Jay\’s Mutterings

Just thought I would put down some of the notes from the last couple of days as we had a 2 day orientation session at QUT
The Admin person that can sort out any problems that I have is Cian Rodgie phone 31383936

The library liaison person gave us a couple of links for msn if we need to contact her
qut_librian@hotmail.com (sometimes uses this one)
constancex90@hotmail.com (uses that more at home etc)
I can change my library profile and if I check the box to keep a history of what I have borrowed. This could be useful when referencing books or remembering what I have read etc. I will check it out a bit later.
Google Scholar is something I haven’t used but it can be found in my igoogle page under a blue menu called more>>
Google scholar is really good for referencing articles as well as EndNote. I think we have access to this at Bremer so it will be interesting to learn how to use this in more detail.

EDN610 Professional dialogues in education
two areas we are looking at. The first is looking at ourselves and what were the catylists for the changes in our lives and why we are doing what we are doing now.
Until you can lead you need to know how you got there. This topic is the first assignment. the lecture suggests that we don’t go too deep but some thoughts that came to me straight away were
change of schools
David’s influence
MLC
options – females/geology
maths – RMIT-Travel NZ
Computers family career, Richlands,

should try the personal style inventory by R Craig Hogan + David W Champagne

free software that converts Powerpoint to flash I-spring and it is free. Must tell Robyn as well.

One of the second semester units is EDM611 a research one.
We talked about Research is an organised and systematic way of finding answers to questions By organised we mean that research always has a definite sequence. Systematic means structured method, planned, focused. Finding answers means the reason for the research. Questions means the Central issues, provides focus and purpose. We will be looking at Research fallicies, ecological research where conclusions are made about individuals based on an analysis of group data. Also Exception fallacy where conclusions are made about a group based on exceptions or individual data.
Methods of acquiring knowledge.
Tenacity – based on superstition or habit
Intuition – based on a belief or faith
Authority – based on the strength of the source
Rationalism – based on logic and strength of reasoning
Empiricism – based on observation or experiment
Scientific – based on reality and repeatable proof
assignments in this subject can be uploaded rather than go through the Assignment minder (posting in )
CLN601 Cyberlearning
Weeks 1 – 3 general familiarisation of blackboard and using blogs and assignment upload. We also have to explore a new piece of software or technology, animoto (talking avetar – might be useful for me) or something like cloud computing.
We will be using a blog in blackboard and uploading our assignments into the blog. we will also be looking at a wiki to find out about each other and have discussions rather than the blackboard discussion board.
Assignments will be focued on “how does it work in a rpactical situation and How can I use this in my work”
we will also be doing some group work to develop a learning object this will be from week 3 – 9 This actually falls within the month that I am away in Tassie. Denise Morgan will alsob be away for those weeks as she is in New Zealand.

Digital Pedagogies
Michael, this was a litle disjointed and it didn’t help that a coupld of colleagues kept interjecting with trivial comments.
We will be looking at the policy that drives change within our organisations. things like enforcing blended learning with LMS’s etc.
There were other things that Micheal was talking about but I wasnt taking too many notes and unfortunately I have forgotten for the moment. Just as well this unit is in second semester so I can go over it again.

There were a few videos from Taylor Mali that would be good to do some more research on YouTube. He is a teacher with some powerful messages.

On creativity young kids “if they don’t know they will have a go. they are not frightened to make a mistake.