Alexander Hayes: March 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Mrs. Burk : TeacherTube

Check out this rockin chick......woops....teacher.

Well by gosh...how to make really boring content into a re-usable learning object 101. This rocks Mrs. Burk.

It goes by "... How to REALLY Use The TI-84 Graphing Calculator - Part 1- Tips on how to get the most usage out of your calculator. No previous knowledge assumed."

Well well. I wonder how it will be before one smart Alec will garnish a whole nation and get SMH to ban TeacherTube cause teachers are just gettin' downright nasteee !

Shakin that butt !

Oh......here's the metal version of all the things you know about and dont want to say.....in words so why not TeacherTube it ?

Woot.

Get it onnnnnnnnnnnn !

Ps. Either that or curl up and groan in embaressment.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Wikipedia

And you thought wikipedia was just another dictionary - think not.

Imagine where it's taking fact and the description of history to nowadays.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Blah Blah

It has taken six weeks and an awful lot of of arguing and bickering but it finally looks like we have come up with a three stage business plan to be implemented over the next three years.

It seemed like we would never get there with all our differences and the complex nature of it all however, I'm so awfully proud that we got it pinned down and now have something substantial to present at the next ICAC meeting.

Well done team !

Sunday, March 18, 2007

FLNW2

Today I built the FLNW2 page with the world. I'm exhausted and happy.

WikiEducator rocks.

FLNW2

Saturday, March 17, 2007

E-Portfolios : More Dribble

Look at the dribble that FlickrCC brings up with "e-portfolio". Oh and....

Well , well.

Helen C. Barrett, PHD. ©2007 must be taking the piss with this one ....

How to create an electronic portfolio with WordPress

"....Purpose........... In this example, we will use an electronic portfolio to provide formative feedback on student work. ...."

Formative ? * quizically stumped look, jaw down, dribble*

".....Identify how you are going to organize the portfolio. Will it be around the outcomes, goals or standards that you identified in this first step? "

Outcomes, goals ? Oh man.... *feigns headache*

"....Set up a “parent” page that will serve as the opening page/Introduction to the portfolio"

Uh huh. * slaps forhead *

Then add lots of fancy words like artefacts, collection and standard and splice in some emotional rubbish like heart and soul and connection and interaction and dialogue and charge $500 US to yabber on about it.

Shoot me if I EVER engage with learners using a WP as an E-portfolio.

I've said it before - the entire internet is a portfolio. What's with E ?

Students need access to PHD graduates who live networked literacy, who instill the importance of digital identity, who advocate for open web publishing not in a box and whose standards are cognisant of one simple fact.

The internet is the e-portfolio.

Maybe two.

Learners need critical digital literacy skills to access, navigate and proportion real value to their creations.

Dang.

Friday, March 16, 2007

WWW3 As PLE : Mark as RSS Mentor

On the agenda at the TALO Swapmeet in Adelaide, Australia blogger colleague Graham Wegner raised ( razed ? ) the ambient tones with his renditions on what for me has become another capitalist push/sell product substantiation in schools and education settings - globally better of for known as the PLE.

Spread liberally throughout his blog is the term PLE for want of a better acronym - search it and look for Barrett.

In a box. One size fits the class. Or a series of spaces scraped into one management system which hopefully plugs into another one two years down the track when the learner graduates from university at the ripe old age of nineteen and assumes a rotating case workers role with the Department Of Community Services as a social worker and re-enrols in the third option they originally chose at the local polytechnic - multimedia mayhem.

Mark van Harmelen does a better job of PLE interrogation than I'll ever have time to afford it. Best I leave it to those who want to discover something through years of research and a Phd.

Better still why not go back a bit further and see what Mark Diggs . Or better still check out this PLE and social networks bibsonomy that makes my already spinning he do a complete 360.
Or check out where the CLCommunity left off whilst we gethered our thoughts and tackled the prims in SecondLife. Or wonder why and what's become of the Web 2.0 debate. Does too much money mean we abandon all sense and make rules as to how to use blogs and wiki's . Erk !

More rules suck big time. For whom the bell tolls.

There's too much out there for me to think that an LMS is a model of anything except for controlling knowledge and effecting admin. I dont care what brand does what - if it dosent transport then yuck. If it dosent allow open digital rights economy and digital media literacy the double yuck.

I consider my PLE as 'alexanderhayes ' - my name, my tag, my PLE. It will never change and I'll never be able to breastfeed.

The internet and all of of it's tendrils are my networked learning engine . I have no need for anything more than access and the ability to export.

I trust that the internet as we know it wont die my life time. I trust in it. The www knows more of me that I know of it.

What we will be battling with is how to integrate things like Zimbra, WikiEducator and BibSonomy into our aged educational architectures.

I concur with Leigh when he states " the internet is my PLE". It's mine too although my web presence probably dates back a little further. Only cause I'm older :-)

Thanks Mark. You rock.

Skype me some time : mobology

Ps. virtual micro-mentors ....got a feed for that ?

Pss. another take over here at Graham's post-moderated space.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

TALO : SwapMeet Fly-By

Click To Play Meet The Outer Circle

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Art Links

Check these out.

Better check them myself !

Friday, March 9, 2007

A2K V DMCA

One person that REALLY impressed me at the recent TALO Swapmet gig was Janet over at Lucychilli - an apt definitive for clear-cut FOSS and OS advocacy.

Not too say that I did'nt felt any real difference from meeting with Bill Kerr, Graham Wegner, Peter Allen , Al Upton and all the others present. They rock and they roll.

Janet's discussion on copyright, open alliance schools and OWP really blew me away. I wished I'd had time to tell her so. What a mind.

Oh well. That's what the web is for. We are all blogging on the same engine.

Some of us just operate in manual and some in automatic.

Who's The Teacher Now ?

Everyday For Six Years

Response

The connection is what matters.

* ps. The trick is to have both videos playing at the same time.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Rebel : Why We Got The Cane

Corporal punishment ceased to be in my secondary school in Year Nine. Hardly enough time to read Puberty Blues or get hard on's in shaggin' wagon's in an era of brown and orange sleek laminex.

I got three of the cane ( three sturdy whacks for swinging in my chair ) that year.

It's a paradox that I now attend meetings of similarly inculcated educational TALO technologists, today, here at the TALO Swapmeet here in Adelaide, even if Bill Kerr would have us think we are a pose of dis-similar and disparate theorists and educational philosophers who exhibit the same admired nad referenced disfunctionality.

On a more pertinent note.

I'd like to thank sincerely Graham Wegner for providing me with accomodation whilst I'm here in Adelaide. It's an honour to meet Graham and his family and to speak with him about the morereal core issues of what it means to be an educator these days. I dont often get the oppportunity to kick back and discuss how to grow capability development without sounding like a completely disconnected wanker. Five stars. It's the reality that the network exists :-)

We visited the CBC and the Technology School Of The Future here in Adelaide ( on the way home from eating and celebrating impending marraiges ). From what I could make out in the dark it looks like a casino complete with Gregorian dorics, tinsel and the odd wisp of naive technology averse politic. Not that I'm one to comment on other interstate jurisdictions.

We got the cane because we dared to ask ..........but why ?

We smarted from the podium enhanced swip-swish and secretly revelled in it's clandestine fetish. Tell me you didnt and I'll prove you did / do. If nothing ......to be fair..............else it gave us cause to be dungeon masters and leather clad bears who climbed the social e-learning neptotistic tender list licking the honeypots of the social WASPS'S and DINKS'S.

Slightly off medium and certainly not well done. With a tint of the human sherry.

Tsk. Tsssssk. You suck more than the biscuit and here's why.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

TALO : Swap Meet

It's time to join the discussion.

My contribution has been to disrupt the wikispace a little however it looks like I'll be able to relinquish control and go all out debauch for the event itself......if I get there.

Some interesting people joining the foray and some from OS.

The emphasis being on the some.

Thank god the one's that matter have made an effort.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Smogger : Gargle Jargon

It's a basic list but it might be good to send to your boss when they ask you what a blog means......or what wiki's are.

Smogger ; the web 2.0 list.

I hear through the social grapevine that saying all these terms in quick succession when you are gargling a toothpaste, Listerine and spit-mix works wonders for your throat amongst other floppy web 2.0 names too complex to consider.

Others consider the second iteration of MySpace a complete trainwreck.........which will eventually become YourSpace perhaps.

".........The problem at social networking sites is that kids are doing dumb things! They are behaving badly! They are engaging in risky behavior! They are being kids! Does it not make sense to use the social networking sites in a way that might modify that behavior in a positive way?........."

What tha ?

Pimp My Web 2 Point What

At 0.99c a friend you'll definetly be popular !

Guaranteed you wont see them perform till your well and truly out of the classroom or training setting......although I heard Leigh mention that his students managed to get Rotten in when all else failed.

I'd like to hire the ICT geek that can make me look good and pretend that I know what I'm talking about when someone in my forum asks me what FOAF means. Or IMOH or MEDON or GTFOOH.

Failing that we could all go to Web 2.0 university and hang out and learn all about this stuff !

What next ? Is web 2.0 going mainstream ? Have lost our way amongst the myriad of social networking advetisements.

Or can e-learning actually benefit from the ride that social networkers and advertisers are now pimping ? I suspect they can if only they can roll down their socks, adjust their y-fronts, razzle their comb overs ( dang ...thats good :-) and strip off their cardigans or unbuckle their sandles.

Oh.....sides splitting. It's me ......I'm sure of it . What have I become ?

Uh huh............That was two for those needing some light headed links to pester others with for the day. On a more serious note however....

Beleive it or not I actaully feel like I made some headway tonight in two completely different global discussions - one with George's crowd spilling into the connectivist camp.

The other in our own homegrown Framework funded network community forum group thread post reply thing - one that mixes FOAF with foam and other sparkly bits.

Dang - what a day. So much to think about and so little synapses left to do so with.

:-)

Ps. Jacinta rocks and thats a fact.