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Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
I thought this blog post developed a nice, albeit partial, set of technology competencies that would certainly set our staff well ahead in the drive to flexible and online learning. The list is also the result of a particular [...]

NMC Releases Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition | nmc
As usual the Horizon report is fairly well grounded in the state of play.
The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition (1.3 MB, 32 pp) is available now. The report is free, and has been released with a Creative Commons license to facilitate its use, easy duplication, [...]

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In a recent discussion about online learning it was suggested that cross-posting, digression and double posting somehow foster confusion…
My response to that suggestion :
Confusion can also been seen as a natural state of humans when learning.  Let’s be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater… the ACT of having the [...]

People as the Platform

12, Aug 2009

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This strikes me as something that Education needs to better understand…..

There is something simply wonderful about a directory of people. And then enabling people to make the directory social. You quickly find not only the people, but who they are, who knows who, and who is paying attention to [...]

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Over at SocialMedia.biz, JD Lasica caught an impromptu interview with Howard Rheingold on his Flip Mino HD video recorder.

21st century media literacies from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
Meanwhile Howard has posted his own keynote from Reboot Britain on Blip.TV

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Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies (socialmedia.biz)
Traveling Geeks [...]

Me, We and Everyone: navigating the spaces between individuals, groups and networks (Nancy White)

View more Keynote presentations from Nancy White.
Stephen Downes – EDMEDIA presentation
#EDMEDIA – Hashtags listing

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The Cloud and Collaboration (downes.ca)
Critical Thinking in the Classroom (downes.ca)
Networked Effect: Listen, Learn, Adapt, Respond …. (beth.typepad.com)
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/lon-safko/ten-commandments-social-media/five-p-s-social-media-where-do-you-start
OK – according to this article the 5 P’s of social media are:

PROFILES (note the plural)
PROPAGATE
PRODUCE
PARTICIPATE
PROGRESS

The context is social media marketing – but I think the idea might be co-opted for education…

Profiles can be about who you are as a learner (or teacher) within a specific context or discipline – as well as identifying connections [...]


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