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March 24, 2009
Reminder: Deadline 16/04/09: Computer Science Education Journal Special Issue on Social Technologies in CSE
March 24, 2009
Second Call for PapersComputer Science Education Journal Special Issue on Social Technologies in Computer Science Education Guest Editor: Professor Janet Finlay, Leeds Metropolitan University, j.finlay@leedsmet.ac.ukThere has been much interest of late in the use of social technologies to enhance teaching and learning. Increasingly educators are exploring the role of Multi User Virtual Environments and so called “Web 2.0” technologies, ...
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Future of Emerge - the clock is ticking....
March 24, 2009
At the last two F2F meetings there has been a lot of talk about continuing at least the online Emerge community and seeing whether it can "re-emerge" as something self sustaining. I have contacted privately those people (outside the support team) who expressed interest in helping to keep this going. But we are rapidly approaching the time we have ...
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March 16, 2009
Digital Literacy Debate
March 16, 2009
Picture credit CollaboraiveSociability by vaXzineI've put up a wiki to help organize attendees, resources, schedule and outputs from the Digital Literacy debate that will be taking place online, in Elluminate, on Friday 27 March 2009, at 1pm GMT. The event arose from conversations on Twitter, around the meaning and definition of digital literacy, and frustration about ...
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March 15, 2009
EVOLVE in Partnership with Educamp: Open Seminar on Enterprise 2.0
March 15, 2009
This month's Topic: Enterprise 2.0 - The potentials of social software for the learning processes in enterpriseWhen: Monday, March 16, 18:00 GMT / 1900 CETWhere: Elluminate (no Password required) Moderation: Cristina Costa and Steffen Büffel The guest speakers includes Willms Buhse and Pat Parslow. Isn't that reason enough not to miss it!! ;-) The discussion will focuses on the following ...
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March 10, 2009
ThoughtFest 09
March 10, 2009
Last week I was fortunate to be one of the attendees at the fantastic Thought Fest 2009 conference, held at the University of Salford's Think Lab. Organised by organized by Pontydysgu with the support of the JISC Evolve network and the European Mature-IP project, the event attracted top class learning technology researchers and practitioners from across Europe. Potential ...
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March 04, 2009
Emerge Continuation
March 04, 2009
Those who were in York in January or who read the ensuing discussions will know that there are moves afoot to ensure that the Emerge community presence continues in some form after the end of the programme. We have an offer from Oxford Brookes to host a follow on community and a gang of volunteers who are willing to ...
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February 26, 2009
Share your story
February 26, 2009
Last Tuesday we gathered online for a chat around sharing practice. It was quite interesting to be able to listen to the stories people shared about their experiences. The recording of the session is available here. We have now set up an open wiki to collect people’s story. Do check it here and add your ...
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February 25, 2009
Planet on video!
February 25, 2009
Planet has a new video in which we give an overview of the project and our methodology. Check it out and let us know what you think. There is also a high resolution version for large screen display. We are now working on a series of shorter videos giving more detail of each workshop and its activities. Many thanks to ...
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February 24, 2009
EXTEND/Planet discussion continuing on CABWEB
February 24, 2009
We had a really interesting discussion at lunchtime where a number of people shared stories of their successful teaching practice and we considered how the Planet process might help us to explore them in more detail. What was particularly exciting for Planet was that there were a number of stories that seemed to offer confirming examples for a couple ...
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Don't forget - join us for lunch!
February 24, 2009
Don't forget that today we are holding a mini-Planet workshop via eluminate - hosted by the EXTEND project. The idea is to come and tell us a story of some teaching experience you have had that worked. We want to know about the SITUATION - the context in which the event occurred; the TASK you were trying to do; ...
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