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September 2008

September 08, 2008

Emerge: Live at Leeds, ALT-C 2008, 9-11 September 2008

September 08, 2008

Participants in the JISC Users and Innovation Programme have been successful at ALT-C: at least 9 papers accepted in the conference. Well done, all. Of these ALT has agreed that we can Elluminate five:Tuesday 1130 Alternate reality games for inclusive induction (Argosi)Tuesday 1400 Multi-User Virtual Environments for Socialisation of Distance Learners (Moose) Tuesday 1600 The digital divide between the ...

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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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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 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 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 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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