Hello all
Best post-conference wishes...
I agree with both Frances and Margaret - choice is important, and having options in learning sessions - and I daydream (selectively) and often use my laptop to read and write during meetings whilst feeling genuinely present and engaged. But not always. As in learning development generally, "it depends" - on context, purposes, thickness of content, people's moods, health, etc etc - and hence I agree in some ways with both Dennis and Alan! And I know some folk (cf yr tweet on that idiom, Becka!) are different and would not want too much tweeting in a meeting if it were really intrusive ... So that old idea of negotiating with students/delegates to get effective groundrules about such things is the way I'd prefer.
I'm enjoying our discussions about all this - and the important role of emotion / awareness of emotion in learning - and of the (as I see it) humanistic underpinnings of our LD practice; and likewise the initiative to critique where there are patronising, dogmatic or controlling approaches.
Cheers
John
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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frances Bell
Sent: 08 April 2009 18:44
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Subject: Re: Tweets
You might be interested to see this video (if you haven't already) based on collaborative research done by Mike Wesch and his students http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o. Multi-channel is already here, and those of us who ever day-dreamed in class could say it always was.
Frances Bell,
Learning Technology Fellow for Faculty of Business, Law and the Built Environment
Salford Business School,
University of Salford, M5 4WT
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From: learning development in higher education network on behalf of Margaret Herrington 634
Sent: Wed 08/04/2009 17:06
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Subject: Re: Tweets
Can see lots of interesting questions it raises about multi tasking and about a future for presentations as multidimensional communication events in which everyone is listening, reading, writing and talking ( physically or electronically) all together, in real time.Sorry I feel a headache coming on.....
....I can cope just so long as twittering and tweeting don't become compulsory....and thence that students do not turn up saying that they are having real difficulties with the twittering requirement of their course!!!
But..brilliant to hear of a conference in which people are refreshed and exhilarated rather than exhausted.As ever, HE has a lot to learn from Learning Development staff!
Margaret
Dr M Herrington
Visiting Professor of Education
University of Wolverhampton
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