Archive for the ‘networking’ Category
The difference between anonymity and invertebrate tendency…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2011
- In: GLOW | ICT | LTS | networking
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Those of you who were about on Twitter a couple of weekends ago will remember that I was a little annoyed about an anonymous comment which somebody had left on my blog for publication… I would never publish an anonymous comment, unless I knew the person who sent it and they asked me to [...]
Reports of the death of blogging have been greatly exagerated !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 24, 2011
- In: Literacy | networking | PLN | sustainability
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So teens are going off blogging and turning increasingly to social networking sites such as Twitter instead. So says a recent article in the New York Times I came across, courtesy of the Smart Brief on EdTech. Some interesting comment, particularly about the reasons for this apparent switch. One of these was the time taken [...]
Inter professional dialogue as CPD
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
The Emperor’s new clothes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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“Your Majesty,” the prime minister said, “we have a request for you. The people have found out about this extraordinary fabric and they are anxious to see you in your new suit.” The Emperor was doubtful showing himself naked to the people, but then he abandoned his fears. After all, no one would know about [...]
MJ Online article
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 25, 2009
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Here’s the link to the article by Merlin on agent4change.net. Thanks for all the comments so far on twitter http://www.agent4change.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=462:the-innovators-5-jaye-richards&catid=90:the-innovators&Itemid=460
Moving forward with IT
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 9, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | CPD | future of education | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | LTS | networking | Quality assurance | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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The recent OFSTED report , talking about ICT initiatives in England and Wales makes the following point… despite the heavy investment in ICT there was no evidence of the “systematic evaluation of the impact on learning” Read the report summary, courtesy of Merlin John online here… http://bit.ly/hUxZE I’ve often written about my own feelings on [...]
New term – New job…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 29, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | CPD | games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | networking | PLN | teaching and learning
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It’s been a really intense school year, what with the onward march of GLOW, a couple of research projects, ACfE, and the ‘BrainBoosters’ primary/secondary games-based learning project. Lots of interesting work so the feeling of moving slowly towards the summer break was really kicking in last week big time. Add to this another knee operation, [...]
Seth Godin on Tribes and leadership
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 27, 2009
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I know many have read Seth’s latest book ‘Tribes’….there’s a great TED talk he gave in February here.. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
Professional learning networks…but personal too…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 20, 2009
- In: networking | PLN
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This was going to be my second post on the Islay Education 2020 unconference, but that’s going to have to wait a little. I’ve just come out of hospital after having an operation on my knee. It was one of those not-too-serious ops, but one which has a reputation for being quite painful during recovery. [...]
Education 2020 and Islay High School 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 16, 2009
Arriving at Islay High School early last Friday morning in the glorious sunshine, it was easy to forget the 0400hrs start from Glasgow. Some great company and conversation in the car with David Noble, Maureen Park and driven by Katie Barrowman and so the journey up to Kennacraig passed by through some amazing scenery in [...]
Education2020 and the Islay iPhone convention 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 14, 2009
I’ve just returned from a really great weekend away. I’ve been in Islay, where as well as the Education2020 unconference (much more about that in my next post) they were holding this year’s iPhone convention. The streets, bars and hotels were packed full of folk extolling the virtues of their little slabs of black plastic [...]
School Science Summit
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 6, 2009
I was invited to take part in the Scottish Government School Science Summit earlier this week. Thought-provoking questions, some great discussions, and very good to see all stakeholders engaging in the debate on a change agenda for science. Interesting speech from Fiona Hyslop and some great stuff from Jack Jackson. And great to network, and [...]
Chapter 8 of A digital Fairy Tale – The end is in sight
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 6, 2009
After a wee spell of writer’s block , and some extreme self-censorship, I’ve finally done chapter 8. You can find it on the education 2020 wiki as usual… As the Islay Unconference draws ever nearer, the fairytale is getting closer to reaching its explosive climax… And the unconference is looking to be really good, something special, with [...]
Building Windmills 09…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 13, 2009
- In: capacity-building | CPD | GLOW | ICT | networking | PLN
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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
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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 signing off…. of sorts
Posted by: mimanifesto on: December 13, 2008
- In: change | GLOW | ICT | networking | teaching and learning | VLE
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The GLOW learn training course at Stirling this week was another fantastic opportunity to meet folk from all around the country who are using GLOW day in day out in the classroom. As ever, the attention to detail and quality of training delivered by the RM GLOW team was superb. It’s a very difficult task [...]
Merlin John online
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 19, 2008
- In: GLOW | networking | teaching and learning
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Merlin has written an article on his online service about my experiences with GLOW and educational philosophy in general. It’s based on a chat we had at SLF this year. I have to admit I enjoyed our conversations and my own sense of ‘unloading’ which made up much of the material for his piece. You [...]
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