This is just me mashing it all up, but at times I've moaned about wanting to read a relevant book from cover to cover, taking and sharing notes, following references, having a chin-wag and learning by default, on the fly 'vicariously'.
This I've discovered is possible by doing the following:
Buy an eBook, I'm currently doing this to Prof Martin Weller's 'The Digital Scholar' (One of ours, from the Knowledge Media Institute)
You'll come across his name as often as those of:
- Grainne Conole
- Denise Kirkpartrick
- Chris Pegler
- Diane Laurillard et al
- Vygotsky
- Engestrom
on any of the Masters in Open & Distance Education modules. H807, H808, H809, H800 and H810.
As you read through Kindle (which can be on your desktop, laptop, Kindle, iPad, iPhone etc when you 'highlight' something interesting click SHARE and send it to Twitter (my prefered, though it can also go to Facebook).
In this way you indicate what interests you (and where you are up to). Step away from reading mode to chat a bit, then press on or go back.
I like it.
Already done this with:
- Steve Jobs: the exclusive biography. Walter Isaacson
- The Blind Giant.Being Human in a Digital World. Nick Harkaway
Currently doing this with:
- The Digital Scholar: How technology is transforming Scholarly Practice. Martin Weller.
- All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque
- Rethinking Pedagogy in a Digital Age. Rhona Sharpe
I'm thinking of doing the same with:
- Educational Psychology. Vygotsky
- Mindstorms. Piaget.
- Flow. The classic book on how to achieve happiness. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
P.S. I'm between modules!