Sounds from the Bazaar

17-April-2006

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First of what will hopefully be a series of podcasts called 'sounds from the Bazaar'.

I have spent much of the last three weeks learning something about multi media. OK - I talk enough about it - and I just thought it was time to do it. A steep learning curve - learning howe to use video and sound editing software, learning how to get the stuff published and learning at the same time something about presentation and design.

I've enjoyed it but I am certainly not happy with the results. I have been a bit reluctant to publicize any of this stuff but guess I have to let go at some time.

So - here is my first podcast. Lets call it an Alpha. I can improve the quality. But more importantly the item is too long - nine minutes on one subject is too much for a podcast like this.

It will rapidly evolve. I am working on a new European Commission funded project called Bazaar. The Bazaar project aims to develop and support a community of practice for teachers, trainers, moderators and facilitators in the development, creation, exchange and use of e-learning materials." (now you know why I thought it was about time to learn myself.

I hope to produce a regular (weekly - or is this too ambitious) podcast - 'Sounds of the Bazaar'. Am working ion the format at the moment. If anyone would like to contribute please get in touch.

In the meantime you can listen to the 'Alpha' here.

The first in a series of Bazaar productions

This podcast is about the ideas behind the Personal Learning environment. It reefers to the origins of the PLE, in dissatisfaction with older forms of educational technology and concerns over institutional control. However it goes on to question whether the PLE is really the answer, suggesting the use of freely available Web 2 tools for learning might offer a better way forward.
Podcast notes:
Credits:
Script, voice and production: Graham Attwell
Opening music:
Taqaima
Closing music:
Sunrise by Deutscheun Child

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Graham Attwell; 17-April-2006 11:38:25; forum (3) help

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1 Great stuff ;-)

Hi Graham Well done, I enjoyed your first podcast and I am looking forward to hearing future ones. I agree with you that we need to seriously question if a PLE has to be another application, or if it is just a combination of existing tools - looking forward to following the discussion around this ;-) Regards glen
Glen Davies, 19-April-2006 03:13:20 forum / discussion

2 Do we need a PLE? Can you build a PLE?

Maybe PLE is not a tool, product or service but rather the indivduals own way of finding information that relates and meets the individuals own learning needs.
I think that maybe the PLE in effect does not exist as a product tool or similar but the PLE is really the chosen manner in which an individual has structured his own learning tools. For example my PLE consists of: Webbrowser, del.icio.us, bloglines, courses published in an LMS, Skype, IM, Google home page, Elgg, some personal blogs. That is what I chose to hunt down information, and maybe I do not need ONE tool (the PLE) to be created for me. It's all just an interconnected smart way of hunting down the information that I am interested in. PLE is a verb (action) and not a noun (thing). /fredrik adlemo
Fredrik Adlemo, 21-April-2006 14:30:09 forum / discussion
1 replies. Latest reply: 21-April-2006 14:36:22 by GrahamAttwell; Do learners need help

3 Mind the gaps

The main point of doing PLE-like development work at the moment is to see where the gaps are in existing infrastructure, and to suggest how we deal with them.
Plex has been very useful for us in clarifying the issues around collaboration - the technologies on offer now are either basically non-existent (subscribe to some feeds and all is well) or very heavyweight (learning design). We see an opportunity for an open lightweight approach to coordinating commitments and contexts that isn't tool-dependent(e.g. Groove) and that supports effective self-organisation as well as formally defined work. Another area is the gap between working in the present and identifying future opportunities - a common registration mechanism for entry into a shared context (whether a wiki, multiblog, course area etc) would go a long way towards enabling an easy flow from tools for discovery to tools for collaboration. Even better, have such a mechanism extensible enough for formal as well as informal registration, so joining a module at Uni is just a click away, too. And of course the other thing we're missing is platform-level scripting. Unless you happen to be using a Mac, connecting the pieces in your PLE is mostly cut-and-paste and a fair bit of tinkering around. It doesn't have to be like that, something AppleScript demonstrates quite clearly. Trickier when it comes to web applications, but then thats partly why we're interested in working with web-enabled desktop tools. So, I think enabling a selection of tools for personal learning is definitely the way to go, but we need to make progress in inter-tool communication and scripting, and make sure we have services that can support more than just sharing bookmarks, so we can export more coordination out of the VLE.
Scott Wilson, 27-April-2006 17:33:34 forum / discussion

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