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Comment on Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers by Thinking about Moodle course design « The Weblog of (a) David Jones

Thinking about Moodle course design « The Weblog of (a) David Jones — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:52:22 +0000

[...] Does have links to some useful resources. Especially the very useful Moodle tool guide. [...]

Comment on Why you should go to the PLE Conference – a flashback to 2010 #pleconf by Why you should go to the PLE Conference – a flashback to 2010 #pleconf | PLE Conference 2012

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:21 +0000

[...] [This is a cross-post from Joyce's blog at http://www.cats-pyjamas.net [...]

Comment on The 5 P’s of Path by Carol Cooper-Taylor

Carol Cooper-Taylor — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:18:30 +0000

Thanks for this Joyce I’m downloading it now. Loved your suggestion about scoop.it btw

Comment on Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers by Gemma

Gemma — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:44 +0000

Thanks for your great compilation, we have included it in our project called IMPLEMENT for developing online courses in Moodle.

Comment on Are you the education technology curator for your organisation? #curation by Penny

Penny — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:29:05 +0000

Ha! Yes, I’ve been doing this too.

What tools have you used?
To share with others? a mix of email, sharing to Ning and latterly Yammer. Most people still only check email.
How long have you been doing this? How long have you consciously been doing this?
Probably since I started back at work after maternity leave before I was in the role I’m in now. Consciously? Dunno, maybe the last 12 months.
What processes have you used?
Mainly just picking up on things I’ve read from PLN on twitter and blogs
How efficient would you say this was?
not very!
Are your digital curation activities and results warmly received or less appreciated?
for the most part yes.
And should this curation activity be seen as part of our role? And of other roles in the organisation?
Initially I would have said no, but my current role does actually have an element of “upskilling other people” so I’d say now it is.
What would happen to your organisation if that was the case?
We might see more people with better knowledge – at least I’d hope that would be the case.

Comment on About me by Joyce Seitzinger

Joyce Seitzinger — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:12:23 +0000

Hi Aljosja,
Glad you’ve found me. I didn’t lose the card, it is still safely tucked away in my travel pouch until I got round to doing something about it. Will send you an email right away so we can catch up.
Cheers,
Joyce

Comment on About me by Aljosja van Dorssen

Aljosja van Dorssen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:03:43 +0000

Hi Joyce

Here is your flying “mate” Aljosja. Am still in Asia but will fly back to our home country on Sunday night. It was great to see you few weeks back and we should stay in touch….just noticed that i did not get your email yet…..maybe you lost my card or did not get around it to it yet?

Send me your contact details please in my email ok?

See you soon, regards, Aljosja

Comment on Are you the education technology curator for your organisation? #curation by OTR Links 01/18/2012 | doug – off the record

OTR Links 01/18/2012 | doug – off the record — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:35:59 +0000

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Comment on Are you the education technology curator for your organisation? #curation by Amir Elion

Amir Elion — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:30:58 +0000

Hi Joyce,
First of all, thank you for this well-written post which summarizes and highlights important changes in learning professionals’ work and questions which we should be asking ourselves.
I have also had the fortune of knowing Hans (only virtually so far). I participated in an eye-opening experience he initiated where 20 people had a digital book reading group, on the Learning in 3d book, sharing insights, links, ideas while using tools such as twitter, blogging, delicious tagging, weekly conference call and even a group game at Quake. I love what Hans is doing, his innovative thinking and his sharing.
I do believe curation should indeed be a part of not just a learning professional’s job but actually of all in the workplace – “experts” and “novices” alike. However I agree that not all people are used or prepared for such sharing – not in their mindset nor in some basic skills on use of the tools.
I have been using various tools for similar things – twitter (including a monthly Hebrew twitter chat on learning similar to #lrnchat I am trying to establish as a tradition), LinkedIn groups, Facebook, my wordpress blog and more.
As for Moodle (and Totara – the moodle distribution feared for organizations) I did have a few chances to see it used well for curation. As a training manager at Motorola, we had some good resources shared on it. Now, at Kineo Israel, I see and help our clients do similar things. Useful tools are not just forums but also the very powerful Database activity, glossary – both can be set up to allowing content sharing and curation.
There are ways to support the success and promote participation in these. The first would be having information there which is relevant to support their work (that indeed requires quality curation). One good approach is to enlist experts and champions to lead and contribute content in a specific area of their interest.
The choice of the right tool that is also comfortable for people to use is also important. In the initial stages I found that people need some explanations and help overcoming technical and psychological barriers until they feel comfortable with the tool. Make sure you provide that help in form of post, short screencasts, tips, etc.
I have recently posted on my blog (in Hebrew amir.kineo.co.il) on the 70:20:10 learning model and how you can use various tools (on moodle and totara) to implement it. Curation is a significant part of that.

Comment on Are you the education technology curator for your organisation? #curation by Caitlin Crowley

Caitlin Crowley — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:05:52 +0000

I too have been sharing interesting articles, research and information with my colleagues via email. I set up a professional development area on the staff portal and posted links there but other educators didn’t seem to visit it regularly and wanted the information sent to them directly – they would often read information if I posted it as an announcement on the staff portal so it was on their front page. I am thinking of actually pulling all this information together and packaging it up in moodle as a professional development session. For example for the tourism/hospitality/events department drawing together information (articles, research, stats, video etc) about emerging trends in the industry and putting it into a 3 hour session with a shared wiki for sharing information and an online assignment where educators can reflect on how this information can be linked and used in specific training units. It can then count towards their professional development hours and they can immerse themselves in all this information without it being seen as “wasting time surfing the web”. If anyone is already doing this I would be keen to hear how it’s going.