Monthly Archives: March 2007

OER discussion update…

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Brian

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Join the discussion: can open educators transform teaching and learning?

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Brian

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 … Continue reading →

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Openly abject…

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Brian

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An online video party after all

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Brian

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 … Continue reading →

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My blog can bring governments to their knees, quaking with fear…

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Brian

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 … Continue reading →

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And MediaWiki shall open content dominion over all…

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Brian

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 … Continue reading →

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What’s your favorite (educational) online video? Nominations are open!

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Brian

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 … Continue reading →

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Starting the day off right…

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Brian

… 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 … Continue reading →

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My dream keynote speaker, and other freeform bits

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Brian

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 — … Continue reading →

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Musings on mashups in the university… are we getting anywhere?

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Brian

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A mess …, originally uploaded by asmundur. So yesterday was UBC’s e-Learning Open House, which is … Continue reading →

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