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Thought Fest 09 – Manchester

It has been a great honor for us being envited to the thought fest 09 at salford university – Manchester, UK. We got the possibility to present in a workshop our experiences in podcasting on higher education. Now it will be the time to leave – but will the thoughtfest still end? No, i think it will hall sustainable inside us. It is really hard to describe the mood and spirit outgoing of this event. It is at one hand the feeling of getting peoples met, you already seem to know a bit by their digital tracks, you on short or long distance. At the other hands it is the undescribable feeling of adding new friends – all sharing the same: Make the best in the use of web2.0,  in higher education.

Two discussions had a great output i want to mention here: the first discussion happend in the first hour of the event. Catching the topic of digital idendities, which will be a raising topic in future, all got very directly and hard inside. The other discussion is still present in the inner eye, because it has been shortly before the final ending session: What can practicioners learn from the researchers and the other way around.    I am really courious about the summarized outcome, because there was a lot of soul based input in this argumentation, which could be useful for future devlopment strategies.

So – writing this lines on the last day of our stay in Manchester, there is the question – was this the end of the thought fest 09? Hopefully not. For many reasons. First it seems that this was the end of a physical presence – but it still sustains in the networks. People were twittering that they arrived securely at home, people are twittering that they want to go next and figuring out the best location. People are sharing their summaries, their outcomes and hopefully there will be seeded some more experience, more energy to continue, more new topics which can be solved project based in the future.

Very interesting was the spirit of many of us, bridging to the interested world outside. There ere streams of the live sessions etc.

So thought fest 09 – for me – reached a spike and did one of the best things I can imagine   – it made curious to other people fields topics, it made known each other and it makes learning from each other.

Bis denne

Andreas Auwärter

Check out the reports from others here:

@Josie Fraser http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2009/03/thoughtfest-09.html
@Pat Parslow http://brains.parslow.net/ThoughtFest09

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Teaching like in a role play

… really inspired by Alec Couros blog post, which contains a lot of thoughts and discussion I got myself thinking about the there used understanding of a teachers role.  Yes, the sherpa image there is valuable for many situations a teacher or educator is acting, taking responsibility, guiding without determining the students interest and networking and informative flow. Why i felt a bit unsure using one to one this metaphor has another reason than the layer of correctness or true or not.

So here an invitation in the way thinking about an additional picture on the teachers role. To be honest – it is more a parable than a complete visualisation and so I would like to explain the way through it before. Underlining the question I am sure everybody should have asked himself more than once: What is the moment in your educational action which makes you feeling satisfied – specified on the question of the use of social media, eLearning2.0 or how it can be called. 

Reflecting on my own teaching practice this are those moments, everybody is in action – fulfilling his task – getting his role. It is still this feeling seeing everybody in the group of learning actors getting into the real play, which should be the parabolic moment which matches the reality best. Outgoing from this moment – which raised up immediately after being asked how I would see the educators and learners roles in the play of this – here my thoughts, to enrich this. So if we see the scene as in a role play, what are the borders of the stage? It could be the world wide endless stage we are designated to. It could be the stage to those who are interested in the plays content. It Could be the stage to those who want to get inspired by the actors. But who are the visitors in this stage? To be honest – what if the imagination would create a role play with no real visitors. Even passive recipients are taking part in this play – but more as a hyaline mass than appearing individually sharp. It would be a fine vision dreming of a role play – everybody can appear as part of. Recognizing so – we could learn a lot on what actors are learning about themselve during they are playing the role. Thinking so – and reflecting back: Teachers role was the initial at the start – it was the guidance to get all on stage – it will be the reflectant collecting the valuables impressions during the play itself conserving this process steps for the individual development – and it could be also the role of the participant – aiming to be allowed active into the progress of this play – as a learner.    

Leaving the parable now, i would like to ask the reader, what are your images – on teaching experience which made you feeling like a plan which succeeded? Would you like to share? Have you your own ………

Bis denne

Andreas

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Das Finden ist oft Gluecksache. Delicious macht aus zwei Augen viele. Wer zu den Themen etwas beitragen kann und will, der trete meinem Netzwerk bei. Wenn ich dann noch weiss, was andere begeistert, suche ich gerne mit.

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  • ABC – Huell – … auf der neuen Website des ABC Bildungs- und Tagungszentrums.

    Unsere Tagungshäuser sind für große und kleine Gruppen geeignet. Zur Verfügung stehen das Haupthaus, der Stall und unser Multimediazentrum, das Sp@ghetti-Haus.

    Im Bildungsprogramm finden Sie zahlreiche Seminare für die politische, kulturelle und berufliche Weiterbildung.

  • Why do/would you use backchannel applications? – Spaces of Interaction
  • The NOSE : Facebook’s New Terms of Service Has Twitter World Buzzing
  • Sketchory – Bilder und Karrikaturen zur CC verfügung
  • The Anonymity Project (Video Preview) – After the 94 articles activity I reported about here 2 weeks ago, my research team (”students”) began crafting their research proposals. These were then aggregated into one collaborative proposal showing how each project is related to the others. In the meantime, they have also been learning the language of video; gathering clips, pictures, and techniques for demonstrating their proposals in compelling ways. Most of them had never edited video before, and yet here we are just 4 weeks into the semester and they have already mastered the basics and created some interesting work. The video below is simply some of the best of their 16 “trailers” mashed together to give you a glimpse into the project we hope to create throughout the rest of this semester. We call the project: “The Fight for Significance in the Age of the Microcelebrity: Anonymity, Anonymous, Smart Mobs, Mad Mobs, Bot Mobs and the Great American Poets”
  • open thinking » Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching – Illustrations and deep thoughts from alec couros of connected social learning in institutions.
  • Innovation Happens Elsewhere – The Authors abstract: "
    Open Source as Business Strategy -Ron Goldman -Richard P. Gabriel
    This is an online version of our open source book based on the version published by Morgan Kaufmann in April 2005. We post it online in the hopes that people will find it useful. Feel free to link to it.This book is intended for anyone considering using Open Source. It describes what open source is, discusses business reasons for using open source, and describes how an open source project works in a day-to-day manner. It will help you decide on whether open source is right for your project, and, if so, what steps you should take to proceed and some mistakes you should avoid."
  • http://www.lernundenter.com/interaktion/podcasts/podcasting3.pdf – News lernundenter Ausgabe 81|01|2009|ISSN 1660 7090
    www.lernundenter.comRosmarie Voegtli‐Bossart + Ursula Bohren Magoni
  • Bundesweiter Fernstudientag 2009 » Liste: Weiterbildung auf Twitter – das Update ist fertig! – Liste der Aktiven twitterer mit dem Kontext Weiterbildung – Deutschland!

Das Finden ist oft Gluecksache. Delicious macht aus zwei Augen viele. Wer zu den Themen etwas beitragen kann und will, der trete meinem Netzwerk bei. Wenn ich dann noch weiss, was andere begeistert, suche ich gerne mit.

"Literatur, die mich was lehrte…"

 

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Bücher

Kennt Ihr sie alle noch, die Listen mit Literaturangaben, die allseits Seminare an der Uni begleiten. Hinter die Buchstaben zu blicken, das war das Anliegen der AG. Deswegen hat sie eine eigene Rubrik in Ihrem Podcast gestaltet. Mit der Frage „Welche Literatur hat Sie/Dich etwas gelehrt“ wurden Dozenten in den Dialog gebeten.

 

  • Die Mission: Subjektive Zugänge zu den Werken abbilden.
  • Die Randbedingung: Neben der Beschränkung auf „nur“ drei Werke den Zugang und die persönliche Einstellung zu dem über das Buch vermittelten inhalt weitergeben.
  • Die Herausforderung: Alles, Literatur, Zugänge und beigemessene Bedeutung in Interviewform „herauskitzeln“.
  • Das Ergebnis: In einem andauernden Prozess kann es über eine eigene Kategorie und Feed im Podcast „Bildung im Dialog“ nachverfolgt werden.     

Die Zukunft? Wir werden diese Reihe hoffentlich weiterführen, insofern wir interessante Interviewpartner hierzu finden. Die Studierenden berichten uns wie sehr es ihnen hilft.

Die letzte Episode hierzu kann übrigens hier im enhanced Format und hier im reinen mp3 Format gehört werden. Hier im Interview Barbara Wolf und Ihre Auswahl.

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BiD_Cover

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Podcast Bildung im Dialog über das Studieren im Ausland

Studieren im Ausland, das war das selbstgewählte Schwerpunktthema in der AG-Podcasting. Was man alles beachten muß? An wen muss man sich wenden? Was bringt es mir im Lebenslauf? Solche Fragen standen in beginnenden Brainstorming. Das Endergebnis – und damit verbindet die AG auch Grüße in die weite Welt – kann nun hier (im enhanced Format) und hier (in der pure MP3 Version) betrachtet / gehört werden. Viel Vergnügen.

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