The Professional Portfolio of Kay Oddone
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 kind of thinking beyond ‘when’s my next scotch, honey and lemon drink coming?’ is just […]
Continue ReadingI 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 it got me thinking about how much we rely on metaphors for understanding, and how […]
Continue ReadingUnderstanding 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 your finger on the pulse. A meme is what everyone is talking about right now. […]
Continue ReadingSo…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 a url for this most awesome article, which happened to be a conference paper delivered […]
Continue ReadingI 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 up my Chrome browser I am greeted with a friendly salutation, the most gorgeous image […]
Continue Readingflickr 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 an appealing way. The saying ‘a picture says a thousand words’ is so true. In […]
Continue ReadingAs 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 the like; I tended to use the words interchangeably. Lots of people do! Whether it […]
Continue ReadingSo 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 head. I have no idea how I will go, particularly over weekends, which are typically my […]
Continue ReadingDuring 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 is quite a lot of research about what ‘works’ and what doesn’t. In fact, there […]
Continue ReadingI will admit that earlier in my career, I looked forward to professional development opportunities as a chance to escape the classroom, spend the day with adults, conversing at a professional level and enjoying a lunch where I could actually sit down and digest my food, and maybe even drink a coffee while it was […]
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