Erik Larson over at Adobe blogs about a survey into future technology trends in the workplace. The survey identified four key categories of knowledge workers: Leaders – Young professionals who use a variety of emerging technologies both at work and in their personal livesActives – Largely over-35 year old professionals who have adapted to emerging […]
My mate Paul Reid has had some time lately to keep track of his personal learning… This from his recent post Attending an overseas conference with Twitter – he describes some experiences that we also experienced at EDUCAUSE in Perth… The challenge now for schools is to offer student access to these such conversations, especially […]
Keynote – Moodle 2.0 – Taking on The World Martin Douglmas Executive Director and Founder Moodle On the verge of releasing Moodle 2.0 – a comprehensive development and transformation – the mythical creature finally takes shape. Incorporation of web services… ported back into 1.9 as well – better integration with existing institutonal systems (student management, […]
@libsmatter live blogging on the floor Originally uploaded by catspyjamasnz It has just dawned on me that the most engaging sessions I’ve been to are those run by people who are actually out there in the wild – doing it for real in the real world of Web 2.0 Not those peddling institutional clones, not […]
Image by cogdogblog via Flickr Session 1: Symposium: Personal Learning Environments – What Works for Librarians Lots of exploration of professional PLEs – variations from minimal to those expanding beyond “healthy boundaries” http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddkkfncs_329f3x3g2f4&skipauth=true Symposium: ePortfolio strategies for the tertiary sector Policy level approaches to uptake… mobility, lifelong ed&training – RPL is a key concern – […]
Image by petaj via Flickr Session 1: Sustainable Digital Literacy: (Peter Kandlbinder – UTS) Expectations of the institution towards First Year digital literacy. A range of “basic” technology skills are assumed. Developing staff capacity (for quality elearning) (L Rankine – UWS) 90% of units have Bb site. Qualitative statements about elearning Selection of undergrad sites […]
This is the title of an article in the most recent Journal of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders* and it focuses on the transition years where learners are progressing from experiences of pedagogy to andragogy. Pedagogy is marked by the fact that is is generally the teacher who predetermines what will be taught, plans […]
Image via CrunchBase Linden Lab have just released the findings of their recent analysis of Second Life usage. 400 million hours of resident participation – that’s over 45,000 years for a single user! Given that the report also shows a marked increase in resident ownership and economic participation – it bodes well for MUVEs and […]
As an educator working to promote more effective, engaging and creative use of technology in teaching and learning I meet many people who are reluctant to modify their practices. This includes those who are fearful, those who are interested, those who have no interest and those who haven’t a clue. One of the common responses […]
introducing FeedBeater from diffbot on Vimeo.