About Me
Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Category Archives: plenk2010
What I learned in PLENK2010
Short answer … not much. At least that’s how it appears to me at the moment.I do know that I’m all PLENKED out, somewhat depressed and not looking forward to immersing myself in #jiscel10.Perhaps it’s a symptom of SAD, or … Continue reading
Socratic questioning – Week 7 in #PLENK2010
Socrates Week 7 in PLENK2010 was concerned with PLE/N tools (What Exists, What is Being Built?): Many of the tools that fit under the PLE/N umbrella have been appropriated by educators from other fields. This isn’t necessarily a problem, but … Continue reading
I, The Thinker
At PLENK2010 participant Heli Nurmi’s request (see Test Your Blog Please), I submitted the URL of this blog to http://www.typealyzer.com/ to have it subjected to a Myers-Briggs personality test. It turns out that these scribblings reveal me to be an … Continue reading
The Unconceivability of Digital Literacy
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. – Inigo Montoya, the (film of) The Princess Bride. Novel and screenplay by William Goldman. This week, I was in Gegynog at the final … Continue reading
Life under the microscope
Today’s live #PLENK2010 session was ostensibly about assessment in a Personal Learning Environment but it seemed to be more about how PLENK2010 (the research project) could assess whether the participants (us) could assess their own learning or indeed whether or … Continue reading
Friendfeed groups – a social network for PLENK2010?
In response to George Siemens’ Week 4 discussion topic “Is it the topic or the period in the course?“, Vahid Masrour said “I have a suggestion… posted in my blog [Where is MOOC's social network?"], but in a nutshell, i … Continue reading
PLENK2010 – It’s a Marathon not a Sprint!
Losing Contact! The faciltators said we couldn’t possibly read everything, but I feel like I’ve not read anything from Weeks 4 and 5. As you can see there’s a huge amount of discussion going on in the Week 4 forum … Continue reading
No PLENK this week
Apart from multitasking through the two Elluminate sessions this week and “curating” the course materials in my Week 4 Pearltree, I’ve hardly participated in #PLENK2010 this week. It’s not because of the week four effect discussed in Dave Comier’s blog … Continue reading
Week 3: The eXtended Web
This week’s PLENK2010 topic is an exploration of what Steve Wheeler has called Web 3.0, Stephen Downes has christened Web X, George Siemens calls xWeb and Rita Kop calls the eXtended Web. I prefer Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s name of the … Continue reading
A day in the PLENK
At the end of the Beatles’ seminal Sergeant Pepper album is the track “A Day in the Life.” Those who’ve heard it will know that right at the end of the track, and therefore the album, is the climax in … Continue reading
