Reflecting on Revolution School
I try to keep my blog pretty light and enjoyable, and I hope that this post is the same. However, by light and enjoyable, I do not mean uninformed. Many of my blog posts are informed by or directly drawn…
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
KayO
Attention teachers, librarians, makers: lend me your ears!
So I’ll be honest, #blogjune hasn’t worked out quite as I’d hoped. I had been making fantastic daily progress when I was struck down with a hideous head cold. The kind that makes you feel like a zombie, and any…
Networks and Webs – inspired by a metaphor
I love reading the work of Jenny Mackness. She is an independent researcher, who blogs about many topics that aligned with areas that are of great interest to me. Her most recent post was called “New Metaphors for Learning“, and…
A Meme is a powerful thing to waste…
Understanding the potential of the meme… See more on Know Your Meme An internet meme (pronounced meem) is a moving feast. What was cool last week is now so over, and it can seem like a full time job to keep…
Go back in Time – for real! (No Dr Who spoilers :-))
So…true story. I found an awesome research article yesterday. What made it especially awesome was that it referred to a paper which looked EVEN MORE awesome! I know, sometimes I get excited about strange things. The reference list even had…
Be inspired! A gorgeous dashboard to raise your productivity
I don’t know about you, but when I fire up my laptop some mornings I feel the need for something more than caffeine to get me motivated to write. The Momentum Dashboard is just the thing. Each time I open…
Keeping #blogjune pretty – Finding and attributing Creative Commons Images
flickr photo shared by alicejamieson under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license Awesome blog posts communicate on many different levels. You may have noticed that I am a huge fan of infographics for capturing a lot of information in…
Social Configurations of Learning – Communities, Groups, Nets and Sets
As part of my research, I need to explore how people cluster together when they learn socially online. This is really interesting to me, because prior to this, I hadn’t given much thought to the differences between networks, communities and…
Getting friendly with Printfriendly #blogjune
So I have decided to take on #blogjune . For those unaware, it is a project that challenges participants to blog every day during the month of June; hence the question ‘am I mad?’ which is floating around in my…
Making Your Practice Public: the special sauce of professional learning!
During my studies, I have been reading a lot of research about what makes professional learning effective. Professional learning is something that governments, education systems and schools invest a lot of money in, and so as you can imagine, there…