160115609317429592006-10-06T15:59:00.000+10:002006-10-06T16:35:22.616+10:00

Taking Risks to Learn in the NetworkPostcard of me/my avatar, AnnaB Paterson, on a horse in SecondLife.At the moment my avatar is running around in Second Life without hair and sometimes I cant make her stop dancing. Sometimes I manage to detach all her clothes leaving her naked in public places, something respectable educators should never do! Am I embarrassed at branding myself as such a newbie

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My own take on groups and networksI have been talking to Leonard Low over at Mobile Learning about having a go by participating and contributing to learn. Then the same thing came up for me over at Stephen Downes blog in differentiating between networks and groups. I have included my comments here because I am proud of them, and also because I want them to be picked up and discussed by the

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Using Mobile and Wireless Web 2.0 to meet VTE learners needs.A discussion over lunch delivered one of those moments where you go "why didn't I think of that?".A friend that works for a large industry organisation explained a simple but efficient use of SMS in training. When new material goes up on the organisations intranet, training participants are sent and SMS to direct them to it.Simple and

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Post-modern Models of LearningI will try and paint a verbal picture of what I think post modern learning models look like. I am thinking about the learning models as complex shapes and permutations. There are subtle nuances of colour and pattern within the myriad of complex shapes.The combinations of shapes, colours and patterns represent the models of learning that are possible and make it

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Personal Adjustment for Learning in the 21st CenturyJust Have a Go!In my last post I mentioned the personal adustment needed to participate in the development of a collective expertise, a bit like seeing ourselves as part of a pervasive universal energy grid instead of being individual bright sparks only capable of ingiting small shrub fires. I urge you to take your place in the grid!I also

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Participation + Contribution = LearningLeigh Blackall: FLNW tag cloudlink to the tag cloudI have been inspired by the recent tour of the openspace conference Future of Learning in a Networked World (FLNW). Leigh Blackall's message Teaching is dead has been heralded through a number of locations in New Zealand in the second half of September. I feel like I was there, without having to get so tired

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