INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 4 – Evaluating affordances of blogs

The term affordance was introduced by James J. Gibson (1977). An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action. These “action possiblities” are objectively measurable and independent of the individual, but always in relation to the actor and therefore a product of an interaction between […]

Professional learning in the real world

Just something I found interesting while browsing the net for edu tech stuff http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=3728

Learning 3.0?

from: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.fi/ Learning 3.0 and the Smart eXtended Web from Steve Wheeler

INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 3 – My Personal Learning Environment

My Personal Learning Environment The term personal learning environment (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms that learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. PLEs represent a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a […]

INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 1

We made a presentation about the state of educational technology in Mexico (embedded below). Here is my blog post on the same issue. Educational technology in Mexico I won’t go into details and statistics here, they can be found in the presentation and the resources used in it. Here I have just briefly written about […]

Synapsifier in the Sky

Joni Liikala's educational technology blog

Month: October 2012