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Gen Y students using more Web2.0 than older students but generally in passive ways e.g. reading blogs but not writing them.

From Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning a short interview on continuous evaluation, open to evaluators and evaluatees. Splitting the formative / summative divide.

We need pokens!

The opportunities which can be provided by the Social Web are now widely acknowledged, ... We now need to address a range of concerns including those which have been raised at various workshops organised by UKOLN and delivered through MLA Regional Agencies and Renaissance Hubs. Such concerns include a lack of understanding (of what the Social Web is about); concerns over legal issues, technical challenges (such as interoperability, reliability issues), business challenges (such as sustainability) and related resourcing issues.

New tool for presentations

Slides on the new Moodle file structure as it relates to course files

Article & book on integrating Moodle2, Mahara and Google Docs. Looks useful.

"This new learning environment - an augmented reality/virtuality - consists of distributed virtual spaces generated by social software tools, and of the real spaces and objects, in which locative content has been added with mobile devices. Augmented reality, the reality overlaid with virtual reality, and virtual reality, in which representations of the real world have been embedded and contextualised, is enabling interactions both in real and virtual spaces."

Includes diagram showing role of digital technology on science.

Some of the assumptions and approaches to open science.