DrJoolz Snapshotz on Life

I have not been blogging.
But I have not been watching BB or the football either.

Have been very busy and left you all to your own devices. Back from study leave after four hedonistic months of Flickr and blogging. Bound to make it hard settling back to work.

Critical Literacies Project has had a nice boost with a one day meeting last week. And today met the wonderful Mark again to discuss his bit of the work. He works here and has got the kids actually understanding what critical literacy is and using it to deconstruct the school as text. Yes. He has. He is well into it and has also agreed to work with me on introducing blogging and Flickr to his classes next year. I can’t wait now to go into school and visit again next Wednesday.

Have also been catching up with another project here where I have been looking with teachers at gender dynamics in classrooms and their impact on teaching and learning. We report to the full staff next Tuesday so that’s always a bit scary. (They don’t want to have their time wasted by nonsense.)

Also am preparing for giving a paper here - gonna be mainly about Flickr.

Play and Creativity online: A look at ways in which informal online connections enable learning and creativity. Drawing on research looking at a range of online activities, this paper will look at similarities and differences in the ways in which online activities are helping individuals to learn from others through their activities and liaisons. It looks at ways in which learning often happens through the exploration of content and through interpersonal connections, in unplanned and spontaneous ways.

THANK GOD I said something vague in the abstract. I have a few ideas I am gonna use:
probably the can project; a six word story; the travelling wig game; and something else.

Will use some play theory stuff including things from Avant game. And also from this new book by by Diane Carr, David Buckingham, Andrew Burn, and Gareth Schott.

So that’s it.

Am back on theblog ….