Australian Blogging Conference: 28 September 2007
The big news of the day is that The Australian Blogging Conference, a fabulous-looking free one-day event exploring everything about blogging in Australia (including education and Creative Commons!)...
View ArticleLearning Futures: Day One Insights
I’m at the Learning Futures Symposium today and tomorrow. I’m not blogging summaries of sessions because, to be fair, that’s often quite dull. However, I thought I’d take the opportunity to take the...
View ArticleLearning Futures: Day Two Insights
Insight #3: If ePortfolios and other forms of electronic presence are going to be (or are) a core part of the way graduates ‘sell’ themselves to employers, then identity management needs to be taught...
View ArticleDeath by Powerpoint …
I don’t hate Powerpoint, but I do hate the way many people use Powerpoint. That’s why everyone should check out this excellent slideshow on ‘Death by Powerpoint‘ created byAlexei Kapterev: [slideshare...
View ArticleSocial Bookmarking in Plain English (and other wonderfully clear explanations)
Sometimes I find it hard to get the time to explain certain concepts – RSS, for example – which both have enough information and avoid boring to death those who already know things. Thankfully, those...
View ArticleReflections on the Australian Blogging Conference and Blogging in Education
As readers of my main blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT’s Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich...
View ArticleA Vision of Students Today
Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days. Their...
View ArticlePew Report: Teens & Online Stranger Contact
Those researchers and report-writers at Pew have released a short but important paper ‘Teens and Online Stranger Contact’. The details: Fully 32% of online teens have been contacted by someone with no...
View ArticleeLearning and the Environment
[This is a guest post by Heather Johnson] eLearning has been slowly gaining the recognition it deserves, thanks to the hard work of reputable instructors and students. However, it seems that mainstream...
View ArticleA Very CC Year …
As it’s the Creative Commons movement celebrates a birthday this week, I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on my year in CC terms, as well as showing off some very impressive CC-licensed work...
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