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“Intellagirl’s Dissertation” by Intellagirl

26, May 2009

“Intellagirl’s Dissertation” by Intellagirl

Visible Past – location aware learning environment

23, May 2009

Visible Past

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Visible Past is a location-aware learning environment geared toward the delivery, discovery, and storage of information, but using the spatial and temporal characteristics of that information as the organizing structure. It is being developed at Purdue University by a multidisciplinary team of faculty and students led by Dr. Sorin [...]

World Builder – one to think about

23, May 2009

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
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A feature from Global Kids

21, May 2009

This is a great little profile video – as much about the work of Global Kids as it is about Nafiza.
My impression is that learners like Nafiza are the leaders of the future.  These students are learning to operate at so many levels and projects like Global Kids are showcasing these students to the world.
I [...]

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 [...]

Adobe on the future of work…

19, May 2009

Erik Larson over at Adobe blogs about a survey into future technology trends in the workplace.
The survey identified four key categories of knowledge workers:
Leaders – Young professionals who use a variety of emerging technologies both at work and in their personal livesActives – Largely over-35 year old professionals who have adapted to emerging technologies to [...]

EDUCAUSE – Presentations

11, May 2009

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Some insights from my clever friends

10, May 2009

My mate Paul Reid has had some time lately to keep track of his personal learning…
This from his recent post Attending an overseas conference with Twitter – he describes some experiences that we also experienced at EDUCAUSE in Perth…
The challenge now for schools is to offer student access to these such conversations, especially if [...]

EDUCAUSE – catching up with the backchannels

6, May 2009

#hashtags – #edaust09

EDUCAUSE AUSTRALASIA 09 – Day 3

6, May 2009

Keynote – Moodle 2.0 – Taking on The World Martin Douglmas Executive Director and Founder Moodle
On the verge of releasing Moodle 2.0 – a comprehensive development and transformation – the mythical creature finally takes shape.
Incorporation of web services… ported back into 1.9 as well – better integration with existing institutonal systems (student management, timetabling, etc)
Data [...]


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