Monthly Archives: September 2007

IWB positions

Posted on September 30, 2007 by

October hols roll around and DET NSW still poised to make an announcement on the procurement of IWBs (vendor support for one off placement) . My daughter’s primary school are fired up to purchase boards for every classroom. I’ve noticed … Continue reading →

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PLEs are what?

Posted on September 25, 2007 by

Colleague Janet Burstall sent this to me yesterday. Have you seen the discussion of PLE definitions going on in edna group? “I have picked out what I think is the most illuminating, useful post in the whole thing below – … Continue reading →

Posted in ePortfolio, Informal learning, platform, PLE, Social networking, Web2 | 2 Comments

CoPs

Posted on September 23, 2007 by

Graham Attwell’s post on a chaired presentation to the Alt C conference in Nottingham on International CoPs, included this excerpt by George Roberts- “Communities of practice are emergent organisations with tacit but clearly identifiable rules and other signs of identity: … Continue reading →

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Embedding Web 2

Posted on September 20, 2007 by

Workshop discussion last week with UK ICT in education policy experts, Owen Lynch, Tom McMullan and Jimmy Stewart and from Edu.au. Greg Black and Garry Putlin . Many trends were reinforced through the discussion: Increased use of Mobile learning devices … Continue reading →

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Achieving learning impact

Posted on September 15, 2007 by

This report from IMS Global Learning Consortium, looks at key trends in the use of technology to support learning. After 10 years of observing, four clear scenarios are identified: Rise of the learning platform [not sure what is defined by … Continue reading →

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Gen X/Y

Posted on September 13, 2007 by

At risk of promoting generalities about labels X/Y and digital natives/Net geners, enjoyed the thought piece from Alex Miller. For teachers in NSW DET about to embark on Electronic White Board release/Web 2 explorations etc, it would serve well as … Continue reading →

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Digital literacy in a knowledge economy

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

Essay on the ABC website (thanks Ian) by John Hartley, is a good encapsualtion of the argument for fostering real critical literacies to create open innovation networks. Although schools and universities certainly teach “ICT skills” and even “creative practice”, so … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, digital natives, education, innovation, knowledge, literacies, open content, schooling, Social networking, Web2 | 4 Comments

Superficial scholarship

Posted on September 10, 2007 by

Reading a recent article by Karl Kruszelniski on ‘How many words for snow do eskimos know’- resonated with thoughts on what constitutes academic scholarship. It  also highlights that we are better to have ‘open’ online knowledge environments to expose the myths, rather than … Continue reading →

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What Standards?

Posted on September 5, 2007 by

Next installment on education technical standards….seems like they are going nowhere. Is IMS claiming ownership of learning design standards? Adoption of SCORM is proving to be of uncertain benefit and CORDRA where are the Dan Rehaks? So in terms of … Continue reading →

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In search of a PLE

Posted on September 2, 2007 by

Still in search of what a PLE might look like, I came across this report on the SPLASH project. “The SPLASH project will contribute to the overall JISC e-learning program by addressing the use of portal technology and its integration … Continue reading →

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