Posted in change, education, learning, nz, wiki on Jun 28th, 2009 6 Comments »
Is Wikipedia any use for students and academics? Are the derogatory comments justified and can it be used in ways that support learning?
So many times when I hear academics refer to Wikipedia it is in condescending tones. Comments from “You can’t trust anything in Wikipedia”, “It’s just written by amateurs”, “It’s not real peer-reviewed content’, [...]
Posted in change, education, future on Jul 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
Well it’s a conference, tiring and hard work especially with the 10 ½ hour days that they run. As always the people, networks and connections that you make seem the most rewarding part of a conference.
The conference theme is Engaging Communities and the opening address was eloquently given by Dr Pita Sharples gave that [...]
Posted in blogging, change, future, nz, schools, second life, technology on Jul 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Well no tweets from #herdsa. Why? Because there’s no freely available internet access in the conference rooms. We have broadband in the hotel rooms that works out at about $40 per hour; or we can pay for wireless in the conference lobby, but that doesn’t extend to the 9 different rooms that the conference is [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, technology on Jun 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Edupunk seems to be the word on everyones lips at the moment – well at least those that are talking about it!
See D’Arcy Norman; Lesley Madsen Brookes; Stephen Downes; Brian Lamb; Doug Noon
A conjunction coined by Jim Groom, however, as both commentators and protagonists seem to be agreeing, creating a name and a definition runs [...]
Posted in blogging, change, education, future, learning on May 16th, 2008 9 Comments »
Yesterday, we had a quick demo of Mahara by Mark Nichols as part of a wider day of information exchange. Mahara has been built as an eportfolio tool and appears to have taken some influence from Elgg. It contains a blog tool which has the ability to be kept private, shared selectively or [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, schools, technology on May 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Have been doing a lot of reading recently and assessment is a theme that keeps recurring. Ewan McIntosh and David Muir both blog a recent talk by Stephen Heppell where he revisits the idea of assessment equivalence. I heard him talk on this theme some time ago and I don’t think that the [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, technology on Apr 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
A few days ago, Christopher Sessums posted an article about a talk he had been giving on social networking. In his post he notes
At the end of my Social Networks talk, I asked participants what they would like to see in a social networking application. A young undergraduate student promptly raised his hand and [...]
