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at a croquis workshop facilitated by Geneva Rosett-Hafter at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki on February 17, 2013. - Pictures 1-55 are drawn by me during the workshop. Photos 56-67 I cropped from #3 and post-processed today. After deep, connective unlearning throughout the spring re-learning has begun to become visible...
The whole set: www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/sets/72157634063972906/
...@ a pottery workshop today - with eyes closed
"The ability to recognize and adjust to pattern shifts is a key learning task."
"Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual."
"Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality."
"Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity."
- Siemens, 2004 www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm -
Prezi that goes with the presentations: prezi.com/axvbbw1in-n6/bringing-the-learning-to-you-virtu...
I recalled Howard Gardner's lecture at Aalto University in Helsinki three years ago. I checked my notes - the lecture was called Unleashing Change - taking a few steps towards a better world. He said the following: "A lecture changes a person only in a case when s/he's already 99,9% ready for it - the lecture being only the "last bang"".
After all these networked years something crucial is currently revealing to me... To be able to complete the above mentioned 0,1% - we must reorganize the remaining 99,9%. Personal learning ecosystem gives crucial help in scheduling the flow in order to approach the 100% in manageable pieces. - Timing encounters is not everything - but at times it can be the 0,1% itself...
“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
- Giovanni Boccaccio -
Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 Germany was forbidden to manufacture heavy artillery. This ban forced the German Army to consider the use of rockets for long range bombardment.
This interest in rocket propulsion went back to 1929 when it was under the control of Army Captain Walter Dornberger who was joined three years later by the 19 year old Wernher Von Braun. They were developing the A series missiles, later to lead to the development of the A4 (V2) missile in parallel with the development of the V1.
However, the difficulties experienced during the development programme meant that a suitable rocket motor was not produced until 1940, and the first successful launch did not take place until 3 October 1942.
The first V2 fell on British soil at Chiswick at 6.43pm on 8 September 1944. Although some 10,000 A4s were produced, only about 3,000 were launched offensively.
The V2 was conceived as an extension to artillery, and was thus planned as a mobile weapon for field use. Primarily moved by rail – it was just able to pass through a railway tunnel – it was mounted on a Meillerwagen, a wheeled Transporter/Launcher, with a hydraulic ram to elevate it to 90 degrees.
The system was operational, after arrival at an unsurveyed site, within 4 hours. Soon after launch the V2 turned and reduced its climb angle to 40 degrees to the vertical. The motor was cut by the guidance system when the correct velocity was achieved for the ballistic trajectory to take it to the target.
Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
Design of this long-range, strategic transport aircraft began in February 1959, with the first flight in January 1964. Only ten of the originally ordered thirty Belfasts were built, all for the RAF.
The Belfast, built by Short Brothers, is a giant of an aircraft at over 48m (158ft) span and 41m (136ft) long, weighing 56 tons empty and more than twice that when fully loaded; consequently each aircraft was named after a giant and XR371 was called 'Enceladus'.
The Belfast could carry 150 fully-equipped troops or a Chieftain tank or two Wessex helicopters. It has enough room in its hold to carry two single deck buses.
It worked all over the world on special flights for the armed forces until phased out of service in 1976. Belfast XR371 was flown to Cosford in the Autumn of 1978.
Belfasts are still operated commercially by Heavy Lift Cargo Airlines Ltd. The Company specialises in the transportation of bulky freight and together with its manufacturers, Short Brothers of Belfast, is a long established supporter of the Museum.
"Ch. 8 outlines some interesting and imaginative scenarios for future e-moderating, such as:
Planet Contentia (where content is king),
Planet Nomadic (mlearning reigns),
Planet Caffelattia (collaborative and co-operative)..." online.waikato.ac.nz/blog/2012/01/book-review-gilly-salmo...
Stirring Spoon www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=710