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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November 08, 2008
The last two days I have been taking part of the 1st Network Trainers in Europe open online conference.This was a conference opened to everyone, but we knew that our main target audience would be people whose familiarity with technology was not as quite advanced as in the groups and communities some of us move about. Most of them ...
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October 22, 2008
Looks like November is a month dedicated to MOOCs! :-) You are invited to attend a session with Dave Cormier! Bring a friend too! ;-) When: 3rd November 2008, at 1800 UK Time (check your local time here) Where: Elluminate (enter here) Speaker: Dave Cormier, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Dave will be speaking about his experiences, ...
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October 19, 2008
Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one. However, while I've been talking about this a lot, I haven't made many written remarks outside of policy contributions ...
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September 25, 2008
As part of our project dissemination we were invited to bid for some additional funding by the HEA Engineering and Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centres back in July. This funding came from the JISC Widening Stakeholder Engagement call under the EMERGE UIDM project. This bid was successful and a call went out on the HEA Engineering ...
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September 25, 2008
Photo credit: Invasion by Henryleelucas Dave White's recent post, Not 'Natives' or 'Immigrants' but 'Visitors' & 'Resident' slipped by largely without comment, which is a huge shame and one I'm happy to try and remedy a little here. It's a must-read post because it does what a lot of people have been trying to do ...
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September 24, 2008
The open conference season is open and we started the bestway. Scott WIson shared very interesting perspectives on PLEs with us and our audience joined in with equal enthusiasm. Above all it was a great debate of ideas, where everyone had a chance to share their perspectives. And this is what EVOLVE aims at: an open discussion by and ...
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September 17, 2008
After the summer, it’s time to start warming-up with new discussions. The Open Seminar Sessions @ EVOLVE are back! This Month is about PLEs. Hopefully a lot of food for thought here!! This month our guest speaker is Scott Wilson from CETIS UK, who will share some thoughts about Personal Learning Environments The idea of ...
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September 14, 2008
So this is my round up of some of the highlights of my ALT-C2008, and links to some of the stuff we made & documented. Thanks to ALT for an excellent conference, and to everyone who I was lucky enough to get to hang out with this year. As Steve Wheeler's already noted, it was a excellent ...
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September 11, 2008
I'm delighted & honored to have won the Individual Award for 2008 Learning Technologist of the Year (pfd) at last nights ALT-C 2008 Gala dinner. The Award aims to celebrate and reward "excellent practice & outstanding achievement in the learning technology field", and was presented at the ALT conference in Leeds last night by David Cavallo, Chief Learning ...
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