{"id":152,"date":"2009-06-05T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T09:03:37","slug":"two-seminars-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/two-seminars-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Two seminars this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have Dr Richard Hall, from de Montfort University, come and present a seminar on autonomy and the read\/write web at my work. Richard managed to hit the balance just right, I felt, between catering for those who are interested in the theoretical and socio-political angles and those with an interest in application and practice.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/nicwhitton\/richard-hall-mmu-presentation\" target=\"_blank\">view the slides here<\/a> (without video clips).<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday I spent the day at my Faculty&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioe.mmu.ac.uk\/news\/001\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Learning and Teaching Conference<\/a>, and was pleasantly surprised with the focus on play spaces, creativity and &#8216;messy&#8217; learning. I presented an introductory session on using games to support learning, which seemed to go well (in that I no one left half way or was physically sick). My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/nicwhitton\/using-games-to-enhance-learning-and-teaching\" target=\"_blank\">presentation<\/a> is available here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have Dr Richard Hall, from de Montfort University, come and present a seminar on autonomy and the read\/write web at my work. Richard managed to hit the balance just right, I felt, between&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/two-seminars-this-week\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[111,112,110],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-resources","tag-autonomy","tag-games-theory","tag-richard-hall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-2s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}