• Portable Learner chihuahua

    Now, where did I put the internet?

    portable learner ~ note & port

    self-direction, new media, the world wide web of information, and, oh, the possibilites of learning in the net age.

My Learning Manifesto

September 5th, 2005
My Learning Manifesto

Self-directed learners are experimental. We try things out before really knowing how, and are always on the lookout for feedback to improve the next time round. It is this spirit of inquiry, that I’ve tried to capture in my personal learning manifesto: act like learning matters (because it does).

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The Common Loon

January 5th, 2005
The Common Loon

The Common Loon is a weblog about technology-supported lifelong learning that I used to support an independent learning course in Athabasca University’s Master of Distance Education program.

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Are You Game?

November 30th, 2004
Are You Game?

This games and sims portal is a resource site that examines the relationship between games and learners, and the implications for learning.

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Listphile

July 26th, 2004
Listphile

Listphile: Making Sense of the World One Item at a Time was my first experiment with these bloggy thingys, and was an ode to the “list.”

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Peripheral Visions

May 8th, 2004
Peripheral Visions

Peripheral Visions Workshop: A Creative Thinking Workshop for Educators offered creativity models, processes and tools to help educators break down the barriers of conventional thinking and challenge traditional assumptions.

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Interaction in Distance Education

October 20th, 2003

In classic instructional theory, interaction is the means by which learners receive feedback. But interactivity is a complex variable, uniquely so in distance education, and this paper explores some of these variables.

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On Teaching Others

June 5th, 2003
On Teaching Others

The nature of being human, professional practice and other components that make up a personal philosophy of education and training.

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The Blood Bank Strip

July 18th, 2002
The Blood Bank Strip

The Blood Bank Strip was a comic strip I drew in a previous life as a laboratory technologist for the CAIH journal. All the old strips are here.

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