Planet: Pattern Language Network : Activity

the new pattern template is here!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:23:58 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/11/19/the-new-pattern-template-is-

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy with workshops all over the place: CETL ALiC in leeds, formative e-Assessment in London, Teaching and Learning Computer Science in Edinbrugh. Of these, the first two were planned as a Workshop II in the frame of our methodology. The London one pretty much followed the plan, while [...]

Try once, refine once: a handy pattern from Aliy Fowler

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:32:16 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/11/19/try-once-refine-once-a-handy

Aliy Fowler from Kent is one of the participants in our formative e-Assessment group. She brought us a case story called String comparison in language learning. At the 2nd workshop of this group, we discussed this case, and identified a pattern, which she called Try Once, Refine Once. Aliy and her table posted the first [...]

CETL ALiC meets Planet

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:49:19 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/11/07/cetl-alic-meets-planet/

On Tuesday John and I facilitated a second Planet workshop for the CETL ALiC (Active Learning in Computing) fellows - the intention being to help them identify patterns that are shareable from the wealth of material and experience they have been gathering over the past three years. Dissemination is vital to ALiC and the project [...]

Planet’s journey to the north

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:55:38 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/11/04/planets-journey-to-the-north

On Nov. 13th we’ll be holding a workshop at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on Teaching and Learning Computer Science. Contact Judy Robertson if you want to come along (or drop me a line).

Finalising a pattern structure

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:13:55 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/11/03/finalising-a-pattern-structu

We have had many discussions about the structure we need for a pattern and the template on the wiki has been updated to reflect some of these. However I don’t think we have agreed a structure that we can work with from now on. My own view is that the current structure is incomplete and [...]

From stories to patterns, and back, and back again

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:46:50 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/11/03/from-stories-to-patterns-and

Let’s say you know how to write a case story, and we’ve convinced you that stories are not enough. But how do you get from a story to a pattern? Well, hopefully by March we’ll have something of an answer to that. In the meanwhile, here’s a tutorial that just might help:

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e-Framework Workshop - Weds 29th October 2008.

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:06:58 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/10/30/e-framework-workshop-weds-29

Went to the e-framework workshop yesterday and in retrospect I feel it was useful in that it helped me make more sense of what is expected from project teams’ contributions to the e-framework. The workshop introduced ‘Programme X’ which is concerned with something called the ‘JISC Innovation Base’ and the ‘national’ e-framework. We were introduced [...]

Planet 2-day meeting

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:30:07 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/10/29/planet-2-day-meeting/

My head is buzzing following our very productive two day meeting in London which finished yesterday. The first day was a meeting of the Planet team; on the second we were joined by distinguished guests with expertise in various areas of patterns and representations of practice. These included: Lorna Burns from Barnet College; Mark Childs [...]

Christian Kohls mines for patterns in London (Oct. 28th, 5pm)

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:13:50 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/10/23/christian-kohls-mines-for-pa

(cross-posted from designforlearning)
A bit of a short notice, I know. But if you happen to be in town, come to Christian Kohl’s talk at the Knowledge lab:
Getting to sound educational settings, successful teaching methods and beneficial instructional tools and materials is a challenging design task. To not reinvent the wheel and learn by good practices [...]

“language” attribute on patterns?

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:06:19 GMT

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/10/16/language-attribute-on-patter

Our cases have a “group / workshop” attribute. This is because we collect them from various communities, and the participants in these communities want to quickly find their peer’s contributions. We didn’t have a similar attribute for patterns, thinking that the whole point of patterns is to promote generality and knowledge transfer. Now, that is [...]

PlanetSTARTemplate

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:03:59 GMT

Template for Emerge online conference community slot

PlaNet poster

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:09:02 GMT

PlaNet poster for the JISC Emerge event in York, 24 and 25 Jan. 08