[jrconlon95]

Hello

Thank you for highlighting CMALT it looks very useful.  I will try to add your question to the seminar if it doesn’t come up in the presentation.  I am quite happy awarding myself a badge – it must be the girl guide in me!  I know I’ve earned it and would be happy to expand / demonstrate it.  I’m not expecting it to carry any esteem – I agree others have the right to be sceptical but I will accept it. 

Jo

[jrconlon95]

I like the timed presentation aspect.  This reminds me of pecha kucha – we use this with our final years to outline their major project proposal to the class – a visual rationale

Found this recently too http://mattlingard.wordpress.com/?s=pecha+kucha

[jrconlon95]

I agree about reflections needing to be assessed, although I do wish I didn’t have to!  Although I am torn on this issue I have come down on the side of assessing it, taking the view that if a ‘value’ is assigned to it then the students will attend to it.  Hoping in the long term they see the value in refection for their own CPD…

I would be interested if you had any ‘tools’ you used to develop the habit.  Do you use ‘critical instances  for example?

 

[jrconlon95]

I hardly dare add a reference to this list but it was recommended to me by Cheryl Reynolds (thanks).  Currently only got it out of the library but it looks very useful from her comments and the contents

Kraut, R.E., Resnick, R. (2011) Building Successful Online Communities

 

[jrconlon95]

Thanks for the resources in this posting.  I particularly liked the ‘learning from your mistakes’ aspect. But in an age of ‘getting it right’  how do we give students the confidence and belief to experiment and make lots of mistakes?  Surely this provides the experience to make sound judgments in the future?

I think I might ask my final years to share their mistakes and learning from it regularly to open this up.  I guess it’s only fair I kick it off though…

I thought you may like Illeris (Ed) (2009) Contemporary Theories of Learning – my favourite chapter is Chapter 16 on Transitional Learning.

[jrconlon95]

Hello Fellow Design Thinker – nice example and very thorough!  You might like this:

http://www.fahrenheit-212.com/wp-content/uploads/F212_Rethinking_Design_Thinking.pdf

I didn’t know the company Farenheit 212 so looked them up  – ‘ a new kind of consultancy, helping big companies innovate by melding the best of Ideo and McKinsey’.

I am going to tackle downloading and implementing Hootsuite, which as a techno-muppet will be interesting / comical / frustrating.  Obviously currently procrastinating with a nice Design Thinking moment, so thanks!

[jrconlon95]

Top post – really useful, thanks.  Please start your blog up again!

Jo

[jrconlon95]

Hi Joseph

Thanks for the clip.  I would also choose flipped.  I think you make a very interesting point about short term / long term. So who knows in the long term.  The phrase ‘overwhelmed by the noise’ for activity level in a MOOC seems to sum up a lot of the sentiment as we start the course.   The clip is a good way of getting to know our new franger too – not sure I’m brave enough yet but appreciated remembering what a sunny day looked like.

Jo

[jrconlon95]

Hi Phil

Thanks for the link. I have also been pondering participation, engagement and community.  How to do this digitally without also feeling bombarded? Or like a ‘show and tell’ session. Mmmmm. I have also struggled to keep contact with those I have started ‘conversations’ with too.  It feels like finding the end of a ball of wool – not a natural conversation. So this doesn’t add anything to your thoughts other than to confirm them from my experience.  I think the blog is also my big take-away too – couldn’t find your blog link though to take a peek.

Jo

[jrconlon95]

I would be a real advocate for collaboration.  It just rings true for me and how I operate.  The interesting part of this MOOC is working to establish this style digitally which is definitely still work-in-progress.  You seem to be looking for evidence, and this book sprang to mind when I saw your post.  But then I am interested in transformative learning theory so may not be what you were looking for.  Plus also consider emergent learning – without the group nothing new would emerge…
Team learning: A transformative use of small groups (Fink, 2002 Ed: Michaelsen)
 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Team_based_Learning.html?id=8S8efQkqeqIC&redir_esc=y

[jrconlon95]

Hi Laura

This has really helped me as I was totally lost on what on earth to plot as I kept moving from quadrant to quadrant and nodding!  Not very productive.  I will try again with approach, activities, assessments and anything else I think of and have another go.  I think a % or some other way of ranking would also be useful.  If I crack it then I’ll post again…don’t hold your breath!

[jrconlon95]

Hi Eric

The Mazur clip also reminded me of flipped classroom.  I think he refers to it as ‘teaching by questioning not telling’, which I liked.  I think this is where I am heading  – hopefully finding the tools to establish a collaborative way of working a flipped classroom with my students.  I am also keen that this is the students space not the institutions – this links to the Rheingold clip ‘learners bring their spaces’.  I think collecting posts and then starting a discussion (as in Mazur) would be a very positive experience and also helps with the  issue of participation and engagement with the community.

[jrconlon95]

Hello Jo,

I started last week and can reassure you that unless you have partcipated in a MOOC before then a feeling of behing overwelmed / left behind seems pretty common!  I have found trying to do a bit every day helpful and using the weekly guidelines from OcTEL useful to keep track of ‘what I am meant to be doing?’.  You can catch up on the webinar from last Weds on the website too – I think this is well worth doing but there were some technical issues starting it so look out for the posting about when to start your screening from.  Stick with it – lots of folks are clinging on!

Jo

[jrconlon95]

Hello

I have been meaning to investigate Google+.  Lots of retail businesses are now using Yammer – it is like facebook. 
Yammer is a Private Social Network for Your Company
Collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.

Anyone any expereince of Yammer? It looks quite straight forward on their website – but it always does!! 🙂

[jrconlon95]

Hello

Bit lost! Have joined the Tutors in HE group.  Nice introductions but prompted to contact you after reading Roger’s post today about there not being any discussions beyond the intros.  We need some tips to get the forum going please. Is it possible to restructure it?  Newest first? Break into sections or threads? I would need instructions as obviously a techno-muppet but v good at following instructions! 🙂

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