Posted in Conversations, Final Post, Innovation and Change, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2007
Since June 2006 Connections and Conversations has been the primary communication channel for NSW LearnScope. It has encouraged and supported critical reflection and debate around e-learning matters, highlighted new resources and concepts, and provided exposure to a diverse and rich range of thinking and ideas.
In NSW we have actively pushed boundaries and buttons to support [...]
Posted in Conversations, E-learning issues, Innovation and Change on Dec 19th, 2007
Among hundreds of sites, I requested Ning to be unblocked for TAFE users here in NSW. I’d forgotten about it - written off as another victim of the ether. But then yesterday I received this reply….
Colleague
You have requested access to www.ning.com or a social networking group established at this site. Currently the DET matrix does [...]
Posted in Conversations on Dec 11th, 2007
Oh dear…..
It’s a sad day when advocates of rights and voice demonstrate such ignorance regardless of their age.
In her recent acceptance speech for the Nobel prize for literature Doris Lessing spoke of how the internet, has ’seduced a whole generation into its inanities’ and created a world where people know nothing.
‘We never thought to ask [...]
Posted in Conversations, Culture on Dec 10th, 2007
Today I was down at the Learnatics Showcase in Building A, Flexible Learning Centre Randwick TAFE NSW where I met with a number of LearnScope team members and others who have been parts of project this year and in the past.
In the crowd was Tony Wittingham, Alison Wood, Brian McLaughlin and and many people whom [...]
Posted in Conferences, Conversations, Culture on Dec 9th, 2007
True to form Jo Kay ( and a number of other key people ) have accomplished no mean feat by hosting the Edublogger awards in JoKaydia today.
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I arose at 6.30am only to find I was 2 hours early. An hour later and I’d played with Ethan, cleaned the car and showered only to find [...]
Posted in 2007 teams, Conversations, Web 2.0, u-learning on Dec 6th, 2007
Posted in Conferences, Conversations, Culture on Dec 5th, 2007
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You’ll notice I’ve categorised this in the culture, conversations and conferences sections.
You’ll also notice I’m now in YouTube - eek !
Wish me luck because I’m about to be dropped into an SL presentation with Kim Flintoff from QUT being held as part of the NMC Evolution of Communication Symposium being held in NMC SL.
This [...]
Posted in Conversations, Culture, Innovation and Change on Dec 4th, 2007
Facebook seems to getting a lot of bad press of late. Social advertising and the move by Mark Zuckerberg to open it up to outside programmers to spam the network with widgets clearly gets up the nose of many users, yet it remains the #1 choice for many.
I’ve come across this Slideshare presentation which offers [...]
Posted in Conversations, Web 2.0, u-learning on Dec 3rd, 2007
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We live in an age of surveillance where even behaviour modifications occur in school playgrounds assisted by technology ….how novel.
Where did the teachers get to ? Are we out sourcing everything and trading innovation for quality assurance ? Have we changed capability development for workforce development for any strategic reason other than the obvious ?
Type [...]
Posted in Conversations on Nov 29th, 2007