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4.1.5 Reflection on IM5"As well as being the greatest invention since, oh, that round thing that cars tend to havefour of, or those thin slivers of bread that come in packets, the iPod is also obviously athing of beauty. And I think I am beginning to fall in love. Seriously..." (Jones, 2005 p. 4)There would be no IM5 without the iPod. Reflections on IM3 set out in 4.1.3, show thebeginnings of a series of thoughts that led to the dissemination of the concept of i n PD around2006 58 . A benchmark for the start of these reflections is provided by the abstract of the paperpublished by ICCE (2006);"This paper seeks to enunciate a theoretical framework for i-enabled ContinuingProfessional Development (CPD). It deliberately avoids the metaphorical application ofthe prefix 'e', to symbolise a more holistic approach to professional development than iscurrently afforded by assumptions in e-learning. Drawing on the Apple Macintosh TMmetaphor of 'i' approaches to life (iTunes, iMovie, iPod etc), it plays with the morepersonal contiguities of 'I'-ness. It extrapolates from the post-modern concept of the 'self',which can be seen to be central to all personal development activities and then exploreswhat it might mean where some of the factors 59 identified here, interactive, intelligent,international and integrated are taken to be critical in effective professional development."(Hughes, 2006)The citing of my own work could, on reflection, be regarded as a vanity. I think not. Theinclusion of such material is in keeping with the auto/biographic method of the study. Here Ihave an authentic statement of the evolution of my thinking at the very moment which thisillustration is trying to excavate for meaning. This is as close to being an artefact e@t 0 as thehand written journal that is appendix 1. It comes direct from the professional context in which Iwas working and is, at worst, e@t 1 . That is, it represents the output of structured thoughtprocesses as a genuine attempt to say something new.58 It is again, a fact of history that I was not able to attend ICCE, 2006 which was in Beijing, China but a paper Isubmitted was peer-reviewed, accepted and was published in the proceedings and is still available online (seeHughes, 2006).59 The use of the word 'factors' explains my adoption of it as the term for defining the characteristics of learning inthe zone of optimal auto/pedagogy216Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)