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a lang

"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" - 0 views

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    I like danah boyd's work on social media - her writing is very easy to read and always resists & deconstructs the simplifications that the mainstream media come up with in relation to technology and society. This talk is not as research-y as her other papers, but I like it because to a tech-novice such as myself it explains some of the principles behind social networking in easily comprehensible ways. The five properties of social media and three dynamics towards the end of the paper have been helpful for me in thinking about how to understand, and manage, the online mentoring for our social networking project.
Giles Martin

Spinning the Risk - 0 views

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    Flash animation for discovering the various ways of displaying the same information about risk and how much difference it makes to perceptions. Graphics and numerical data from trials in the media.
David Andrew

Project New Media Literacies - 0 views

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    The learning library
a lang

Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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    Maybe interesting to see the results of this study, when it comes out. Msot of it makes intuitive sense (but then I am usually suspicious when that happens ...) I quite liked this exercise: "students are asked to trace the spread of a claim from an academic journal to less prestigious forms of media, like magazines and newspapers, in order to see how arguments are diluted. In another, students are asked to pursue the answer to a research question using only blogs, and to create a map showing how they know if certain information is trustworthy or not."
David Andrew

YouTube - A Portal to Media Literacy - 0 views

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    Michael Wesch video - July 2008 - good critique of the state of education and our failure to keep up with changes
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    I have to admit that I'm a big fan of Prof Wesch. His "The machine is using us" video on YouTube is still one of my favourite Web2.0 resources. He's going to be one of the keynote speakers at the ALT-C conference in September this year...the conference has a terrible sounding theme.." 'In dreams begins responsibility' - choice, evidence, and change "...yuk.
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    > His "The machine is using us" video on YouTube is still one of my favourite Web2.0 resources. Chime - I love that video!
a lang

Student hoaxes world's media with fake Wiki quote - web - Technology - 0 views

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    A useful little vignette for illustrating to students why they should not trust Wikipedia as a source!
David Andrew

Launch event for report on Web 2.0 in higher education : JISC - 0 views

  • Launch event for report on Web 2.0 in higher education A  report  that  explores  the  impact  that web 2.0 and the collaborative, social web are having on higher education in the UK will be launched on May 12, 2009. The report, produced by the committee of inquiry into the changing learner experience, also contains a comparative international review covering the USA, Australia, South Africa and the Netherlands. The report, titled ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’, will be launched at an event at The Barbican, London and will be hosted by committee chair, Sir David Meville. He said, 'The report evaluates the challenges for universities and their staff in keeping pace with, and capitalising on, these trends and argues there are very strong drivers for change.' Ewan McIntosh, 4iP Digital Commissioner for Scotland and Northern Ireland will also be speaking at the event. The  committee was formed to investigate the impact of students’ widespread use  social  networking  technologies  such  as  Facebook,  blogs, twitter, podcasting,  YouTube  and  the  like  on  Higher  Education. Although an independent committee,   it   is   backed   by  all  of  the  principal  bodies  in  UK post-compulsory  education,  namely:  the  Higher  Education  Academy  (The Academy),  Universities  UK  (UUK), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC),  the  Higher  Education  Funding  Council  for England (HEFCE), the Scottish  Funding  Council  (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW),  the Department  for  Employment and Learning for Northern Ireland  (DELNI),  Lifelong  Learning UK (LLUK), Becta and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). When 6pm – 8pm, 12 May 2009Where The Garden Room, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
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    Launch next Tuesday in the Barbican
David Andrew

towards-a-framework-for-cross-boundary-collaborative-open-learning-for.pdf - 0 views

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    Useful overview including history of educational development etc
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