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December 02, 2008
Digital students?
December 02, 2008
This just in from JISC mail:A Guardian supplement published today looks at the way technology has transformed education over the last decade. Sponsored by JISC to launch its 'Student experiences of technology' campaign, the supplement - 'Digital Student' - explores the achievements of institutions in this area and some of the future challenges as universities and colleges look ...
From: Steve Wheeler - Read more
Monetizing Permission
December 02, 2008
One of the downsides of using free wikis as an ePortfolio solution is that the granularity of access control is less sophisticated than with some commercial ePortfolio solutions. Over the past week, I've updated the ePortfolios of Joanna Hughes (our fictional student exemplar) on WetPaint and Wikispaces.In the past, I've never had a firm preference for either ...
Credit Crunch Bubble Burst Death of Services Part 1
December 02, 2008
Death of ...
December 01, 2008
Planet and the Semantic Web
December 01, 2008
I had a meeting with Tony Linde (U&I Semantic Web) and Vania Dimitrova / Lydia Lau (AWESOME project - Leeds Uni) today where Tony looked at how the semantic web might be applied to JISC projects. With regard to Planet Tony suggested that there were opportunities to apply semantic Web approaches, particularly when we seek ...
Screaming jelly babies - we're f*cked
December 01, 2008
No BBC News and TDA, science is not about blowing things up:What the hell happened to intellectual curiosity? No wonder the career structure in science ...
Emerge in Berlin
December 01, 2008
This week is the annnual Online Educa Berlin conference, which brings togther some 2000 delegates from all over the world to discuss all that is new in Technology Enhabced Learning.And Emerge will be well represented at the conference. Amonst others, Emerge members Dai Griffith, Geroge Roberts, Neil Witt, Steven Warburton, Gilly Salmon and Steve Wheeler are all making presentations ...
From: Graham Attwell - Read more
SocialToo - too social by half
December 01, 2008
Jo recently blogged about SocialToo, a service which allows you automatically send a direct message (DM) to anyone who follows you on Twitter and to automatically follow them back (if desired). Admittedly, Jo talked about the service in the context of drawing students into particular projects we are running, but clearly SocialToo is aimed at more general ...
VLE Debate: Where's the debate?
December 01, 2008
At the Altered States conference (28 November 2008), Emerge hosted a debate - more of a gentlemen's discussion - with Martin Dougiamas of Moodle and John Fontaine of Blackboard from the VLE makers side and Mark Stiles, Dave Cormier and Lawrie Phipps on the side of the implementers and users; Sean Mehan chaired the affair (links to recorded debate ...
From: George Roberts - Read more
update on knight news challenge
December 01, 2008
I’m into the 2nd round, and up for votes ...
From: Yishay Mor - Read more
