December 24, 2008
In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. Of course I welcome critical feedback about ...
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December 18, 2008
Its the Edublog Awards 2008! Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating the vibrancy of blog and social media practice to support learning. Voting is still open across this years 16 categories, and every vote still counts since most of the category ...
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December 10, 2008
The web is not just about providing information. Is there any news here? No, indeed there isn’t. We have been arguing that the web as it stands today is about enabling the individual to create and collaborate, to construct and to publish. It is also about participating and being included. And again this is also nothing that new, ...
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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
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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