November 20, 2008
Next Monday we break new ground with our Sounds of the Bazaar radio show. We are producing a special issue of Emerging Sound of the Bazaar entitled 'Into the Dragons Den'. The programme is a fly on the wall special following the progress of a Dragons Den session organised by Emerge. The show goes out at 19.00 UK ...
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November 09, 2008
Last weeks Emerging Mondays seminar was on the topic of MOOCs and Open Course Models. The speaker was Dave Cormier from the University of Prince Edward Island. Dave spoke about his experiences, so far, of the CCK MOOC on Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, the technological platforms being used to support participants, the tensions that exist within the course ...
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November 03, 2008
Today is the latest in our series of monthly Evolve project seminars. This month it's about Moocs and Open Course Models 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 02, 2008
From the Wales Wide Web: First we had open educational resources. This was a step forward but the resources were variable in quality, hard to find and were often tied to courses which made them hard to use for self study. Those issues haven't gone away but improvements in search technologies and a wider general conciousness about the value ...
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September 03, 2008
Its September. Its conference season. Its ALT C. Can't afford the fees? Paper rejected? Tied up in pre-term preparations? Never mind - Sounds of the Bazaar is going out on the road to bring you the highlights of what is happening in ed tech, teaching and learning. And we start off with our first LIVE broadcast next Tuesday 9 ...
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July 08, 2008
This is the last LIVE Emerging Mondays radio show before we take a summer break. The theme: Edupunks. And if you missed it here is your chance to download or listen online to the podcast version. If you heard the live version you can listen again! First up in the show is Edupunk 'poster boy' Jim Groom - ...
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July 04, 2008
What is Edupunk? Stephen Downes offers a definition: "edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance." And an anonymous commentator on his post says: "I can't think of anything more punk than education. For the student, learning gives power to the individual. A society full of mindless ...
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June 25, 2008
The podcast version of Emerging Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE summer special. This edition was produced for the Jisc Emerge conference on Exploring User 2.0: the shape of future users. The conference day theme was digital storytelling so we thought we would talk to users - old and young and from across Europe. First up in the show ...
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June 24, 2008
Another edition of the UK JISC Emerge sponsored Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE internet radio broadcast. The programme will go out LIVE tomorrow (Wednesday) at 14.15 Central European Summer Time (13.15 BST). Interviews, features, music, poetry and more. Guests include John Pallister from Wolsingham School, Gunter Beham from the EU APOSLE project, the kids from Cwmglas primary school in ...
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June 10, 2008
Great fun on Emerging Mondays radio show last night. Ignoring risk assessments we broadcast live from across Europe, with Mark Kramer talking live over a public wifi link to skype on a mobile phone from the football fanzone in Salzburg. Many thanks too to Steve Wheeler and George Roberts for their contributions. And of course to our listeners - ...
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