Thoughts from Cowell

Well I have completed the required tasks... opened an account at Flickr, uploaded photos and did some some social book marking, so now I will just sit and watch the sun go down over Franklin Harbour and the school's oyster lease.
Salams
bobsilis

I have a delicious account called cemons

stonypix

I have flickr and del.icio.us accounts and you can find mine using my username of

'stonypix'

What else?

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Hi! everyone.
Welcome on board Josie,Trudy and Bob.
Hope you enjoy the experience.
Thankyou Stony for the great ugly pictures of the crocodiles and the unusual butterflies.
Nice garden Jane.
Stony , thanks for all the interesting information and for you feed back. I want to post a 2nd picture of my cycad , one and a half years later if I can.
Seya later

Cycad flower 2

Have a look at my cycad flower after one and a half years.

Marianthy

Implications of Web 2.0

This resource is also posted on our Moodle site but you can also embed media from other site in a blog so you can view it without having to go the host site. This wonderful video is hosted on YouTube.

What Michael did this weekend!

It's hard rubbish week in our council area so I and my wife spent the weekend emptying my mother-in-law's house.

My Pic goes to the Web

Where Were We before WWW

HEUTAGOGY - the study of self-determined Learning

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Heutagogy

http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec00/hase2.htm

http://www.wln.ualberta.ca/papers/pdf/17.pdf

Etymology: Heuristics - To discover or find out

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Heuristics&searchmode=none

Inventive or Experimental - a trial and error procedure

The Art of Discovery

Learning is natural - like breathing

We now have the Internet

Multimedia

Virtual Learning Environments

Social Networks

Does Teaching only depend on delivery to children or adults?

Are the rules for Pedagogy those of Plato and Confucius and those for Andragogy those of Jean Paul Sartre and Knowles?

Are the rules for e-learning those of Heutagogy?

Is the timeline of Learning technology (technology being the ability to meet a human need) simply:

Pedagogy - Andragogy - Heutagogy?

Without questions we can have no answers.

Questions are the most interesting part of Learning - do you think so too?

Welcome to the newly evolving species - Humans Internetus

For those on the course beginning November 12

You will notice that there are posts here from people who have previously done the New Learning Technologies course. I have left them here:

• for you to read and perhaps learn from
• to ensure that the complete record of this blog is available to all
• maybe past participants may come by and join new discussions
• to illustrate that tools like blogs cross boundaries of time and institution

Blogs v Wikis V Forums v Email

Well I think blogs essentially have the poster of the information as focal point. Yes you can of course have a class blog, and the comments feature, but I'm still not convinced that they do discussion very well. (But - check this great class and student blogging space) Blogs are great for creating just websites too, because you can really easily embed media in blogs.

You can also do this with wikis (embed media) but it's harder. But wikis are by design, group spaces.

Forums - well - good for discussion, but very wordy and unattractive. (You can't embed media)

The Million Dollar Question

Pam has written about how useful blogs are for travel diaries, but what's their role in education (outside of the obvious like English or language classes?) We have email, forum, wikis, and blogs. What do blogs offer that the others don't?

Pams Contribution

Hi All
Just testing to see if I can sucessfully add to this blog. They are a great way for people to communicate with others on their travels or lives or what ever in a public way. My daughter kept a travel diary on a blog while travelling over Christmas -New Year and it was great to see photos and hear of the daily journey. I am currently enjoying the journeys of a couple of other friends children too.
Pam

Test post

Hi everyone, just attempting a post on Michael's blog to see if it works. I am finding it a little difficult because I have a very boisterous young German Shepherd by the name of Sam who thinks I should be out the back yard playing ball and keeps jumping up on me and putting his big paws on my keyboard. :-) Gotta go ....

Welcome

We will use this blog to experiment during our short course on New Learning Technologies.