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Monthly Archives: September 2010
You Can’t Use the Same Tool Twice
I originally wrote the blog post, “Real Problem – Virtual Solution” to explain how Second Life serves my learning and teaching as a tool in my PLE. And my writing generated a question about affordances because I’ve seen Second Life … Continue reading
Real Need — Virtual Solution
I’m usually so high after a great class that I’m can’t sleep. A huge part of my resistance to taking the “Teaching Through Literature with Young Adults” graduate course online was selfishly not wanting to lose my weekly fixes but … Continue reading
PLUperfect Tense
In an act of me-centeredness, I’m expanding my PLE to a PLU (Personal Learning Universe). I thought of this as I worked seeding grass today and trudged 50 times past the “100-year” stone wall that I built. I was so … Continue reading
Creative Chaos
I borrowed my mantra, “working at the edge of my incompetence” from Elliot Eisner and PLENK 2010 has given it a whole new meaning. Exploring creativity and connectivism is one of my goals for the course so that’s a good … Continue reading
Seeing the Invisible
This exercise of attempting to make my PLENK visual once again reminded me of the power of visualization. So often in my f2f classes I would ask individuals of groups to “symbolically represent” or draw a synthesis they came up … Continue reading
Hello world!
There could be no better title for my blog than “Virtually Foolproof.” I live in a technological vortex where nothing is foolproof. Yet, I am drawn to technology as a moth to a flame. My passion is for encouraging my … Continue reading
