Archive for February 2009
Nobody ever built a statue…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 17, 2009
of a committee…
This was the slogan on an advertising poster I saw today on the underground whilst waiting for a train home. Interesting, I thought, and maybe true. How many of us veer towards the ‘vanilla’ tendency, preferring to hide our true views and beliefs rather than come out and declare one way or the [...]
What’s your ‘Brand’ ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 16, 2009
I wrote a blog post a while ago in which I posited the view that subject specialism was a self-definition too far for me, and that I would always prefer to define my role in education by my job (teacher) rather than my subjects (Biology and Psychology). This was again brought sharply into focus during [...]
A Digital Fairy tale for the 21st century – Part 5
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2009
Chapter 5 of the fairy tale has now been published on the education 2020 wiki
The usual disclaimers apply, etc etc etc
Building Windmills 09…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 13, 2009
- In: CPD| GLOW| ICT| PLN| capacity-building| networking
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Mike Coulter, one of the country’s leading web 2.0 exponents has produced a superb slideshow of the ‘Twitterati’ in action at the recent National CPD team conference ‘Building Windmills’. You can find it on the CPD team blog. It’s a superb example of how personal learning networks can utilise the power of web 2.0 social networking [...]
Employees should be taught political skills…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 7, 2009
- In: GLOW| change| networking
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…is the conclusion of some of the latest research in organisational psychology. The British Psychological Society publish a monthly digest of the latest research papers to subscribers. It’s often full of interesting research summarised in easy to read form. Its also provides topical comment on many of the areas covered by the Higher and Intermediate [...]
A Digital Fairy-Tale for the 21st century.. Chapter 4
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 7, 2009
Chapter 4 of the fairy-tale is now written and published over on the education 2020 wiki..
http://education2020.wikispaces.com/A+Fairytale
Of course, any resemblance to places and people past, present or future is entirely without cause or intention and should not be taken as indicative of any criticism or endorsement of views therein or held by such people of places blah [...]
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