My Learning Journey
Cristina Costa’s learning journey……..
Trust is a subject I have been thinking a lot about lately. We have been discussing it on the Philosophy Friday (#PF600) David Roberts and Emma Coleman host at the University of Salford. And recently I have also been discussing it with my colleague Pascal Venier. It is an important matter in everyone’s professional and [...]
I wrote the text below when I started this blog. Meanwhile, I changed the structure of the blog and decided to deactivate all the static pages. With it, this text got archived. Today George Couros sent a tweet asking the following: Who is a teacher that made an impact on your life? Immediately Manuela came [...]
I am finally making sense of the notes I took while in the summer school. Once I fully recover from all the traveling, and provided I survive my interim assessment, I might post something about effective writing, which was what made me apply for that summer school in the first place. Today however, I want [...]
Any stories worth sharing? Here is some thoughts about my own experience as a PhD student. This post was inspired by Joyce Seitzinger’s tweet … and my lack of sleep! Basically the PhD is a journey … a journey you will start out with all the willing of the world. I still remember the big smile [...]
We’ve made it! I just can’t believe that the first edition of the PLE Conference already belongs to the past. But it’s true. It happened last week. And YES, I think I can say we have achieved our main goal which was to invite people to contribute to the event in different ways. Before I go on [...]
Two months ago or so I was challenged to submit a case study to the VITAE Integrating Technology in research training Workshop, which I did. It ended up being accepted and on Thursday I presented it. A shared space for research View more presentations from Cristina Costa. As it often happens, after presenting it I keep mulling over [...]
I am still stranded in Europe, waiting to return to the UK. If everything goes as planned I will touch British soil tomorrow. Meanwhile I have been working online. And if it weren’t for the fact that I had to postpone some rather important meetings, my absence in the office would have probably gone unnoticed. And [...]
I am still in Porto, at the Faculty of Engineering , in the University of Porto. Yesterday I did a short presentation about the use of Social Media in Higher Education for the eLearning @FEUP workshop. I mainly focused on some projects I have been developing at the University Salford, but everything went so quickly [...]
Social Media in Higher Education and Beyond New forms of collaborating and developing team work A presentation for the interdisciplinary seminar “Future Social Learning Networks” at the University of Paderborn and the Knowledge Media Research Center in Augsburg. Tag for this event is #fsln10 Below is a voicethread with some ideas about Social Media for collaboration [...]
So today I don’t have many words. Well, to be exact, I have none. I think Heidi says it all in the video below. This is set in the context of school education, but if we are able to see beyond it, we will realise that in any other learning context… in any other life context [...]