Archive for June, 2009

Tracking the goings on at EDMEDIA 09

25, Jun 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 5 Ps of Social Media (in education)

12, Jun 2009

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 [...]

Meet Milo – and think about drama, education and human development.

10, Jun 2009

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 [...]


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