Constant Learning Org

As we think about conferences we plan to attend, it's not uncommon to think about what you will propose based on the themes listed in the call.

I'm looking at my favorite E-Learning conference right now and thinking about two topics, constructing personal learning environments and tools for curation.  Tools for the pedagogy is the emphasis at the ELCC conference.

I think a session on Personal Learning Environments would be a lot of fun and have significance because metacognition continues to be so important.I am thinking I could define PLE's formal and informal elements, mention how a particular learning goal defines the PLE, give examples and let participants create his or her own PLE diagram in the session. I recently created this as an assignment for a course and created a rubric as well, so I've done some of the background work already.

As for curation, I'm interested in the tools but also the best practices for curation. This stems from my long engagement with teaching academic citation skills and citation for presentations. So my own question is how do we teach students about attribution with the new curation tools.

Sharing with peers is the opportunity to learn more about the topic you're picking. As I think about my ideas about curation, I did a search on the terms "best apps for curation in higher ed" and found this very nice presentation--so, for starters, I'm sharing that here, and want to say thanks to Dr. Amy Antonio, Neil Martin, and Adrian Stagg who presented this at an Australian conference:

As I opened the weekly update from Brainpickings this morning, I saw this delightful video on curation
which has been on my mind ever since I read about the concept in  Gregory Ulmer's book ten years ago.



What is Curation? from Percolate on Vimeo.

Brainpickings notes this is the first of a series of videos on curation from this group. I think a key takeaway from this video is that we may select things for ourselves, but thinking about audience is key to understanding how it may be of interest to others (like ourselves, or our customers as the case may be).

I would say that my audience is others who are studying the e-age for the sake of learning that will allow us to work and live smarter --looking forward to more of these videos.