Comments on: What’s in your orbit? http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/2009/07/whats-in-your-orbit/ education + technology = connection Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/2009/07/whats-in-your-orbit/comment-page-1/#comment-2704 Michael Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:45:37 +0000 http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/?p=855#comment-2704 Very jolly posting, and blog. Stuff I've been reading recently suggests that learners augment their institution's VLE with other technologies, but I'm beginning to think it's the other way around. Learners have their palette of technologies and then draw in resources from their institution's VLE where necessary. I taught at a university in London where our dept had an expensively assembled VLE (including 30k spent on courses supplied by an outside provider). We achieved fair results, but when we used Wordpress to start up an 'online bulletin board' it was more successful, and yet there was no expenditure in setting it up. Right now the base of my screen shows that I'm running Outlook, a task list, two working documents in Word and my OU student profile. I always have a range of resources available for whatever projects I'm engaged in. All I need now is a screen in the shape of an artist's palette. Very jolly posting, and blog.

Stuff I’ve been reading recently suggests that learners augment their institution’s VLE with other technologies, but I’m beginning to think it’s the other way around. Learners have their palette of technologies and then draw in resources from their institution’s VLE where necessary.

I taught at a university in London where our dept had an expensively assembled VLE (including 30k spent on courses supplied by an outside provider). We achieved fair results, but when we used WordPress to start up an ‘online bulletin board’ it was more successful, and yet there was no expenditure in setting it up.

Right now the base of my screen shows that I’m running Outlook, a task list, two working documents in Word and my OU student profile. I always have a range of resources available for whatever projects I’m engaged in. All I need now is a screen in the shape of an artist’s palette.

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]]> By: Karl Duff http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/2009/07/whats-in-your-orbit/comment-page-1/#comment-2315 Karl Duff Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:00:46 +0000 http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/?p=855#comment-2315 Hi Katherine Enjoyed reading your blog this evening, when we have a blog related task I often come to yours first. I also enjoyed looking at your mindmap, i recently did a mindmap for the course I run for new learners to get an idea of all the activities involved and it looked quite like yours! unfrotunately my PLE for weeks 21/22 was quite a boring but clear Compendium map focused mostly on formal learning with refernce to informal areas: http://learn.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/view.php?user=451652 I hope though week 23 will bring my PLE back to its creative routes! Karl Hi Katherine
Enjoyed reading your blog this evening, when we have a blog related task I often come to yours first. I also enjoyed looking at your mindmap, i recently did a mindmap for the course I run for new learners to get an idea of all the activities involved and it looked quite like yours! unfrotunately my PLE for weeks 21/22 was quite a boring but clear Compendium map focused mostly on formal learning with refernce to informal areas: http://learn.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/view.php?user=451652 I hope though week 23 will bring my PLE back to its creative routes!
Karl

]]> By: Mark Collins http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/2009/07/whats-in-your-orbit/comment-page-1/#comment-2209 Mark Collins Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:46:33 +0000 http://www.virtuallyscholastic.com/?p=855#comment-2209 Hi Katherine, Enjoyed reading this piece on your PLE; fabulous mind map. I too had difficulties trying to decide the criteria for inclusion in my PLE diagram. Without much thought I guess I took learning to mean anything I feel I get value from both in a formal or informal environment as we are probably learning all the time. Its difficult to step off the learning curve unless you are sleeping. It would be interesting to see what criteria others use to include or chop from their PLE. Regards MarkC Hi Katherine,

Enjoyed reading this piece on your PLE; fabulous mind map. I too had difficulties trying to decide the criteria for inclusion in my PLE diagram. Without much thought I guess I took learning to mean anything I feel I get value from both in a formal or informal environment as we are probably learning all the time. Its difficult to step off the learning curve unless you are sleeping. It would be interesting to see what criteria others use to include or chop from their PLE.

Regards
MarkC

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