What a wonderful experience this has been and I know will continue to be! Although there have been so many times when I have felt completely out of my depth and drowning beyond belief, I would never have expected how much I have learnt in such a short period of time and more importantly how [...]
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Here is a link to my page outlining my reflections on experiences when designing learning communities.
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Together with 5 other Masters students at UTS, we designed a model for an online learning community where members can participate in a socially constructive learning environment. edutweet primarily focuses on adult learners and educators participating asynchronous in a collaborative yet flexible social network that assists in the completion of learning tasks. Although the philosophy of [...]
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When I became involved in the group assessment task for developing a model for an e-Learning community, I was at first, a little apprehensive about using a microblogging tool such as Twitter to enhance collaborative learning. Of course, we recognised that Twitter used alone, could not completely enhance all learning but together with other tools, [...]
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PDay – Presentation day for group uni work, Saturday 23 May 2009.
My last thought when going to sleep on Friday night was ‘god! I have to get up so early for a Saturday! That doesn’t seem fair and what about my sleep-in’. Perhaps I shouldn’t have worried as I was pretty much awake most of [...]
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While enjoying the luxury of R&R and the Easter break in Melbourne, I picked up a free magazine called ‘Child The best guide for parents – Food & Wellbeing Issue’ (April 2009). No, I’m not a parent, but I thought it would give me something to read while I was waiting for my eagerly anticipated [...]
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Twitter as a learning tool
I have only recently joined Twitter and am still ‘feeling’ my way around. Aside from investigating its uses, I am part of a group investigating the possibility of using Twitter as a learning tool for university students. My very limited knowledge of this tool focused on its use as a quick [...]
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Here is a link to my page outlining my learning experiences as a participant in a particular community.
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This interview conducted on 25 April, 2009 between Aulia Masna, executive editor of Macworld Indonesia, and Loren Brichter (author of Tweetie) focuses on the recent release of iPhone version of Tweetie and how the application came to be. It also focuses on the what was the thought process behind its design and questions the reasons for the [...]
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Although particularly lengthy, I found this paper by Shirley Saunders particularly interesting to read. The connections between how adults learn, the environment where that learning takes place, the types of interaction involved and what is learnt will affect how learning is viewed and what amount of that learning is retained. This paper discusses various theories [...]
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