Tag Archives: PLENK2010

Hands Off My Blog: Affirming the Right to Blog

Posted on November 28, 2010 by

“He’s (Mark Twain) surprisingly relevant right now . . . when you look at how much he wrote and the breadth of the subjects he wrote about, you know that if he were alive today, he would totally be a … Continue reading →

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The Transparent Toaster: The Formal/Informal Learning Dilemma Heats Up

Posted on November 19, 2010 by

You take something that is creative and open-ended – quests, videos, blog posts, play – and because it needs to be measured, participants are given common and clearly defined ‘objectives’ to aim for. And steadily and surely the fun and … Continue reading →

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My “Tool of Everything” — the E8

Posted on November 7, 2010 by

“. . . our universe is a growing E8 coral with particles interacting at every location in all possible ways according to a beautiful pattern.”  Garrett Lisi, TED 2008 E8 Polytope (Wikipedia) My Personal Knowledge Environment is evolving faster than … Continue reading →

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Reaching into the Future

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

“I have expectations when I write.”  — Melina Marchetta, author I’ve grappled with the question of goals and outcomes that came up a few weeks ago.  It seems a logical progression to begin with outcomes, decide how those outcomes will … Continue reading →

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Creating Theory

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things [read “theories”] before breakfast” — Lewis Carroll, 1872, Through the Looking Glass Simply defined, “a theory is a conceptual model of how the world works . . .” (Hunter-Gatherer Wiki, … Continue reading →

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The Future Belongs to a Different Kind of Person

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

It was the best of classes, it was the worst of classes. This was not my beloved YA lit class but another, Reading in the Content Areas, a generic one that I enjoy teaching even though it’s not my own … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Use the Same Tool Twice

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

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 →

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Real Need — Virtual Solution

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

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 →

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PLUperfect Tense

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

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 →

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Creative Chaos

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

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 →

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