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	<title>order / disorder &#187; education</title>
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	<description>Learning in a technology rich environment</description>
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		<title>Wikipedia in Academia</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2009/06/28/wikipedia-in-academia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;You can&#8217;t trust anything in Wikipedia&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s just written by amateurs&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s not real peer-reviewed content&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herdsa Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enviroschools for authentic learning</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/06/09/enviroschools-for-authentic-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand has an Enviroschool scheme where it tries to support schools with sustainability.  One of the local schools here in Hamilton has just been on the telly detailing what they have been doing.
They started a garden to grow veg and teach the children elements of sustainability.  The project grew as they decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edupunk (Shhh..!)</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/06/02/edupunk-shhh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edupunk seems to be the word on everyones lips at the moment &#8211; well at least those that are talking about it!
See D&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogs, discussions and portfolios &#8211; learning, ownership and change</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/05/16/41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-web assessment in a Web2.0 era</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/05/11/pre-web-assessment-in-a-web20-era/</link>
		<comments>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/05/11/pre-web-assessment-in-a-web20-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 11:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t think that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enablers or providers of education and why that is difficult to change</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/04/24/33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six schoolkids die in Outdoor Ed accident</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/04/18/six-schoolkids-die-in-outdoor-ed-accident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago, six school children and a teacher were washed to their deaths in a flash flood on a NZ mountain stream (see stuff.co.nz and NZ Herald).  A terrible accident and it brings back poignant memories of a similar accident in the Yorkshire Dales, UK when two schoolgirls were swept to their deaths.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting used to NZ education</title>
		<link>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/getting-used-to-nz-education/</link>
		<comments>http://easegill.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/getting-used-to-nz-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had some wide ranging conversations about various aspects of education in New Zealand today.  All are anecdotal and several relate to personal experiences of my family.
Before we emigrated to NZ, we read up about what opportunities there were in learning, elearning, learning technology etc.  The government made a big thing about how NZ was at [...]]]></description>
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