Category: my learning journey
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Being Educators: Mozilla and Me
There’s ongoing discussion about Mozilla’s role as a ‘teacher’ and how it fits alongside that of “inventor”. In a recent blog post, Mark Surman wanted to find out whether “Mozilla as teacher” resonates and what other terms might be appropriate. Having spent the past year with Mozilla helping people learn, I wanted to respond, both with […]
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Herding Passionate Cats: The Role of Facilitator in a Peer Learning Process
Over at Mozzadrella, Vanessa, a fellow P2PU community member has been writing about the challenges of supporting learner responsibility and trying to be a facilitator, but not a teacher. I started to write a comment, but it emerged into a rare, spontaneous blogpost. Expecting learners to take responsibility for their own learning is a built-in value […]
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Metanoia: Mindshift – a ‘freestyle’ learning workshop
As part of the Free Culture Incubator (FCI) series, I’ll be running a workshop in Berlin at the end of August on self-organised and free learning culture framed around the question: How we can navigate, define, share and remix our own learning in ever-changing contexts? More information and registration form at the Transmediale website. Ela […]
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Blogging and Writing For The Web: Meeting Notes (May 13th)
I just helped facilitate the first synchronous meeting for the Blogging and Writing For The Web (B&W4TW) study group, and I think it went really well, great in fact. I previously organised a basic web development course at P2PU, but until recently had no opportunity to organise a non-Webcraft project. This is a great opportunity […]
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Shaping the Crowd – Subnet Talk
The lovely people at Subnet posted the video of the talk I gave in Salzburg at the end of March on “shaping the crowd” and open-learning and identity. subnetTALK: Pippa Buchanan – shaping the crowd from subnetTALK on Vimeo. I mention P2PU and School of Webcraft a little bit within the context of new places […]
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Deschooling Society Book Group – Chapter One reflections
Over at P2PU (the non-Webcraft bit) I’m participating in a book group on Ivan Illych’s Deschooling Society. I’ve been meaning to read this and other Illych texts for years, ever since I met Dougald, and first heard him speak at Future Sonic 2008. Anyway, I’ve posted my reflections to the first chapter within the group […]
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Brand Eins Article
This is slightly belated, but following the Drumbeat Festival: Learning, Freedom and the Web, both the School of Webcraft and myself were mentioned in an article from German magazine Brand Eins. You can read a web version of the article (minus all the photos) here.
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School of Webcraft talk at Hackerspace Adelaide – Feb 9th
My partner and I have been located in Australia and New Zealand for the last month or so, both trying to keep up with work while we catch up with Antipodean family and friends. In between fighting the never-ending battles against our email inboxes and waking up at odd hours to join in community calls, […]