The start of an interesting four-part series about how teachers can take students on a journey from consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection.
Matt Bower, John G. Hedberg & Andreas Kuswara (2010): A framework for Web
2.0 learning design, Educational Media International, 47:3, 177-198
This paper describes an approach to conceptualising and performing Web 2.0-enabled learning design. Based on the Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge model of educational practice, the approach conceptualises Web 2.0 learning design by relating Anderson and Krathwohl's Taxonomy of Learning, Teaching and Assessing, and different types of constructive and negotiated pedagogies to a range of contemporary Web 2.0-based learning technologies. The learning design process can then be based upon the extent to which different Web 2.0 technologies support the content, pedagogical, modality and synchronicity requirements of the learning tasks.
Google have announced that the media you upload to your Google Drive account from whatever source you've got - be it your smartphone, your tablet, your Chromebook, or your desktop computer - can now be viewed from Google+ and shared directly as well.
Emerging Practice in a Digital Age draws on recent JISC reports
and case studies and looks at how colleges and universities are
continuing to embrace innovation and respond to changes in
economic, social and technological circumstances in a fastchanging
world.
The focus of this guide is on emerging practice rather than
emerging technology.
How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?
A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group |and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog |seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter.
...equipping students for the learning and assessing they will need to do after completing their course and the challenges they will face after graduation.
Simple overview of particular technologies and 'how to'. Not too strong in the pedagogy, but easy instructions for using various tools. Possibly good to share with novice users.