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September 26, 2008
Cloudworks Summit at the OU
September 26, 2008
Cloudworks (CW soon to move to cloudworks.ac.uk) is a nascent site/service to support (a community of) practitioners interested in learning design (LD) and the design cycle as it relates to LD. For every answer there are 10 new questions and many contradictions, such as: process v producttacit v explicitbest v good-enoughmetadata v folksonomytext v imageweb site v web serviceinput ...
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September 25, 2008
Altered States: practitioners, innovation and institutions
September 25, 2008
Picture credit: jahdakine: Altered StatesWe’re really looking forward to Novembers Emerge online conference, Altered States: practitioners, innovation and institutions. Taking place in the week of JISC CETIS's annual conference Learning, Teaching and the Institution, Emerge's Altered States conference will explore the complex relationships between practitioners, innovation and institutions. Emerge members are invited to contribute their experiences, perspectives and ideas ...
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Nuances that shapes the Internet
September 25, 2008
George brought to my attention comments about issues of using the new Google - Chrome browser to access Moodle environments (Google Chrome and Moodle).I'm keeping an eye on the Moodle 2.0 release - it is expected beginning next year. It is more of a 'clean the code' and inputs from large users Open University type from UK, Netherlands and ...
Being There
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 23, 2008
This is fun: Wordle
September 23, 2008
Just had Wordle pointed out and have been endulging in a little light entertainment. Wordle "... is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide." I guess if it catches on they will have to implement some authentication. Now you can just do stuff and name it. The first is generated from the Emerging success criteria ...
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September 20, 2008
Fresh AIR blog aggregation
September 20, 2008
I am enjoying Adobe AIR applications. Many people are using the Twhirl desktop Twitter client. I have just installed Fresh (available here). I have used it to pull all the rss feeds I could find from the U&I projects into one reader, Click on the thumbnail for a bigger screenshot. ...
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September 14, 2008
ALT-C 2008: Radio, edubloggers, edupunks & digital divides
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
Learning Technologist of the Year 2008
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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September 09, 2008
Welcome new team members
September 09, 2008
I want to introduce two new members of the Emerge team. Emma Anderson and Helen Swain join us from Oxford Brookes Department of Publishing. Emma and Helen are working as investigators, synthesists, journalists, and editors (web and print) to help consolidate project and programme findings and to produce dissemination documents and reports for various audiences. They will be working ...
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September 08, 2008
Looking forward to ALT-C
September 08, 2008
ALT-C at Leeds promises to be, technically, the most interesting ever. It is good to see ALT pushing the boat out: Crowd Vine and Elluminate are starting to extend the conference into virtual spaces and for the first time there is a declared fringe F-ALT. ALT-C has always attracted radical learners and teachers and has been one place in ...
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