Short answer … not much. At least that’s how it appears to me at the moment. I do know that I’m all PLENKED out, somewhat depressed and not looking forward to immersing myself in #jiscel10. Perhaps it’s a symptom of SAD, or maybe I’m just in mourning.
Socrates Week 7 in PLENK2010 was concerned with PLE/N tools (What Exists, What is Being Built?): Many of the tools that fit under the PLE/N umbrella have been appropriated by educators from other fields. This isn’t necessarily a problem, but it does reflect a sense that educators are not building tools for themselves. The software that we use in this course is a bit of an exception. We [the facilitators] rely on various open source tools (Moodle, WordPress), proprietary tools (Elluminate), and tools that have been developed with feedback from facilitators and experiences in other open courses (i....
At PLENK2010 participant Heli Nurmi’s request (see Test Your Blog Please), I submitted the URL of this blog to http://www.typealyzer.com/ to have it subjected to a Myers-Briggs personality test. It turns out that these scribblings reveal me to be an INTP type (The Thinker) The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications....
Week 7 in PLENK2010 Originally uploaded by Chris P Jobling Week 7 of PLENK2010 is all about the tools. I subject about which I believe I actually have some expertise. Though the concept of the personal learning environment has been around for the last five years, there has not been a comprehensive summation of what has been developed in the field. We would like to build that summation this week....
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. – Inigo Montoya, the (film of) The Princess Bride. Novel and screenplay by William Goldman. This week, I was in Gegynog at the final meeting of the Gwella participants. While there, a few people mentioned the phrase digital literacy. A variation of the phrase cropped up in the introduction to the readings for Week 6 of #PLENK2010 (see the Wordle above)....