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Ripple

Posted in conferences, tagged , , , on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I spent a bit of time this weekend preparing my presentation for Ripple: the inaugural Chisholm Institute e-learning conference, coming up soon.  I’ll be talking about the learning expectations that the net-generation bring to the classroom, and what we might do about all that. They say:
‘Ripple’ will draw on the insights and experiences of leading [...]

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Social media no fad!

Posted in videos, web 2.0 learning, tagged , on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

An updated version of the ‘Shift Happens’ video; with an emphasis on the economic implications of peer review.

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Waves

Posted in videos, tagged , , , on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A second attempt to use Animoto; this time of some images of some waves from Lorne.

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Expanding Learning Horizons (Day 3)

Posted in conferences, videos on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Day 3 opened bright and early with look at the new Toshiba technology by James Nicholas (welcome ssd drives) followed by a great session from Glen Gore a ‘futurist’ who has worked with NASA, met Bill Gates, visited every country in the world (except for four) and worked on some important technology innovations; not bad [...]

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Images of Lorne

Posted in web 2.0 learning, tagged , on August 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Thought I’d have a go at Animto, a site that was mentioned today. Here’s what it did with the images. Well, it didn’t do anything first up, I think because WordPress doesn’t like Flash. But it does have an “export to YouTube” function, so here it is.

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Expanding Learning Horizons (Day 2)

Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So, Day 2 begin with Travis Smith: Scaling Innovative Practice
Travis talked about the Hattie research, and how that 22 of the top 26 things that make a difference to student achievement, are things that teachers can do. He talked mostly about how we skill up teachers to empower them around innovative practice and the importance of [...]

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Expanding Learning Horizons (day 1)

Posted in conferences, tagged , on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The end of day 1 of the Expanding Horizons Conference and a good day of conversations despite the wild weather.  This year the organisers have worked hard to increase the bandwith into the conference and it’s the first conference I’ve attended with a range of network connections beyond the conference website including a NING, a [...]

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Wikimania at ELH

Posted in Uncategorized on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve spent a bit of time this week working on a presentation for next week’s Expanding Learning Horizons Conference in Lorne.  I’m co-presenting with a colleague on using wikis in k-12 learning and really looking forward to it. We’ve been building a Wetpaint wiki for the presentation and want to feature some other tools like [...]

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