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T<strong>here</strong> <strong>is</strong> <strong>some</strong>thing quite powerful about the v<strong>is</strong>ual images that are collected during a life<strong>time</strong>. Iwas very glad that I borrowed a digital camera from the university for th<strong>is</strong> trip as it doesreinforce the fact that I was t<strong>here</strong>. I carry <strong>some</strong> memories as mental images but the albeit smallnumber of pictures that came back with me on 'floppy d<strong>is</strong>ks' do help keep the memories alive.Again, it <strong>is</strong> interesting <strong>to</strong> reflect on how technology has changed since then. That camera hadabout enough battery life for fifty pictures <strong>and</strong> I was only able <strong>to</strong> charge it once <strong>and</strong> that was atMassey University in the ICT department w<strong>here</strong> they had a collection of chargers. Compare thatwith the tiny batteries that are in modern cameras which can sustain the capture of hundreds ofpho<strong>to</strong>s that are s<strong>to</strong>red on media a fraction of the size of the d<strong>is</strong>ks I carried with me. By the <strong>time</strong>I went <strong>to</strong> ICCE 2005 in Singapore, I was dependent solely on the camera on my XDA II but stillfilled up all the solid state memory with images that I have used in professional contexts eversince.ActionsThe diagram I constructed in Takapuna (see pp 334 <strong>and</strong> 335) <strong>is</strong> evidence of direct action that <strong>It</strong>ook as an outcome of the reflexive process in which I engaged at the <strong>time</strong>. <strong>It</strong> st<strong>and</strong>s as agenuine artefact of a piece of au<strong>to</strong>/pedagogic work. The iterative nature of the h<strong>and</strong>-drawnversion (classically in the style of a 'bag of a fag packet' drawing) followed <strong>by</strong> its tidying in<strong>to</strong> a.ppt slide <strong>is</strong> indicative of the thought processes I was going through at the <strong>time</strong>. As can be seen,I was constantly trying <strong>to</strong> apply learning I was acquiring <strong>by</strong> the minute in<strong>to</strong> professional settingsw<strong>here</strong> I would one day be leading the learning. <strong>It</strong> <strong>is</strong> not an arrogant claim <strong>to</strong> say that much ofth<strong>is</strong> thinking made its way in<strong>to</strong> the policies, procedures <strong>and</strong> practices we set up for iteach <strong>and</strong><strong>some</strong> of which are still in train in the new release of that programme: (seehttp://hiberniacollege.com/schoolofeducation/hibernia-college-uk/)208Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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