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Howard talks about key 21st century literacies.
Image by jdlasica via Flickr Over at SocialMedia.biz, JD Lasica caught an impromptu interview with Howard Rheingold on his Flip Mino HD video recorder. 21st century media literacies from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Meanwhile Howard has posted his own keynote from Reboot Britain on Blip.TV Related articles by Zemanta Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies […]
IDIERI6 – The Drama Education Research gathering in Sydney
I’m a little sad to have missed the IDIERI event in Sydney. I had hoped there would be a steady stream of updates via twitter and other channels but there seemed to be a dearth of activity in this arena. One small exception was the good folk from C&T who managed to find time to […]
Tracking the goings on at EDMEDIA 09
Me, We and Everyone: navigating the spaces between individuals, groups and networks (Nancy White) View more Keynote presentations from Nancy White. Stephen Downes – EDMEDIA presentation #EDMEDIA – Hashtags listing Related articles by Zemanta The Cloud and Collaboration (downes.ca) Critical Thinking in the Classroom (downes.ca) Networked Effect: Listen, Learn, Adapt, Respond …. (beth.typepad.com) Media Literacy: […]
Government 2.0 and Web 2.0 in schools
Image via Wikipedia An interesting report Web 2.0 in Schools. Given that yesterday Canberra was engaged with, and streamed live, its Government 2.0 Forum and announced the establishment of the Government 2.0 Taskforce (http://gov2.net.au/)– this educational focus may also get some legs and coverage. The twitterstream (#publicsphere) and live feed from Parliament (http://www.katelundy.com.au/live/) on Monday […]
Are Textbooks as we know them the bane of education?
Image via Wikipedia edublogs: Seth on why the textbook industry deserves to die Seth on why the textbook industry deserves to die Living The Dream? Seth Godin doesn’t just ‘do’ marketing but he teaches it regularly, too. His latest rant is on the insidious growth of the business of textbook writing and publishing, as a […]
A slant on academic publishing in the Twitter era…
Image by Gideon Burton via Flickr A very peculiar practice 11 June 2009 Such is the pressure to write that academics have no time to read the flood of published work. John Corner ponders a slightly absurd position Academic publishing has always had its own economy and culture, but sector expansion and the intensified push […]
The 5 Ps of Social Media (in education)
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/lon-safko/ten-commandments-social-media/five-p-s-social-media-where-do-you-start OK – according to this article the 5 P’s of social media are: PROFILES (note the plural) PROPAGATE PRODUCE PARTICIPATE PROGRESS The context is social media marketing – but I think the idea might be co-opted for education… Profiles can be about who you are as a learner (or teacher) within a specific context […]
Meet Milo – and think about drama, education and human development.
Twitter and that Harvard Study
Image by luc legay via Flickr This post is taken directly from an email interaction with some Instructional Design colleagues: It began when I sent this Twitter post and these questions to my colleagues – What does it also say about how we engage in online contexts? What does it mean for online course design? […]