Archive for the ‘elearning’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel. In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting up on YouTube. For example, this article ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Insight #3: If ePortfolios and other forms of electronic presence are going to be (or are) a core part of the way graduates ‘sell’ themselves to employers, then identity management needs to be taught at all levels of education. Identity management includes those aspects of identity which we intend employers ...
Posted in Learning Futures, australia, conference, elearning, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 10th, 2007
I’m at the Learning Futures Symposium today and tomorrow. I’m not blogging summaries of sessions because, to be fair, that’s often quite dull. However, I thought I’d take the opportunity to take the conference discussions to springboard some observations or thoughts that occurred during these interactions…
Insight #1: There is a ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
JD Lasica points to an interesting new report from the US National School Boards Association entitled Creating & Connecting /Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking. The report focusing on 'tweens' and teens, and has some really important notes about the role of social networking in ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
(I'm back in Perth, and ...) All over the world the WikiScanner has been uncovering interesting trails and tails of previously unnamed Wikipedia editors. PerthNow quickly jumped on the bandwagon and discovered the the Office of Australia's Prime Minister has been busy: The Prime Minister's staff has been editing ...
Posted in UWA, australia, elearning, politics, wiki | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Using PowerPoint poorly is probably one of the most common sins of academics in the early twenty-first century. Being told how to make slides properly is useful, but so is an eloquent example of bad slides. Thus, comedian Don McMillan makes all of our lives a little easier, ...
Posted in UWA, elearning, student engagement, teaching and learning | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 30th, 2007
In the midst of the blog-storm -- and increasingly, the mainstream media storm -- over cyberbullying and far worse threats made against 'A-List' blogger Kathy Sierra, Andy Carvin has taken the initiative and declared today - Friday 30 March - Stop Cyberbullying Day. While Sierra's situation is horrid and ...
Posted in elearning, participatory culture, personal, stopcyberbullying, web2.0 | 2 Comments »
