Prof Gilly Salmon:

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On the shoulders of giants...

• Prof Gilly Salmon
• Professor of E-learning
• learning Technologies

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William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time, And say
which grain will grow and which will not, Speak
then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your
favours nor your hate. Macbeth, Act I, Scene
III, 59-62. (Banquo to the witches)
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Parology

• You say something and it inspires me to
• say something in return. . .and when it
• works successfully it can awaken our
• minds to an unending expansion of new
• ideas. That's parology

Lois Shawver on 25 September 1996, parology the
term that Lyotard used in arguing against
Habermas' search for metanarrative http//www.csud
h.edu/dearhabermas/Storypg.htm
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• Isaac Newton to fellow scientist Robert Hooke on
  5th. February 1676, where he (very modestly)
  claimed that his success had been built on the
  achievement of others
• "If I have seen further it is by standing on the
  shoulders of giants".
• It is possible that Benjamin Franklin said it
  also, but later!

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Boudicca Queen of Ancient Briton
AD62
Led an uprising against occupying forces . She
took the field, like the meanest among them, to
assert the cause of public liberty Some say
the Queens restless spirit is still around..
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Geoffrey Chaucer
first major author in the English language he
wrote many works he is best remembered for his
unfinished epic poem The Canterbury Tales
(written 1380s-1390s) .
He would have approved of html Understood about
diversity And the use of a vehicle to get
people together weaving and summarising
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor,
geometer, musician painter infinitely
curious. He conceived of ideas vastly ahead
of his time, inventing the helicopter, tank,
solar power and the calculator
Does Blackboard support mindmaps?
1452-1519 Italian
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Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince strategy, politics business
Ultimate guide to gaining maintaining
power a legendary handbook on how to become and
remain a ruler
one must be a fox in order to recognize traps,
and a lion to frighten off wolves
1469-1527 Italian
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John Harrison
Self-taught Yorkshire clockmaker obsessed with
the perfect timekeeper Stood alone in pursuit of
his solution finding longitude at sea He
attempted to construct what others thought
hopeless
The Tim Berners-Lee of his day?.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
A passionate declaration of female
independence Shattered the stereotype of
docile decorative womanhood, Anticipated
education for women a new era of equality
1759-1797 Londoner
It is time to effect a revolution in female
manners time to restore them to their lost
dignity- And make them as a part of human spirits
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Charles Darwin
From so simple a beginning endless forms most
beautiful and wonderful have been, and are
evolving
1809-82
I do hope that will be true of the Blackboard VLE
HMS Beagle
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Deeds not words Her approach to the campaign
did not endear her to everyone, and there were
splits within the movement as a result.
women's suffrage 1858-1928
Access to the VLE for all
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contributed more than any other scientist to
the modern vision of physical reality. His
special and general theories of relativity are
still regarded as the most satisfactory model
of the large-scale universe that we have
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John Dewey
True learning is based on discovery guided by
mentoring rather than the transmission of
knowledge
US philosopher, Educational reformer 1859-1952
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from
the full participation of all our powers in the
endeavour to wrest from each changing situation
of experience its own full and unique meaning
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Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington
True social entrepreneur coupled radical
thought with practical action imagining The
Consumer Association, The Open University much
more .
1915-2002
There was magic to be plucked, if one knew how
to wave the wand
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Amy Johnson
Solo flight Womens achievement
Jason
Pioneer Airwoman 1903-41 UK
Identify and jump over those hurdles Be first.
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Pablo Picasso
Does Blackboard have artists in e-residence?
Spanish 1881-1973
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Leo Fender
launched solid bodied electric guitars in 1948
that built Rock Roll The Broadcaster
(later Telecaster) Stilla favourite with guitar
slingers worldwide

• a sound that is heard
• on every digital device
• every type of music
• around the world.
• a tool made of
• wood, wire, plastic and
• more wire
• in the
• shape of an art
• deco canoe paddle.

laughter, scepticism? Never mind! just look at
the orders!
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Wilbur Schramm
Wilbur Schramm, long-time Director of the
Institutefor Communications Research at
Stanford University, author of 'Big
Media,Little Media' and much else besides .
His encyclopaedic knowledge of the research on
educational uses of media,big and little, would
have enabled him to design the evaluative
research essential if we are to exploit
e-learning and VLEs to the full.
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Martin Luther King
showed us the meaning of leadership galvanising
creating coalitions of course sharing big
dreams
engage with others in different locations and
acrosssocial, cultural ethnic divides...
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Mahatma Ghandi
context sensitive education for everyone low
cost Teachers need to learn and grow Craft,
Art, Health and education integrated into one
scheme the individual from the time of
conception to the moment of death
Education must be of a new type for the sake of
the creation of the new world
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Martin Dougiamas

• created the Moodle VLE
• from scratch
• from an educational
• rather than IT
• perspective
• enables the rest
• of the education community
• contribute to its development,

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The Giants suggest
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The Giants suggest
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The Giants suggest
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Thanks to the contributors (the parologists!)

• Roger Emery
• Rod Angood
• David Hawkridge
• Alan Cann
• Jim Morrison

Herman van der Merwe Rick Bennett Alice
Bird Richard Mobbs Simon Atkinson
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You may say Im a dreamer But Im not the only
one John Lennon
Gilly.salmon_at_le.ac.uk www.e-moderating.com www.at
imod.com www.e-tivities.com www.le.ac.uk/beyonddis
tance
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Many thanks for listening have a wonderful
conference