How to learn English: Reflective journal
Can keeping a reflective journal help you learn? Yes, but you need focus: good guidelines with a catalogue of questions. Is feedback neccessary? Not really, but it can be motivating – especially feedback from your peers. At a recent conference on Personal Learning Environments, Marc Graber of the University of Zürich studied the progress that […]
Question: What’s your New Frontier?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frontier.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday is the 40th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the moon and I’m up there too today, somehow. Kennedy called space the New Frontier, and that was certainly what it felt like 40 years ago. I’m leaving out the Cold War context here to focus on social […]
Question: If you were a member of a tribe, what would your name be?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tribe.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMy podcast today is short and sweet because I have a fat cheek after a dentist doctored me up on Friday. So I lisp (read: “lithp”). Anyway, if I were a member of a tribe, I’d be a squaw from the tribe of the Great Gap-toothed Indians and my […]
Question: Which skill would you like to develop?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/skill.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThere comes a time when you realize that you’ve been working hard in one direction or area and have become quite good at what you do. Generally it happens in the middle of what my husband Helmut calls “die Schuftphase” (when you’re slaving away at full throttle). So you’re […]
Question: Where and what is “home”?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/home.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“There’s no place like home.” That was Dorothy’s homesick mantra in the Wizard of Oz, and saying it got her back to Kansas. For her, “home” was where she was from, and where she wanted to be. But I find it quite difficult to say just where home is. […]
Blog carneval: No blog is an island
Well, you know, I never really meant to become a blogger. It was all a bit of an accident. You see, I used to keep up individual course (b)logs to post homework and materials. Then one day I decided to get help (wouldn’t be anywhere without help) to build Beautiful Islands, my Moodle site, with […]
Pigs and chickens revisted
My blog group is not getting off the ground. That’s got me back to thinking about projects. As we learned when reading about Scrum last summer, there are various degrees of involvement in any project. There’s that nice story: A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig […]
