I am working backwards but there ya go who cares. The first day of the conference was cool.
I went to 3 sessions
Session one was the best of the day for me as I listened to Linda Wright and Michelle Eady from Northern Onterio talk about their project teaching with 1st Nation children with the use of synchronous and asynchronous technologies, fascinating stuff. I was approached afterwards to talk about possibilities ōf connecting with NZ kids. I really look forward to hearing from Michelle about this. You can find out more about their excellent project at:
Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council
The second session was about C.I.D.E.R the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research while interesting it was not really my cup of tea. I will mention it to a friend of mine at work Helen who may be able to use the links to C.I.D.E.R coordinated at Athabasca University
The third session was with Adobe Connect sales team. We have been having some issues since the upgrade to adobe 6 so i wanted to see and here about adobe 7 but this has not been released yet. An alright session.
The fourth was Cam and I presenting on the VLN . The Virtual Learning Network is one of my foci's of work and has been for the last 5 years. We had about 40 people attended and a number of excellent comments were made . Very nice. A few areas of interest came out of this and I will detail these later.
We drove from Bannf to Jasper today through the Canadian Rockies what a very awesome trip.
Ī forgot to bring the cable to download the pics will post some later.
Well goodnight tired now
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
CNIE conference in Banff, Alberta Canada
At a session with Professor Stephen Heppell on the last day talking about Communities.
The first community was in the early 90's and was children centred part of the things to look at email returns and identify what age group wrote what emails and of course they got it all wrong.
notschool started with the first 100 worst kids in Britain and is still running at a 98% engagement rate (Excellent) . This is an excellent project that is still going on.
It is all asynchronous for good reasons. Go read about why?
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/socialinclusion/youngpeople/notschoolpractice.html Ultraversity http://cohort4.ultraversity.net/ Another interesting project please go and have a look, Degrees were built around the users and most never meet. Studied and worked full time for 3 years. Go read about this as well.
Talking heads was the 3rd project a community of head teachers online 21,000
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/aboutus/pressreleases/pr-121107.cfm
Communities of practice have to run on strict rules eg if set up for notschool, head teachers etc it has to be strictly by for them by them don’t let outsiders come in.
Content is not King
http://rubble.heppell.net/talking_heads/aboutth/index.htm
Excellent session thanks Stephen
The first community was in the early 90's and was children centred part of the things to look at email returns and identify what age group wrote what emails and of course they got it all wrong.
notschool started with the first 100 worst kids in Britain and is still running at a 98% engagement rate (Excellent) . This is an excellent project that is still going on.
It is all asynchronous for good reasons. Go read about why?
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/socialinclusion/youngpeople/notschoolpractice.html Ultraversity http://cohort4.ultraversity.net/ Another interesting project please go and have a look, Degrees were built around the users and most never meet. Studied and worked full time for 3 years. Go read about this as well.
Talking heads was the 3rd project a community of head teachers online 21,000
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/aboutus/pressreleases/pr-121107.cfm
Communities of practice have to run on strict rules eg if set up for notschool, head teachers etc it has to be strictly by for them by them don’t let outsiders come in.
Content is not King
http://rubble.heppell.net/talking_heads/aboutth/index.htm
Excellent session thanks Stephen
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Conference
I am at the CNIE conference in Banff, Alberta Canada.
First International Conference of the new Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE)
http://www.athabascau.ca/CNIE-RCIE/english/
It is the second day and a friend of mine professor Stephen Heppell has encouraged me to start a blog so here I am his blog is at http://www.heppell.net/weblog/stephen/
It has been interesting so far. I think will do a new posting for each bit I want to talk about.
I am in the process of re inventing the Virtual Learning Network that I manage for MoE (Ministry of Education in New Zealand it is hosted at http://virtuallearning.school.nz/
My next posting will start with day one of the conference and then day two and then I will launch into my work at the MoE and then into the redevelopment of the vln
First International Conference of the new Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE)
http://www.athabascau.ca/CNIE-RCIE/english/
It is the second day and a friend of mine professor Stephen Heppell has encouraged me to start a blog so here I am his blog is at http://www.heppell.net/weblog/stephen/
It has been interesting so far. I think will do a new posting for each bit I want to talk about.
I am in the process of re inventing the Virtual Learning Network that I manage for MoE (Ministry of Education in New Zealand it is hosted at http://virtuallearning.school.nz/
My next posting will start with day one of the conference and then day two and then I will launch into my work at the MoE and then into the redevelopment of the vln
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