Invite To Everyone in FLE.

Please help make a WORDLE.

I’d like to create a Flexible Learning Environment image/logo for the Skype podcasts. Could everyone respond in the comments with 10 words that they think describe a Flexible Learning Environment. It doesn’t matter if we repeat words – that’s what makes a Wordle interesting.

I’ll put them together in Wordle and publish them. It might be interesting to make one now and then repeat the exercise again at the end of the semester to see if we have changed our ideas.

Thanks for your help.

THE FINISHED WORDLE

I liked the way this Wordle is shaped a bit like an arrow – as though we are moving forward. Thanks everyone for your contributions, if you look carefully you should see your name.

I had a great day at the ICTEV annual conference on Saturday despite
the fact that it was Saturday! It never ceases to amaze me how the
networking is one of the best things that you get from the day. Within
every session there is the primary message and the other message that
you happen to get from the person sitting nearby or next to you. I
recommend sitting with people you don’t know because you never know
whom you will meet, what you will have in common and what you can share
and or swap.
TWITTER:
If you weren’t on it you missed the other conference! The twitterverse
was a conference within a conference. Not only did I get an instant
lesson in Twittering but gained a great network of twitterers and
bloggers to follow.

Reading through the “tweets” that went on throughout the day it seems that everyone was keeping in touch and informed through the instant messaging system. Some kept and shared notes on the sessions using twitter and on the extra activities in the intervals such as interviews and podcasts. It reminded me of the way teenagers like to work when they have their preferred instant messaging open while they are doing their homework. I think the only difference is that the twitters were trying to at least keep an educational content or purpose to their communications. (This may be a bit too harsh on teenagers but I think banning IM systems only encourages communications outside the educational sphere of learning.)
I wonder if we could use IM for the same good purposes in secondary schools with students who struggle to maintain focus. Taking notes in the traditional way doesn’t appeal to many but let them send “tweets” or other IM about the key points of the subject they are learning and I wonder what would happen? This could be an organised network with the teacher having access to the messages.

What a day- I just wish I was part of the twitter network from the beginning of the conference!I