The Professional Portfolio of Kay Oddone
So I’ve spent the past 2 weeks reading research papers, articles on professional learning for teachers and professional/personal learning networks and books by David Weinberger and George Siemens. I still feel as though I have only scratched the surface when it comes to understanding the academic side of social media being used as a source of […]
Continue ReadingKnowledge now lives not just in libraries and museums and academic journals. It lives not just in the skulls of individuals. Our skulls and our institutions are simply not big enough to contain knowledge. Knowledge is now a property of the network…(Weinberger, p12, 2011). Living in 2016, the internet is part of life for almost […]
Continue ReadingDo you know a person who, completely by themselves, can build a 747? Everything from the metal shell, the comfy (??) seats, upholstered in company fabric, the plastic tray tables, the tyres for landing, not to mention the complex electronics and massive engines required to run it? Of course not – no one on earth […]
Continue ReadingBeing a Librarian, research is part of my role. I have been asked to research all sorts of things, and generally if it is out there, somewhere on Google, or in a Database, or on a shelf in the library, I can find it. These research skills are valuable, and I am so glad that […]
Continue ReadingSo 2016 has arrived, and it certainly is a new dawn for me. Taking leave from Brisbane Catholic Education, which has been my employer for the past eighteen years, I have taken a leap of faith, and have enrolled to be a full time doctoral student, completing (hopefully!) the Doctor of Education course through Queensland […]
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