Comments for Stewardship Learning http://www.stlearn.com Blogging about learning, leadership, life Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:45:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Comment on Unattributed Poem: Reflections on Philosophy by Mike http://www.stlearn.com/?p=119&cpage=1#comment-254 Mike Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:45:42 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=119#comment-254 Hilarious. Unfortunately Google can't find any of the sentences so maybe no one else has put it online yet... Hilarious. Unfortunately Google can’t find any of the sentences so maybe no one else has put it online yet…

]]> Comment on Slideshare.net: adding audio to shared presentations by Jay http://www.stlearn.com/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-252 Jay Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:15:12 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=40#comment-252 Easiest site to add audio to slides online is myBrainshark.com Easiest site to add audio to slides online is myBrainshark.com

]]> Comment on What Does Open Mean? by Steve Cade http://www.stlearn.com/?p=110&cpage=1#comment-236 Steve Cade Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:04:25 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=110#comment-236 great reminder, Peter! great reminder, Peter!

]]> Comment on Slideshare.net: adding audio to shared presentations by Christine http://www.stlearn.com/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-232 Christine Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:56:49 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=40#comment-232 Too bad the slide-cast has been removed. :( Another great resource is www.slide-casts.com. Works really well with iPhones too, which is excellent to capture a younger audience. Too bad the slide-cast has been removed. :(

Another great resource is http://www.slide-casts.com. Works really well with iPhones too, which is excellent to capture a younger audience.

]]> Comment on About by Peter http://www.stlearn.com/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-170 Peter Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:28:23 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?page_id=2#comment-170 Hi Cindy: Good to hear from you. You can write to me at pwilliams@stlearn.com. Hope you are doing well! --peter Hi Cindy: Good to hear from you. You can write to me at pwilliams@stlearn.com. Hope you are doing well! –peter

]]> Comment on About by Cindy Zhang http://www.stlearn.com/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-169 Cindy Zhang Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:22:33 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?page_id=2#comment-169 Hello Dr， Peter This is Cindy Zhang。 、 Hello
Dr， Peter
This is Cindy Zhang。 、

]]> Comment on Recording Telephone Interviews by Peter http://www.stlearn.com/?p=91&cpage=1#comment-163 Peter Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:00:26 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=91#comment-163 Hi Bendta, The Olympus doesn't specify the type of recorder needed, but as long as it is a digital audio recorder and it has one of the standard jacks for a mic (2.5 or 3.5mm) then it should work. Dr. Bearley uses something called USB Blast, but the only one I could find costs over $150. I figure many of you guys already have a digital recorder available or could easily find one, so the Olympus makes a lot of sense to me. The Pamela recording application records to your computer's hard drive. You can specify the folder you want it to drop the audio file in. That is pretty handy, and it would probably work just fine, but I was a bit annoyed when my skype call dropped in the middle of an interview...... twice. BTW, I just updated the information with a couple of links and prices. --peter Hi Bendta,
The Olympus doesn’t specify the type of recorder needed, but as long as it is a digital audio recorder and it has one of the standard jacks for a mic (2.5 or 3.5mm) then it should work. Dr. Bearley uses something called USB Blast, but the only one I could find costs over $150. I figure many of you guys already have a digital recorder available or could easily find one, so the Olympus makes a lot of sense to me. The Pamela recording application records to your computer’s hard drive. You can specify the folder you want it to drop the audio file in. That is pretty handy, and it would probably work just fine, but I was a bit annoyed when my skype call dropped in the middle of an interview…… twice. BTW, I just updated the information with a couple of links and prices. –peter

]]> Comment on Recording Telephone Interviews by Bendta http://www.stlearn.com/?p=91&cpage=1#comment-162 Bendta Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:31:02 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=91#comment-162 Does the Olympus technology specify the kind of recorder? I have old school tape recorders and I might have access to digital (if my husband will share). Is this the one Dr. Bearley uses? I am assuming the Pamela recording option records to my computer somewhere vs. a seperate device? Although I am not intrigued by the possibility of interruptions. All that being expressed, I will go with the team. Thank you for the research Dr. Williams. Does the Olympus technology specify the kind of recorder? I have old school tape recorders and I might have access to digital (if my husband will share). Is this the one Dr. Bearley uses?
I am assuming the Pamela recording option records to my computer somewhere vs. a seperate device? Although I am not intrigued by the possibility of interruptions.
All that being expressed, I will go with the team. Thank you for the research Dr. Williams.

]]> Comment on About by Marty Martin http://www.stlearn.com/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-130 Marty Martin Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:34:41 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?page_id=2#comment-130 Hello Peter, I have pasted your email address to Paul de Bruin who has a few moodle questions for you - I hope you don't mind... Best regards, Marty Martin Hello Peter,

I have pasted your email address to Paul de Bruin who has a few moodle questions for you – I hope you don’t mind…

Best regards,
Marty Martin

]]> Comment on Online versus Face to Face Instruction by Bob Parker http://www.stlearn.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-54 Bob Parker Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:57:43 +0000 http://www.stlearn.com/?p=61#comment-54 1) I've said for a long time - and still believe - that "context is the source of learning." Learning is problem-driven - i.e., driven by what the learner construes as a problem to be solved - and the problems that drive (motivate?) learners are context-specific. An important part of what we do as teachers is to find ways to help our students expand their sense of the context of the problem: from "local" to "global" would be a shorthand way of putting it. Here's where a purposeful review of existing theory and research comes in for more advanced students. 2) Learning results from the "transaction" between the "internal conditions of the learner" (what the learner brings to the context in which the learning occurs) and the "external conditions of the environment" (typically, though not necessarily most productively, construed as the selection and design of "content"). Regardless of the medium (online or F2F), content cannot be transmitted to students - no matter how clever the instructional design. Students have to construct knowledge from content through their transaction(s) with it - and that, as Piaget observed, involves their acting on it/performing operations on it. What they get is never what we intend because their a priori knowledge (their internal conditions) not only varies from ours but also from each of their peers. 3) Learning - as opposed to training, which is different in kind - is not just a "social activity"; it requires social/linguistic processes for its occurrence. It is based on participation in social processes. What a given individual learns results from his/her internal reconstruction of the social processes that s/he has participated in. That's why the nature and quality of the learning differs between online and F2F contexts. The contexts and the attendant social/linguistic processes of these two instructional modes are inevitably and qualitatively different, so the learning is different. 1) I’ve said for a long time – and still believe – that “context is the source of learning.” Learning is problem-driven – i.e., driven by what the learner construes as a problem to be solved – and the problems that drive (motivate?) learners are context-specific. An important part of what we do as teachers is to find ways to help our students expand their sense of the context of the problem: from “local” to “global” would be a shorthand way of putting it. Here’s where a purposeful review of existing theory and research comes in for more advanced students.
2) Learning results from the “transaction” between the “internal conditions of the learner” (what the learner brings to the context in which the learning occurs) and the “external conditions of the environment” (typically, though not necessarily most productively, construed as the selection and design of “content”). Regardless of the medium (online or F2F), content cannot be transmitted to students – no matter how clever the instructional design. Students have to construct knowledge from content through their transaction(s) with it – and that, as Piaget observed, involves their acting on it/performing operations on it. What they get is never what we intend because their a priori knowledge (their internal conditions) not only varies from ours but also from each of their peers.
3) Learning – as opposed to training, which is different in kind – is not just a “social activity”; it requires social/linguistic processes for its occurrence. It is based on participation in social processes. What a given individual learns results from his/her internal reconstruction of the social processes that s/he has participated in. That’s why the nature and quality of the learning differs between online and F2F contexts. The contexts and the attendant social/linguistic processes of these two instructional modes are inevitably and qualitatively different, so the learning is different.

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