So I asked on my Facebook what I could write about for today’s blog with the theme of education in the new era. Ironically, the only response was the lack ICT in South African public schools. Abbreviated for Information, and Communication Technology, i…
It all started in a dream
“Every day I live to dream, but in every dream, I dream of living.”Shortened to: Live to dream. Dream to live. As it is inscribed on the unders of my arms.I came up with this quote many a year ago, inspired by James Dean’s “Live as though you’ll die to…
The end of a new beginning: Where to start…
Well, I said it never really ends, so this is me starting at the beginning again. But this time a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit freer, a little bit clearer… Or whatever thought-provoking cliche you think would fit in th…
Reflections on Topic 5: What begins must end…
…Or must it? What if it was just a realization that it was always there,Nesting in the soil, waiting for the right foundations for its fruit to bareLike a tree breaking free of the ground only to dig deeper and deeperIts root spread around as it seep…
Reflections on Topic 4: Blending learning
This topic was an interesting one, unfortunately, I was plagued by lousy internet and piles of work, and missed a meeting due to this. But we produced an excellent topic outline and created something really special in the end. What I really noticed was…
Reflections on Topic 3: Personalised learning
In this reflection, I will be using my breakdown of the 7 “Implications for Practice” as discussed in “Creating Effective Collaborative Learning Groups in an Online Environment” by Jane E. Brindley, Christine Walti, and Lisa M. Blaschke (2009…
Reflection on Topic 2: Openness and sharing
To be honest, when I first read the topic headline I started preparing a coffee and got ready to share my life story, but I soon learned that wasn’t it…Or was it? Little did i know that openness and sharing was already a big part of my life. From my …
Reflection on Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies
1. Who are you as an individual in the digital age, and what characterizes your journey so far?Online I have been/can be many people. I have run multiple social media pages for companies across platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Th…
The Withins and Withouts (Week 2 Connecting)
This week we first got to know our PBL groups and it was very informative and fun, it was really nice getting to see everyone’s different bits of their worlds, I enjoyed putting together the video and seeing and hearing everyone’s interesting facts and…
I should write something (Week 1 Getting Started)
It has been a busy month since I wrote my first blogs. It feels like only a week or two ago that I typed out those pages. And how much as changed since then. It appears the world is moving rate of several wow’s an hour. It feels like it hasn’t stopped….
What lies ahead
I decided to take the scenic route to the shoot today, it was pretty. Like that kind of pretty where you almost drive off the road staring it’s so pretty. Maybe it was just different, somewhere I hadn’t been before. My brain was excited, it searched fo…
someone once said….
Someone once said “WRITE!” when I asked what I should do on a post one day… That was years ago, yet it stuck with me. Inside something shouted, it wanted to come out, it wanted touch the light and breathe fresh air. It sat there at the b…