Posted in mobile, technology on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I recently became aware of an article in HERDSA News entitled “HOW TO… get students to turn off their mobile phones“. This is meant to be a modern dilemma for university teachers according to the article. It flags three main responses to phones ringing or students texting in lectures -
ban all phones
shame repeat offenders
ignore the [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in education, learning, nz, schools, technology on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, technology on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Just added a del.icio.us ‘thingy’ to this blog. It should publish any new links that I’ve added in delish. Not sure how it will work / look so will wait and see. Probably won’t have any bookmarks to add for ages now having just been on a spree! This may just [...]
Posted in technology on Mar 1st, 2008 No Comments »
The Jotspot wiki returned yesterday. It was bought out by Google some time back and has now returned as Google Sites. As with most things Google, it has a clean interface and easy to access options and set up. Also, Google specifically deny all ownership of the material you create.
To [...]
Posted in lms/vle/cms, technology on Feb 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Not breaking news anymore but at the end of last week, Blackboard won their initial court case with Desire2Learn over patent infringement. Many think that this will run and run - firstly with appeals by D2L to the court and secondly with appeals by the elearning community to the US patent office.
Where will it [...]
Posted in future, learning, second life, technology on Jul 12th, 2007 No Comments »
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Katharine Berry is getting universal plaudits for the development of a web-based Second Life viewer. It uses Ajax and can cope with major functions like maps, chat and teleport but is not yet dealing fully with inventory or IM.
What I find interesting is the deluge of interest that has been shown in this development. Katherine [...]
