Much Ado About Twitter
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Software, Teaching, Technology, Virtual Spaces
Twitter is an example of a microblogging service, the above video, Twitter in Plain English by the excellent Common Craft, gives a succinct overview of its features and functionality. Other microblogging services like Yammer, Identi.ca and Jaiku have been around too, but have not garnered the high-profile “celebrity status” that their most illustrious competitor has [...]
Tags: Higher Education, learning, microblogging, social media, Social Networking, students, teaching, Twitter, Web 2.0
The Four Horsemen
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Teaching
Yesterday, I attended the Fourth Symposium on Social Learning Spaces at Oxford Brookes University with my boss who is, incidently, doing his masters on professional development and the use of e-portfolios. We had hoped to have come back from the symposium with lots of ideas and food for thought with regards to our University’s new [...]
Tags: education, four horsemen, IDGBL2009, learning, risk, serendipity, trust, violence
The Learner with a Thousand Identities
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Research
One of my pet interests is that of identity. Gee not only devotes a whole chapter on idenity (and learning), but also another chapter that looks at identity (and culture). Gee suggests that learning that takes place within, what he describes as “semiotic domains”, or as he puts it more plainly: “an area or set [...]
Tags: culture, identity, IDGBL2009, learning, otherness, relationship, semiotic domains
The 36 Steps
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning
I have finally finished reading James Paul Gee‘s “What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy” where Gee gives an inspirational treatise on how the Education sector can look to the principles and methods employed by the games industry to get people playing their computer / video games and how the players [...]
Tags: games, gaming, IDGBL2009, learning, literacy
The Language of Play
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Teaching, Technology
Reading this week’s papers from Pat Kane (2005) and Brian Sutton-Smith (1997) were a sheer joy and delight compared to the James Newman chapter the other week. I think the issue between these three writers is one of how an argument is being presented to the reader. We start with Sutton-Smith (1997) who sets that scene [...]
Tags: education, game, google, IDGBL2009, learning, play, rhetorics, toy
