Interview with Robyn Jay @ the Learning Conference, Montego Bay

Interview with Robyn Jay, NSW LeanScope manager
by Stephan Ridgway, 26 June 2006

Download the MP3 file (4 MB, 17 mins)

image by sridgway

Synopsis:

Stephan Ridgway (Sydney) interviews Robyn Jay on sype attending the learning conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Robyn talks about the conference, her paper and Montego Bay.

Links Relevant to the podcast:

Learning Confefrence website

Abstract of Robyn’s paper presented @ the conference

Robyn’s flickr streams

• Montego Bay photo tag
• Learning Conference photo tag

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Temple Of The Web

Today I move on from my role as Project Officer with the Connected Learning Team at the Centre for Learning Innovation, TAFE NSW.

I know much has been achieved and that innovation has been realised……….the position, story and awareness raising of social softwares, mlearning and connected learning principles are now spoken of openly and clearly. There are no regrets and my farewell gathering, lunch and so on stands testament to that which I exploded in the organisations lap……gently.

I played but a small part in this learning journey. Many people there made it possible by listening, contributing and debating.

Speaking of the journey, my story just goes on and I move with it.

I believe innovation comes out of the need to communicate more clearly with others and on a higher order, to realise a human condition not yet attained either individually and collectively.

On that note I leave CLI with the knowledge that the next part of my own online and offline journey may add a few flagstones to the path that others are paving before me.

People like Leigh Blackall for instance.

Leigh Blackall and I underwent a lengthy Skype session the other night as I’d broken my headphones for the third time and now I’ve afforded myself another pair.

Leigh had some really amazing stuff to say which still threatens to implode my way of being yet I know I’ve been on this path for a while myself in many other roles and now I have to face the fact that it’s time to take off my shoes as I enter the temple of the web. For years now, content I’ve developed and papers, images, videos and other creative endeavours have been buried amongst other digital matter like detritus gathering digital mould and dust.

For the last two weeks or so I’ve been preparing myself to go freeranging……public………bill postering…………… as I’ve become accustomed to in many other parts of my life. My family are spread far and wide, my life is distributed everywhere at once and it’s all gone mobile so whats been holding me back till now ?

DRM, copyright, LMS, telco-shackles, fear, loathing, helplessness, wit, charm, fomats, laziness, sympathy, propriety, name-gaming, misunderstanding etc.

That will always be and these elements have been and no doubt will still play a part of my own learning journey.

As I’ve watched the effects of this on myself physically and mentally over the last fortnight I observe the foyer of which I’ve now decided to enter. The shared, distributive and networked web PLE has made it’s way into my life in such a way that I have no other alternative other than to embrace the change. Many others are already ahead of me and in some ways this has made it easier as i live and learn as aprt of their learning journey.

I’m taken with how Leigh puts it, as I work far more effectively in pictures than words;

>>……..So you see, I think it quite a different and liberating thing to think about in terms of web publishing – comparing web publishing to graffiti and pavement chalk poetics.

Once we’re prepared to accept that time will wash even things digital, then we’ll realise that for our presence to persist, for our markings to remain, we must remain active in remixing, reformatting, recreating, and republishing our works so that they reappear and reappear again – copied and redistributed by others across the Net.

I think its quite liberating to let go of the obvious – that digital means recorded, and think of it as a more fluid and transitory medium. The fact that a record or archive can be dug up if you really tried is just an added benefit, but its the here and now and what we say about before that catches me…….<<>> So you see, I think it quite a different and liberating thing to think about in terms of web publishing – comparing web publishing to graffiti and pavement chalk poetics. Once we’re prepared to accept that time will wash even things digital, then we’ll realise that for our presence to persist, for our markings to remain, we must remain active in remixing, reformatting, recreating, and republishing our works so that they reappear and reappear again – copied and redistributed by others across the Net.

I think its quite liberating to let go of the obvious – that digital means recorded, and think of it as a more fluid and transitory medium. The fact that a record or archive can be dug up if you really tried is just an added benefit, but its the here and now and what we say about before that catches me.

Michael Coughlan’s session over at Talking VTE speaks a lot of what’s possible.

My story just goes on and I move with it. I believe innovation comes out of the need to communicate more clearly with others and on a higher order, to realise a human condition not yet attained individually and collectively. To realise this I need to move, at times be still and ultimately share more of myself with others……….

I kind of like version two also.

Creating Online Presence, Keynote Presentation, (TELLS) Conference, June 26th, 2006

Creating Online Presence,Keynote Presentation, Queensland TAFE English Language and Literacy Services (TELLS) Conference
June 26th, 2006

Michael Coghlan with assistance from: Terry Marler, Aiden Yeh, Barbara Dieu, Dafne Gonzalez, Marg O’Connell & Jonathan Finkelstein

Download the MP3 file (14.7 MB, 1 hr)

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Synopsis:

It is estimated that 14% of the planet over the age of 15 are now online. This number will inevitably grow, and rapidly. Many of those online are mere consumers of Internet product – they come for the shopping, the downloadable music, and the travel bargains. While some with lingering suspicion about whether the Internet and its citizens should be trusted might see the notion of online presence as a contradiction in terms (Internet presence is virtual and not real surely?) many are coming to the Internet for other reasons – to connect and interact.

Many such Netizens are staking their claim to parts of the Internet, drawing a line in the virtual sand around them, personalising these spaces, and calling them home. They have chosen to create a presence on the Internet. A proliferation of tools under the banner of social software – tools designed to promote collaboration and sharing – are making it ever easier to create this online presence and interact and connect with fellow Netizens.

This presentation will explore the notion of online presence and ask why anyone would bother to do this? Is it important? Is is something more appropriate for teachers or students? How do you do it? What are the skills required? Is it relevant for language and literacy learners? Contributions from remote language educators via a live virtual classroom will be part of the presentation. It will also demonstrate some of the tools that enable the creation of online presence, and introduce the notion of eLearning 2.0 and the complimentary new theory of Connectivism.

Links Relevant to the podcast:

URLs of the presentation:

English Advertising Class: http://english-ad.blogspot.com/

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