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Government 2.0 and Web 2.0 in schools

23, Jun 2009

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An interesting report Web 2.0 in Schools.
Given that yesterday Canberra was engaged with, and streamed live, its Government 2.0 Forum and announced the establishment of the Government 2.0 Taskforce (http://gov2.net.au/)– this educational focus may also get some legs and coverage.
The twitterstream (#publicsphere) and live feed from Parliament (http://www.katelundy.com.au/live/) on Monday really highlighted that [...]

Are Textbooks as we know them the bane of education?

14, Jun 2009

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edublogs: Seth on why the textbook industry deserves to die
Seth on why the textbook industry deserves to die
Living The Dream?
Seth Godin doesn’t just ‘do’ marketing but he teaches it regularly, too. His latest rant is on the insidious growth of the business of textbook writing and publishing, as a result, he believes, of [...]

A slant on academic publishing in the Twitter era…

12, Jun 2009

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A very peculiar practice
11 June 2009

Such is the pressure to write that academics have no time to read the flood of published work. John Corner ponders a slightly absurd position
Academic publishing has always had its own economy and culture, but sector expansion and the intensified push for print have combined [...]

Twitter and that Harvard Study

10, Jun 2009

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This post is taken directly from an email interaction with some Instructional Design colleagues:

It began when I sent this Twitter post and these questions to my colleagues -

What does it also say about how we engage in online contexts?  What does it mean for online course design?  What could it [...]

Wolfram|Alpha: another thing to frighten teachers…

19, May 2009

Making the world’s knowledge computable
Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

http://www.wolframalpha.com
Wolfram|Alpha was officially launched yesterday, and although many of us having [...]

EDUCAUSE AUSTRALASIA 09 – Day 2

5, May 2009

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Session 1: Symposium: Personal Learning Environments – What Works for Librarians
Lots of exploration of professional PLEs – variations from minimal to those expanding beyond “healthy boundaries”
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddkkfncs_329f3×3g2f4&skipauth=true
Symposium: ePortfolio strategies for the tertiary sector
Policy level approaches to uptake…
mobility, lifelong ed&training – RPL is a key concern – ePortfolio strategies might address some of [...]

EDUCAUSE AUSTRALASIA 09 – Day 1

4, May 2009

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Session 1: Sustainable Digital Literacy: (Peter Kandlbinder – UTS)
Expectations of the institution towards First Year digital literacy.
A range of “basic” technology skills are assumed.
Developing staff capacity (for quality elearning) (L Rankine – UWS)
90% of units have Bb site.
Qualitative statements about elearning
Selection of undergrad sites – quality was varied. But overall was [...]

Dean Groom on Social Media in Education

3, May 2009

Intro to Social Media In Education

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Dean Groom offers us a quick but insightful look at the possibilities for Social Media.  Not disimilar to Howard Rheingold’s recent assertions… seems there might be some significant impetus to push the slothful education departments around the globe into some meaningful change.

Big research players move to open-access

24, Mar 2009

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MIT makes research available on the web
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
Esteemed school joins others in advocating open access to research as the price of journals rises
By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
In smaller, less confident universities there still seems to be a misguided belief that holding onto new knowledge and [...]

Some reminders about the basics in Second Life

21, Feb 2009

Today I conducted a small tour of my research island, Godot, in Second Life.  The visitors were all people involved with, or interested in, Psychodrama.
As one of the virtual hosts for the event I would like to thank everyone who attended the session.  It was nice to have people back on the island.  Thanks once [...]


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