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Why blog? e-flections …

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Both at The MIL Programme and in the CCK08 blogging is a theme. Paul Lowe, author of the “E-flections” blog, whom I just discovered has created a slideshow presenting arguments for blogging based on Donald A. Schön and Harry Potter among others – it’s really worth checking out!

In general Lowe’s blog seems to be very interesting and relevant covering many topics within the field of e-learning – also Lowe is an award-winning freelance photographer, so the blog is filled with visual goodies :-)  I’m really looking forward to exploring this some more ..

It’s also available on Slideshare

Thanks to Joan Vinall-Cox for pointing me in that direction … BTW, I’m amazed by Joan’s ability to keep up with the lastest trends and tools .. suspect it has something to do with her PLE/network ;-)

/Mariis

Book release: Digital Media and Didactical Design

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Today we have a book release; ”Digital Media and Didactical Design – use, experiences and research”. Together with Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld and MIL alumni Torben Iversen, Ulla Konnerup, Merete Lindemann, Steener Oxbjerre, Torben Pihler and Dorthe S. Schmidt I’ve written an article on collaboration in virtual learning environments based on Master thesis work. It is in Danish though, and so will the rest of this post be ..

Antologien er redigeret af Lars Birch Andreasen, Bente Meyer og Pernille Rattleff og har bidrag fra en række forskere, der diskuterer deres erfaringer med og forskning i brug af digitale medier i undervisnings- og læringssammenhænge.

Antologien er dedikeret til professor Birgitte Holm Sørensen som hyldest til hendes arbejde og betydning for forskningen i medier, it og læring i de seneste årtier.

I denne anledning er der reception på DPU torsdag d. 25. september 2008 kl. 16 i vandrehallen (lokale D170), Tuborgvej 164, 2400 København NV.

Alle er velkomne!

Kort anmeldelse i Folkeskolen.dk kan læses her

/Mariis

Pernille Rattleff om bogens tilblivelse

MIL’s 2 new Honorary Professors

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Friday evening at the MIL seminar we always have a nice dinner usually with singing and other social activities, and this time around it was even more festive, since 2 members of MIL’s steering committee, Bo Fibiger (University of Aarhus) and Oluf Danielsen (Roskilde University), were appointed honorary professors to the MIL programme at Aalborg University.

I have known Bo and Oluf for many years now, and they really are two of my favorite colleagues, not only because of their expert competencies but most of all because they are such amazing people with great wit, strategic and diplomatic intelligence and general life wisdom, which always make it a pleasure to be in their company.

As a member of MIL’s steering committee, Janni Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School) pointed out Bo and Oluf also ensure a good working climate in and around the steering committee, which otherwise is heavily influenced by 3 willful, but also very heartworm women besides Janni, namely Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld (Aalborg University), Elsebeth K. Sorensen (Aarhus University) and Birgitte Holm Sørensen (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University)… All in all we must consider ourselves privileged to have Bo and Oluf among us in the MIL community :-)


Bo Fibiger & Oluf Danielsen

Congratulations!

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MIL f2f kick-off seminar

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For the next 3 days we’ll be having our f2f kick-off seminar at the Masterprogramme in ICT and Learning (MIL). Since we only meet our students f2f 4 times a year these seminars are very special and important. It’s always great seeing colleagues, 2nd year students and especially our new 1st year students :-)

It has also become tradition for MIL Alumni to show up Friday to participate in lectures and social activities, incl. the dinner and sometimes after party, so I don’t expect to be online much for the next couple of days!

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Presenting “Learning Theory” in Wisdomap

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On Monday September 1st my dear colleague Jørgen Lerche Nielsen (RUC) and I will officially start our 4 week course on “Learning Theory” at the Masterprogramme in Ict and Learning (MIL).

At an upcoming f2f seminar in mid Septeber we have roughly 1 hour to introduce the field of learning theories! Fortunately we have the following weeks to elaborate and clarify questions in the students online discussions, and learning theory will be a recurring topic for the students to adress throughout the education.

At the seminar we usually present via ppt, but this year we’re trying to do things a bit different by using Wisdomap. I have started to fill out the wisdomap for the course;

What I really appreciate about wisdomap is that we can collect all course ressources in one place:

  • mind-map
  • text
  • videos
  • images
  • files
  • links

As far as I can tell the four guys behind Wisdomap released the tool in July – and they are still working on improving it. Even though I’m quite enthusiastic about wisdomap as it is, some of the features I – especially as an educator – would like to see in the future include:

  1. the possibility to insert a ppt in the text-box (should open in the box)
  2. the possibility to edit text and insert links (also in the nodes)
  3. the possibility to upload other videos than YouTube
  4. the possibility to use Danish characters like æ, ø and å
  5. the possibility to choose/change the colour of the nodes

It’ll be quite interesting to hear what our students think of this way of presenting and collecting ressources ..

/Mariis