December 25, 2008
Mark Kramer, aka @MAMK, will be talking at the London Knowledge Lab on Jan. 9th: Ubiquitous communication and mixed-reality computing scenarios are becoming commonplace and are influencing in the way in which individuals communicate and relate with others and their surroundings. This talk will present reflections of a nomadic learner who is examining how existing and emerging information & communications technologies ...
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December 23, 2008
I have a new Laptop. Its a work laptop, so it came with XP. I actually paid £25 quid to NOT have Vista, just because I didn’t have the time to figure out how I can transfer the XP licence from the old one. But anyway. I had to set it up. You know, install ...
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December 16, 2008
Judy Robertson has a nice story about a student from her interactive design class, who started the course with grave reservations about the use of Second Life, and added with an achievement award and a rewarding experience. She comments on the recent Guardian article and about other students’ feedback from the course. Judy notes: I ...
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December 15, 2008
Last week I gave a talk on, basically, the corrections I need to do for my thesis. Anna Sfard commented that (if I understood her correctly) “if that’s your model of narrative, then you should be able to find linguistic markers for it in student texts” I thought yeah. And then the ol’ computer scientist in me ...
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December 11, 2008
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December 01, 2008
I’m into the 2nd round, and up for votes ...
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November 17, 2008
The JISC-funded project on formative e-assessment () is being carried out by the Institute of Education, University of London. Using the Planet methodology (), the project is building a series of case studies, design patterns and scenarios of formative assessment involving a variety of electronic tools and software. These aim to describe the processes involved in formative assessment in ...
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November 17, 2008
In Their Qwn Words – Investigating the Learners’ Experience of e-Learning; What do we know? How do we know it? What do we dare to find out?’A series of workshops to disseminate the findings from the second phase of the JISC Learner Experiences strand projects will begin on 9 December in Birmingham1, followed by workshops in London (20 January ...
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November 12, 2008
Teaching and Learning Research Programme (Technology Enhanced Learning) Further to presentations given by Richard Noss (Director TLRP (TEL), London Knowledge Lab) at recent JISC programme meetings, I am pleased to announce that this ESRC/EPSRC funded research programme has published its first commentary: Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning at: For more information about the JISC-TLRP ...
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November 02, 2008
At T-2hrs, I put in my own little bid for the Knight News Challenge. Have a look, have your say, and if you fancy - vote: this project will connect existing open-source tools and web2.0 sites to create a platform that will allow users to broadcast and subscribe to news by location, time, and topic. Users ...
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