I thought 500 page views was a landmark, then 1000. There has been steady growth to 10,000. It went crazy for a week in April with 1,000 views a day then settled back to 150-250 day.
Who is counting?
Basic analytics are a form of recognition, even reward for the blogger. 50,000 is a biggy that has taken 14 months to achieve. 100,000 is unlikely within the Masters in Open & Distance Education, though a MRes, another module in the MAODE (because it interests me so much) or a MBA are all of interest for later in the year and all would be blogged upon right here.
Are you saying something worthwhile to this audience?
Even if I feel the PC Screen is a mirror and I’m writing this for my benefit first as a reference I can return to later: what did I think? Where is that quote? Where was I in the learning process? Aren’t I glad I’ve moved on! Editing old entries, bringing them up-to-date develops this. As Nabokov wrote,
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
Read ‘Backwards e-Reading’ of ‘A New Culture of Learning’ in a large font, highlighting interesting gems I may have missed.
Also, searching for the word ‘play’ works and is appropriate, with over 160 mentions.
I liken this to panning for gold.
Once I’ve done this a few times, typing out notes may become irrelevant; I’ll know it. ‘Play as the new form of learning?’
One final thought. Two decades ago, I likened learning to a nurturing process in which an educator, teacher, or course designer sprinkles water on students’ heads, like the heads of lettuce emerging from the ground.
This no longer works for me.
What I now see are children in a large paddling pool having fun and creating games with toys offered by supporting parents and older siblings.
The mantra for e-learning is ‘activity, activity, activity’; perhaps it should be ‘play, play, play’. That’s what you’ll take away if you read John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas’s ‘A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change.’
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