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July 2007

July 01, 2007

Attending to the needs of the Emerge project

July 01, 2007

A note of discussions with Joe Rosa, Emerge Technical Lead.This note is principally derived from a meeting held at Oxford Brookes University on 27 June 2007, but draws on previous calls and conversations and a subsequent discussion on 30 June 2007.Since starting as technical lead for the Emerge project (25 May 2007), as well as working to keep systems ...

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July 02, 2007

My kingdom for a link

July 02, 2007

Hi all.This is a thought in response to Graham Attwell's first (and at this writing only) comment to my post here.Graham asks a good question. He is not certain whether a software development model can be transferred to community development. And, he expresses an entirely reasonable anxiety about my use of the term "management".I will dispense with "Management" first. ...

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July 03, 2007

Manchester Moodle

July 03, 2007

Hi allManchester Moodle is here. Development will be continuous. Make it yours.See you there... and here ... and there ...

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July 04, 2007

Lights under a bushel

July 04, 2007

Thanks to Stephen Downes for pointing to an excellent paper, "Openness in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access" by Brian Kelly, Scott Wilson and Randy Metcalfe. This paper documents the JISC's long standing engagement with the concept (is this distinct from practice?) of openness. The authors argue that "Experience has made it clear that there is a ...

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July 06, 2007

Emerge Forum: What it says on the tin

July 06, 2007

Hi all We have implemented phpBB in response to several requests that there be a threaded discussion forum. The Elgg is great for making blog statements and commenting on posts, but for extended discussion with complex turns it is not a easy as a forum. Similarly, while the Moodle forums are popular they are, for the most part, ...

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Voice Threads works

July 06, 2007

Thanks Nicola, for the pointer to Voice Threads. I tried one ...

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July 07, 2007

Educational games about Climate Change by Red Redemption

July 07, 2007

Red Redemption has been developing games for education about climate change issues. Operation Climate Control has been developed for DEFRA as part of the Climate Challenge Fund. The game is free for use by schools and other education institutions. The game aligns with Key Stage 4 of the National Curriculum. Climate Challenge has been developed for the BBC. Now, ...

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July 10, 2007

Community consolidation: Shared artefacts of our common experience

July 10, 2007

I was asked what I wanted out of today. I want groups of prople to share ideas that lead to projects being developed that are aware at the outset what other projects there are in the programme: projects that reference one another; projects that claim a territory and say we are doing this bit and it relates to what ...

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