December 10, 2023

Flexible, Open and Social Learning … Lost and Found Reflections !

The good thing about about a four hour train journey is that you get the chance to find hidden blog posts that you had forgotten all about … Blimey …. ‘Here’s a rather long one I made earlier ‘ way back in July …. In relation to my adventures with the #FOS4L bods …. Day 1 REFLECTIONS on Digital Literacy and Identity I really enjoyed today although I must confess I found it really hectic but so enjoyable all the same. There is such a friendly atmosphere in the #fos4l community. So many familiar faces and loads of new ones. I was really pleased to see my fellow #BYOD4L collaborator Isobel Gowers. We had loads of fun on #BYOD4L particularly when we did a google hangout with the fabulous Sam Illingworth. Sam does the voice overs on the FOS animations in partnership with the awesome design skills of the lovely …

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Flexible, Open and Social Learning Course : Debs Reflections Part One

Blog Posts … I’m in awe of people that manage to write a blog post on a daily basis. I’ve found it impossible this week. I did however manage to engage on twitter using the #FOS4L hashtag quite a lot and the odd posting on Google+ Community so that’s something ay ? I’m glad that I had some advice from the very wise @suebecks  to try and record my reflections of the Flexible, Online and Social learning course on a daily basis  though as I did manage to get some thoughts scribbled down. Even though I didn’t in the end actually get around to actually writing a blog post per day … Reflecting on this I wonder if a little bit of me is still a bit hesitant with putting myself out there when it comes to actually deep and meaningful thought ?  Or maybe it really is just the lack …

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Flexible, Open and Social Learning – Reflections on Digital Literacy and Identity

New Friends … Old Friends  What do points make ? Badges … Twitter Shower We were asked to do some pre-reading on Digital Capabilities by Helen Beetham http://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/revisiting-digital-capability-for-2015/ and this proved quite stimulating with what seemed like hundreds of questions being posed and lots of answers flying about … it was great fun, if somewhat hectic.   The storify of the shower can be found here 

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#FOS4L : Day 1 Digital literacy and identity – Making Activity – Places that I visit online

Making: Which places do you visit regularly when online? Where do you stay a bit longer and why? Create a map of your digital me. (ilo-3) I’m not sure it will come out ok but here is my map of my personal learning environment (PLE) where I engage ( at the moment ) of places where I go online….. as for the places where I stay the longest – I think for me this is a combination of wordpress, twitter and also more recently Google+, I think the main thing in common is probably the sense of connectedness and social presence that I get from these places which helps me to feel part of something .. if that makes sense

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So just what is this FOS thing all about then ?

Well FOS stands for flexible, open and social learning and I’m part of the co-facilitator team for a new  5-day open learning event developed by Chrissi Nerantzi and Sue Beckingham. We start tomorrow Monday 13th July to Friday 17th of July 2015.   It is an an openly licensed learning event for educators working in higher education who are interested to learn more about flexible, open and social learning. The topics we will be exploring using a playful enquiry-based approach are: Digital literacy and identity Flexible pedagogies Supporting learning Communities and collaboration Open education The 5 C Framework The FOS event uses the 5C  framework  (connecting, communicating, curating, collaborating and creating) using freely available digital technologies.  Oooh and I nearly forgot … it also has the opportunity to claim open digital badges … and of course I do love a badge #deblovesbadges 🙂  so I am really looking forward to that.  From Participant to Co-Facilitator and back …

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