Learning and Teaching Conference

I’ve been trying to work out how my session on informal learning in the blended mix at this year’s T&L Conference could actually be conducted informally.

Tony Hirst seems to be exploring a similar idea in encouraging participants to his own session on ‘Visioning Web2.0 in OU Personal Learning Environments’ to act ‘informally’ – he doesn’t actually say that but I think that’s what he’s getting at:

at the start of the workshop, I primed the audience along the lines of: “I’m going to ramble on a theme, pop up some links on screen, mention lots of others. Feel free to chase down those links that interest you and only listen to the bits of the talk that catch your attention, ask questions whenever you like and pick me up when your googling proves something I’ve said is wrong

He also gives a couple of suggestions about how to ‘feed’ links to participants so that they can follow them up, tag them, blog them etc.

Delishow – feeding delicious links into a screen show -

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/deliShow/55071244/informal&num=2&td=5

Links via a H20 Playlist

http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do

Good stuff and I need to follow it up.