order / disorder

This Saturday, February 28th, Section 92A of the Copyright Act is due to come into force.
This website has voluntarily been taken down in protest against this law, which will be used to disconnect New Zealanders from the internet based on accusations of copyright infringement, without a trial and without evidence held up to court scrutiny.
May [...]

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Getting set for the start of the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) course being facilitated by George Siemens and Stephen Downes.  Is it significant that they are both based in Canada?  Being a geographer at heart, I find places and the connections between them interesting.  If I go somewhere new, I always like to have [...]

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There has been some discussion this past week on the Jiscmail VLE list about Second Life and concerns about the appropriateness of some material or events there for young students.  It's not so much that adult material is there, rather that the boundaries between what is percieved as straightforward, overt learning materials and other material [...]

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Been playing exploring my way round Second Life and currently our small team at work has been showing an interest.  It seems that we will all end up with an account at some point, even if it's just to see what the fuss is about.
Jisc have just finished an online conference - Innovating E-Learning 2007 [...]

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Just been hanging out in the Future of Education conference organised by George Siemens.  Leigh Blackall from Otago Poly has just given a very interesting insight into copyright and some of the difficulties with various creative commons licences.  This particularly seems to be the case when they try to use material that has a non-commercial [...]

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I was lost and now I'm found - well maybe!
I've been conscious that I haven't contributed anything either for myself or to this community for some time.  Not that you've been waiting for a post from me!  Nevertheless, I think that I'm the poorer for not finding the time to be here.  I have popped [...]

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<![CDATA[A short but interesting article http://ifets.ieee.org/discussions/discuss_july2005.html dealing with the reasons why institutions should adopt a 'joined up thinking' approach to the use / implementation of e-learning. Towards the end there is a section on pedagogical approaches for e-learning which is useful.]]>

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<![CDATA[http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Siemens article on Connectivism - a proposal for a new pedagogy reflecting the e-learning age.]]>

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<![CDATA[This is the first post in the HOME group. Here we will be able to decide what to buy for tea, whose turn it is to pick the kids up and any other mundane stuff.

Oh, and we can also work out how Groups work!]]>

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