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Kerry J

Geocaching Australia - Free and Open Geocaching - 3 views

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    Geocaching is the free high-tech treasure hunt where you use your GPS receiver to find caches hidden by other players. It's a great way to be outdoors, enjoy the environment and the revel in the thrill of the hunt!
Nigel Robertson

Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences for January to June 2011 - Nov... - 6 views

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    A long list of edtech related conferences for 2011
Rhondda Powling

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses | Beth's Blog - 0 views

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    A blog post where the author invited Gautam John, who works with Pratham Books, to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. In this post, shares more about how his organization uses Creative Commons licenses and why he thinks it is important for your organization to consider it
Robyn Miller

Virtual worlds: Australian presence and celebrity - Features - ABC Technology and Games... - 3 views

  • Wollongong-based Jo Kay has created a series of islands in Second Life and OpenSim that have become home to educators worldwide and are recognised as leading lights in virtual world education
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      Check out Jo's fabulous work at http://jokaydiagrid.com/ 
  • So what's changed? Absolutely nothing. Everything described above continues to occur, with a truckload of evolutionary steps undertaken. The only difference is that the innovators and educators have got on with doing the do, while the majority of the mainstream media moved on to the 'next big thing'. Second Life has grown exponentially over the past four years, although it has reached a plateau over the past year or so. Part of the reason for that is the emergence of other worlds where content creation remains king, such as the open-source option OpenSim or emerging Second Life competitors like Blue Mars.
Nigel Robertson

Perspectives in Assessment - 0 views

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    Abstract How we go about assessing HE students has such a significant impact on student learning that we need to rethink our whole curriculum design process to foreground assessment.
anonymous

Are you listening to this?… Why, yes. I am. But, are you? « Real Reasons to W... - 0 views

  • literacy is situated, contextual, social, multiple, active and a component of identity. New literacies don’t replace former literacies. This isn’t a situation of either “new literacies” or “old literacies.”
  • Teaching English is about opening up what counts as valued communication, inviting ALL students to engage in multimodal discourses, and to put their knowledge to work. We produce and consume media; expertise means leveraging tools and spaces in intentional, productive ways; and we participate in global communities that are keenly, deeply invested
  • importance of balance across literacies by providing opportunities for students to demonstrate their knowledge through multiple modes - and to engage, where possible, with “struggleware.”
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  • be transparent when teaching - and to empower students to teach and attain a whole new level of credibility. If I teach in the ways that they inspire me to consider, I am empowering students to engage with literacies that value the ways that they are multiply literate
  • They challenge me to be a gateopener, rather than a gatekeeper.
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    A response to Marc Prensky's BLC'08 session on teaching programming
Amanda Rablin

Mind Map: Best Online Collaboration Tools Robin Good's Open Collaborative Map for Learn... - 0 views

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    This is a fantastic, collaborative map of learning trends and web 2 tools.
Mark Boyle

edublogs: Angela McFarlane @ BLC07: Why do we build communities? - 0 views

  • I think eduBuzz.org has helped create not just this, but far more in terms of explicit reflection that wasn't there before. I'm wondering whether reflection is, in fact, a personal, private thing rather than a community issue, since often the community at large may not choose to be 'interested' in what you have to say. Take live blog posts, for example, written for the author more than the audience. The biggest problem of online communities, and we've seen this, too, in East Lothian and eduBuzz.org, is that novices in particular find it hard to filter information. Angela says that the problem is one students have, but so many of our teachers and managers also have trouble filtering what is important, what is of interest and might be important, what is of interest but might be a waste of time, and what is of no interest at all, personal or professional. Teachers and students are guilty of not knowing how to question the authority of an information source, other than to say blogs must be relatively poor quality and the BBC must be of relatively high quality (both, of course, had had their moments). And again, not just students but for many teachers, too, it is not cool to have an extensive vocabulary to express oneself. We see a resistance in students to use words to say how they are feeling beyond 'good', 'bad' and fine (and I'd be advocating the use of sites like We feel fine to both educate our students and help counter this claim to some extent), and we also see resistance from some teachers to use a more extensive vocabulary to think about teaching and learning. Finally, both teachers and students, because we over test, tend to not want to do anything that doesn't fit into the test. We cut and paste without engaging with material, we can take tests but cannot learn.
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      From Diigo
John Pearce

Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player - 0 views

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    Turn your computer into an internet TV. Download Miro to watch free internet video channels and play any video file.
Daniel Drury

80 Educational Video Collections | Open Culture - 0 views

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    Smart video collections keep appearing on YouTube. But rather antithetical to the ethos of its parent company (Google), YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find. So we've decided to do the job for them. These enriching/educational videos come from media outlets, cultural institutions, universities and non-profits. There are about 70 collections in total, and the list will grow over time. If we're missing anything good, feel free to let us know, and we'll happily add them. You can find the complete list below the jump.
Grace Kat

Main Page - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks - 0 views

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    Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003, since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 30,304 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!
Rob Rankin

Opening Up Education - The MIT Press - 0 views

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    Explore some views of future education - PDF edition available thanks to MIT Press
Peter Ruwoldt

Linux.com :: Open source programming languages for kids - 0 views

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    Review of Scratch, Alice and Shoes as programming environments for kids
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