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December 04, 2008

LIVE from Berlin

December 04, 2008

Here is is. Programme notes to follow. The first days live radio show from Online Educa Berlin. Great fun.Click here to play or head over to my blog on the pontydysgu site for more listening options ...

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Educa Berlin - focussing on the fringe

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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Go Wesch young man

December 04, 2008

Everyone today was impressed by Michael Wesch's keynote speech to the Online Educa Berlin conference this morning. Wesch is considerably younger and more dynamic than I expected. He also comes across as self-effacing and certainly does not play up to his image of mover and shaker. Wesch spoke under the title of 'The Crisis of Significance and the ...

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.. And now a word from our sponsors

December 04, 2008

It's bitterly cold here in Berlin, but the snow has gone from the ground and the skies here today are a clear pale blue. I'm sat in the Marlene Bar of the Hotel Intercontinental just before the start of day one of the Online Educa Berlin conference. After wading my way through a couple of dozen German policemen, ...

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December 03, 2008

Anticipating live radio: back to the future

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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Emerging Pocket Guide to Online Educa

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 02, 2008

Digital students?

December 02, 2008

This just in from JISC mail:A Guardian supplement published today looks at the way technology has transformed education over the last decade. Sponsored by JISC to launch its 'Student experiences of technology' campaign, the supplement - 'Digital Student' - explores the achievements of institutions in this area and some of the future challenges as universities and colleges look ...

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December 01, 2008

Emerge in Berlin

December 01, 2008

This week is the annnual Online Educa Berlin conference, which brings togther some 2000 delegates from all over the world to discuss all that is new in Technology Enhabced Learning.And Emerge will be well represented at the conference. Amonst others, Emerge members Dai Griffith, Geroge Roberts, Neil Witt, Steven Warburton, Gilly Salmon and Steve Wheeler are all making presentations ...

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VLE Debate: Where's the debate?

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

Participatory governance - the IBM perspective?

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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