December 04, 2008
The edubloggers' meet, first live radio show, and the first dragons' den have been done. These events are all grabbing audio and video outputs of JISC Emerge-related activity, and represent three modes. Edubloggers was pure community building where people introduced themselves around a table : I am nnn from ppp and I blog about x. Any recording was random ...
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December 03, 2008
Dirk Stieglitz and Graham Attwell at Online Educa discuss some of the behind the scenes trials and tribulations of internet broadcasting, looking forward to tomorrows show. You can listen 1100 CET (1000 GMT) at in your web browser. The programme will open in your MP3 player of choice. ...
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December 03, 2008
This is my take on where to be and what to do, focussing on the fringe and unconference events around the JISC U&I programme and the Emerge project.Wednesday 3 December 1700 Drinks reception on the JISC stand2030 CET is the Edubloggers meetup in the Ambassador lounge bar Sorat Hotel Ambassador Berlin, Bayreuther Straße 42 · D-10787 Berlin (Five ...
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December 01, 2008
At the Altered States conference (28 November 2008), Emerge hosted a debate - more of a gentlemen's discussion - with Martin Dougiamas of Moodle and John Fontaine of Blackboard from the VLE makers side and Mark Stiles, Dave Cormier and Lawrie Phipps on the side of the implementers and users; Sean Mehan chaired the affair (links to recorded debate ...
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November 30, 2008
We all subordinate ourselves to, and participate in, groups. These may be states or other institutions at various scales: families, workplaces, corporations, education. In the context of a world in which "Absolutely everything is changing all the time," at a recent Harvard Berkman centre seminar, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, (read his blog) President Emeritus of the IBM Technology Academy and visiting/adjunct ...
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November 27, 2008
Seeing Steve Wheeler’s Emporer’s New clothes blog post reminded me of a little something we produced many years ago - now rebadged as The Vice Chancellor’s new VLE. Thanks to the wonder of Google Desktop I was able to find the original from about 8 years ago based on the experiences we had in about 1996 when I was working with ...
November 27, 2008
Altered States, the final Emerge online conference kicks off this morning at 0930 on an Elluminate server near you. Click on the Moodle link over there to the right (assuming you are viewing this in the Emerge Elgg site) across the microblog stream and join the conference. Last minute registrations and drop-ins welcome. See you ...
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November 24, 2008
You will have noticed that over this past weekend a Twitter stream has been incorporated into the Emerge site. This is a trial, but I quite like it.We took a decision to try this out because a lot of U&I-related conversation was taking place on Twitter. Also, one of the U&I funded projects: M3 developed a set of "Twitter ...
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November 22, 2008
ELESIG is a community of researchers that started with a small group of universities, which grew out of eLearning Pathfinding. Elesig has identified a number of functions that distributed (online) group/community members need to fulfill. I adapted these from Rhona Sharpe's presentation to Brookes eL@B on 20/11/2008. The slides may be forthcoming. Online Community ...
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November 16, 2008
It's great to see so many projects syndicating their web and blog content over to the site - it means that the community can share and connect in one handy place. Some of the feeds coming over are restricted however, meaning that people have to click through to the original site to view the entire post. I'd like to ...
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