Sep
30
Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia
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CNET News.com describes how Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia. The experiment began wit the posting of a rough draft to Wikipedia. After close to 400 edits in 48 hours the article was essentially the same length but more polished in content and presentation. The CNET piece comments: Andy Baio, who wrote about the Esquire experiment [...]
Sep
30
$100 laptop is coming
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An article in Macworld confirms it – MIT to launch $100 laptop prototype in November. This project has been talked about fairly widely over the past year or so but this is the first really firm news that that I have seen. The article includes a picture and describes key features – 500 MHz, 1 [...]
Sep
28
Report on attendance at AUC 2005 – the Apple University Consortium Academic and Developer Conference held at Wrest Point, Hobart, 25 – 28 September <http://auc.uow.edu.au/index2.html?conf/aucconf.html~mainFrame> The AUC conference is held every two years. It is unusual in that the AUC offers several subsidised registration packages to each of the member universities. I was fortunate enough [...]
Sep
28
Podcasting for learning
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The Otter Group has published a 1.6 MB PDF document on Podcasting for learning. The 12 page document includes some background about podcasting, examples of use and hints on how to do it. (Via elearnspace.)
Sep
28
Blogging and learning
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Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom has posted a reflection in which he brings together recent posts by George Siemens and Barbara Ganley. The Siemens post that he cites offers some explanation of connectivism as a theory of learning, distinct from other theories such as constructivism. Connectivism does not replace [...]
Sep
28
The Web 2.0 Is Here
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This post by Dion Hinchcliffe appears to be a useful stepping off point for anybody wanting a quick introduction to Web 2.0. Among other things it notes: that it’s actually happening today all over the place and you can use it now (see BaseCamp, BackPack, del.icio.us, Flickr, Kiko, DropCash, Meebo, AjaxOffice, Bindows and dozens of [...]
Sep
20
Hacks to get bibliographic support in OpenOffice.org Writer
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Peter Sefton writes about Hacks to get bibliographic support in OpenOffice.org Writer. He begins his comments with: OpenOffice.org has some good points, and some bad points. Then there’s the bibliography database; which ranks as horrific rather than merely bad. From there it seems to be down hill all the way. Peter is working here at [...]
Sep
12
Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype
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This teaser for a conference presentation, Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype, is worth a look for its insights into the variety of technologies being touted as part of Web 2.0: Web 2.0 isn’t a ‘thing’, but a collection of approaches, which are all converging on the development world at a rapid pace. These [...]
Sep
12
Millennials Go to College
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Michael Arnzen at Pedablogue writes about a demographic snapshot of entering college students at Seton Hill University – Millennials Go to College. Among the insights he reports was this: seven core traits of students who meet this demographic (essentially, those born on or after 1982). They are: special, sheltered, confident, team-oriented, conventional, pressured, and achieving [...]
Sep
5
Educational ecosystems
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George Siemens has posted in his Connectivism Blog about Designing ecosystems versus designing learning. His point is that many of our contrived instructional designs do not deal well with rapidly changing knowledge. Instead he proposes creating environments, learning ecosystems, in which learners would interact: Instead of designing instruction (which we assume will lead to learning), [...]