I It's a while since I posted on this blog although I have been busy and learnt a lot in the last 10 weeks.
Firstly, I've been enjoying participating in Chrissi Nerantzi's #creative mini-mooc (she doesn't like me using mooc to describe it but as far as I can tell it is one). I have kept a blog and it records some of what I have learnt but perhaps the most important thing the experience has taught me is how to create an online open learning course like this using web 2.0 technologies like P2PU and Google+. I am now not only familiar with these technologies but also confident enough to try something similar. So I can very definitely do something that I could not do a few weeks ago and I have just launched my first google+ site to support collaborative production of the next issue of Lifewide Magazine. Our Creative Life I documented how this came about in a Linkedin post and connected it to the idea that we need to recognise and talk about our own creativity if we want a more creative society. It seemed to come about as I connected my need and desire to produce Lifewide magazine with my new knowledge of googel+ as a platform for social enterprise and the idea of crowdsourcing the stories for the magazine.
Firstly, I've been enjoying participating in Chrissi Nerantzi's #creative mini-mooc (she doesn't like me using mooc to describe it but as far as I can tell it is one). I have kept a blog and it records some of what I have learnt but perhaps the most important thing the experience has taught me is how to create an online open learning course like this using web 2.0 technologies like P2PU and Google+. I am now not only familiar with these technologies but also confident enough to try something similar. So I can very definitely do something that I could not do a few weeks ago and I have just launched my first google+ site to support collaborative production of the next issue of Lifewide Magazine. Our Creative Life I documented how this came about in a Linkedin post and connected it to the idea that we need to recognise and talk about our own creativity if we want a more creative society. It seemed to come about as I connected my need and desire to produce Lifewide magazine with my new knowledge of googel+ as a platform for social enterprise and the idea of crowdsourcing the stories for the magazine.
This week I'm in Barcelona visiting the e-learning Centre's eduLab at the Open University of Catalonia. Its the only fully-online university. It's a warm and friendly place and myself and the three other guests have had an interesting and enjoyable time. Today I visited the Sagrada Famila Basilica designed by Gaudi. Its one of the must wonderous places I think I have ever visited and a great testament to the creative genius and creative efforts of many many people. The space, lit by countless coloured glass windows, blew my mind. It must be one of the most special spaces on earth. And it got me thinking, how can my simple creative acts be compared to the countless creative acts that over the last 130 years have been poured into this building. They can't of course - creativity just does not work that way. It ihas to be relevant and appropriate for the context in which it emerges.
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