social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
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XIXth Century Close Encounters of the Third Kind, originally uploaded by Feuillu.
Thanks to the friends who dropped by and offered their thoughtful responses to the discussion questions in the previous post. I’m grateful that [...]
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To their credit, the organizers of the OER meeting I’m at have recognised that there is an overflow of challenging ideas here, and they have proposed trashing reworking tomorrow’s agenda to allow for more open discussion of the key questions being addressed.
Those questions are framed as:
* What does transformed teaching and learning look like?
* What [...]
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The $100 laptop!, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer.
… to be amongst many smart and idealistic peers here at the Hewlett Foundation Open Education Resources grantees meeting. The range of projects represented here is awe-inspiring, and [...]
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So we delivered the Web 2.0 Online Learning Video Awards for the NMC conference a couple hours ago, and it was an absolute blast to do. We ended up using MediaWiki for our presentation space, you can check it out at http://video.learningparty.net/ — and yeah, I think we’re going to do more with that [...]
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It might as well be a Monday morning ritual — I have to apologise to my housemates and houseguests for my boorish behaviour the previous Friday night. Everyone else had gone to bed, I was reviewing the many awesome entries for the online learning video festival, and between my heavy feet, my clumsy snack [...]
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It’s hard not to get excited by some of the recent developments with MediaWiki lately. I finally started to wake up to the potential when Andy Rush blogged about a nifty online video extension, and all the other third-party extensions that are coming out. There was some great discussion of what MediaWiki could [...]
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Update: thanks for the response to this post, collected at http://video.learningparty.net – feel free to add more clips to the master list of nominations.
As Northern Voice was wrapping up, Jim Groom, D’Arcy Norman and myself got talking about fun things to do in lieu of standard conference presentations. We bashed around the idea of [...]
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… with a little Dadblogging. I was just about to head out the door this morning when my four year old popped out of his bedroom. I told him I was leaving, he nodded. I demanded a hug, and he indulged me. “Have fun today,” he said as I was walking [...]
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Erik Duval is asking for non-conventional nominations for a conference keynote speaker. Though it’s near-impossible to top his own suggestion (Laurie Anderson), it brings to mind my own long-time “if I could pick anybody” choice for a keynote speaker — Ken Freedman, station manager for freeform radio station WFMU.
Anyone who knows me or reads [...]
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A mess …, originally uploaded by asmundur.
So yesterday was UBC’s e-Learning Open House, which is a notable event for a few reasons, not the least of which is the chance to drink frosty pints while [...]
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