Nah, just a word smith (amateur class). Probably from having too much laughing whilst reading Terry Pratchett and his Discworld fantasy novels. :-)<br> <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld</a>><br>
<br>Seriously though, some of you already know that a decade ago I was helping pen a science fiction novel. After a several chapters I fell out with the co-writer and now only have half space adventure with a cliff hanger launch of a Buran and other literary wounds to lick over. For the last few years I have been hiding in an obscure corner of the Internet, sulking whilst blogging, geo-tagging obscure photographs and selling ABC Friends a virtual rain water tank I made in Second Life.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/23 Kent Beveridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ro, you never cease to amaze with your talents!! Impressive knowledge of history, OR, just a ripper story teller!<br>
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Hear about the bloke who struggled and fell? At least he gave it a go!!<br>
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ROTFL 12th century? .. ow well, that could put an interesting spin on things ..<br>
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King Richard is entering into some long overdue peace negotiations with Saladin whilst Robin is doing his bit to encourage tree planting in Sherwood forest. The Mongols about to stomp over Asia toward the edge of Europe bringing a horse based telecommunications system we must engage with. My Cambodian students can consider their flourishing Khmer Empire and contribute technical variants on the construction of the Angkor Wat temple. Before the candle runs out, I'll finish carving another set of wooden clogs then pen some notes on my blog scroll and reflect on an idea of binding them together to create a 'book' ..<br>
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They reckon it will never catch on :-)<br>
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</div><div> Not sure I wanna invite 'em back to the 12th C discussion!!<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen<br>
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Subject: [elearning] No emotional connection = No learning<br>
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Here is an interesting angle on eLearning that I picked up from this 2007 blog post<br>
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<<a href="http://web.me.com/timholt/Intended_Consequenses/Intended_Consequences_Blog/Entries/2007/6/15_Not_Invited_to_the_Buffet.html#comment_37A1291C_0113_1000_81B7_CEEB57893D05" target="_blank">http://web.me.com/timholt/Intended_Consequenses/Intended_Consequences_Blog/Entries/2007/6/15_Not_Invited_to_the_Buffet.html#comment_37A1291C_0113_1000_81B7_CEEB57893D05</a>><br>
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As we bore our students by teaching with 19th century techniques and refuse to invite them to be part of the 12st century discussion about their learning, they "emotionally move away from learning and we disinvite them from process." No emotional connection = No learning.<br>
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With Moodle, I get my students to grade my questions and activities. I also openly solicit their feedback in a discussion forum. I am passionate about my year 9 Research Science course and share this with my students. I even recall a decade ago running a series of staff and student focus groups to help me define and describe the kind of 'next millennium' infrastructure we expected from our computer network. Following an invitation, we forwarded this onto Paul Dougherty, the then Education Department IT division head.<br>
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Do we currently engage students and staff in wider discussions about how eLearning should be implemented and adapted? When I consider the current blind push to deploy a commercial Ultranet solution, I am now not surprised that there is no real emotional connection and ownership. Although it is interesting to read reports of implementing pilot school reports, nothing beats asking grass root users what they think to develop a sense of ownership in order to build an emotional connection. This would have been easy to do but seems to have been ignored.<br>
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Perhaps like some of our students, we have been disinvited from the decision making process.<br>
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What do others think?<br>
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