KayO – Page 3 – All the blog posts from the #onl181 community

Navigating the network for quality, credibility and authenticity: A challenge for connected professionals

Posted on July 11, 2019 by KayO

On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog… via GIPHY It’s funny because it is true. When engaging with professional learning through your PLN, it is essential to have the capacity to quickly and effectively evaluate information and r…

Effective time management: A challenge for connected professionals

Posted on July 9, 2019 by KayO

Anyone who has spent anytime engaging with social networks and the internet in general will know of its addictive qualities. Whether it is endlessly scrolling through photos on Instagram, reading Tweets as they pop up during your favourite reality tele…

Managing infowhelm: A challenge for Connected Professionals

Posted on July 8, 2019 by KayO

Initiating and maintaining a Personal Learning Network (PLN) can be an incredibly exciting, rewarding and very effective way to engage with professional learning. However, learning mediated by social networks is not without its challenges. This post is…

Challenges for Connected Professionals: The shadow-side of the PLN

Posted on July 8, 2019 by KayO

When you speak with teachers who maintain a Personal Learning Network (PLN) for professional learning, most of them wonder how they ever lived without it. Being able to tap into the global ‘hive mind’ to seek inspiration, new pedagogical ap…

Don’t believe what you see – digging deeper for the truth

Posted on June 26, 2019 by KayO

Feature image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay We live in a world that is mediated by technology. Every morning we wake up and check our phone for the latest news and updates from friends. We make a cup of coffee and sit down in front of a screen t…

Linking, Stretching and Amplifying at the National Education Summit in Brisbane

Posted on May 30, 2019 by KayO

In this post, you will find an overview of my presentation which I gave at the National Education Summit in Brisbane, where I presented in the Capacity Building, School Libraries Strand. To give you a summary of my presentation, here is the abstract de…

Connected Learning in the Classroom

Posted on May 22, 2019 by KayO

Connected Learning is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of frien…

What next? Looking for a new grand adventure!

Posted on May 16, 2019 by KayO

Although I’ve blogged for many years, I created this space at the beginning of my PhD journey, over 3 years ago. As I re-read my first post to this blog, I am amazed at how quickly the time has passed, and I honestly can’t quite believe tha…

Another exciting online learning experience – the Twitter Conference

Posted on April 22, 2019 by KayO

Experimenting with different online learning opportunities which take advantage of the affordances of openly networked online social technologies underpins my approach to learning and teaching. Just as I encourage participants in the subjects that I te…

Out with the old: Using a Twitterchat as a formal learning strategy

Posted on April 16, 2019 by KayO

This semester I am teaching LCN600 Connected Learning, as part of the Master of Education course at Queensland University of Technology. This course explores online connected and networked learning. Students are first challenged to map and analyse a co…

Copyright, Creativity and Change

Posted on March 27, 2019 by KayO

Markus Spiske Setting the scene A number of recent events have led to this post. The first was the publication of a terrific blog post by Elizabeth Hutchinson who wrote about Why copyright ‘For educational purposes’ is becoming a real probl…

Clickbait, consternation and that elusive silver bullet: Falling down the rabbit hole

Posted on March 15, 2019 by KayO

Feature image: Image by Computerizer from Pixabay Growing up, my parents demanded that my sister and I were quiet from 6pm until around 6.15pm every evening. This 15 minutes was when ‘the news’ – specifically ‘the headlines&#821…

Update: Creating and managing a lifestream as an Early Career Academic

Posted on February 26, 2019 by KayO

I began this year with the plan to create a lifestream blog – something that curated observations, discoveries, articles, images, music – in fact any digital artefact – that I encountered or spent time thinking about as I started my r…

From Twitter

Posted on January 23, 2019 by KayO

My first tweet into the brave unknown of lifestreaming – want to know more? Read my blog post https://t.co/Vfj3wdW9aK … #ecalifestream #experimental #learningbydoingfrom http://twitter.com/KayOddone via IFTTT

Welcome to 2019!

Posted on January 20, 2019 by KayO

I initiated this blog at the beginning of 2016, as I began my doctoral research journey. It feels like I have only blinked, and now I am writing the first post of 2019, having spent my allotted three years researching, reading and writing. I now find m…