Group items tagged

Openness and key points that might make a manifesto. Lot's to discuss here.

 DeFrosting Professional Development: Reconceptualising Teaching using Social Learning Technologies Thomas Cochrane, Vickel NarayanIn this paper we discuss the impact of redesigning a lecturer professional development course with the aim of embedding a community of practice model supported by the use of mobile web 2.0 technologies.

"All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty-first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social network sites (SNSs) available via the internet may provide promising contexts for learning to supplement school-based experiences. This qualitative study examines how high school students from low-income families in the USA use the SNS, MySpace, for identity formation and informal learning. The analysis revealed that SNSs used outside of school allowed students to formulate and explore various dimensions of their identity and demonstrate twenty-first century skills; however, students did not perceive a connection between their online activities and learning in classrooms. We discuss how learning with such technologies might be incorporated into the students overall learning ecology to reduce educational inequities and how current institutionalized approaches might shift to accommodate such change."

Kete is open source software that you can use to create online areas for collaboration for your community. Write topics and upload images, audio, video, documents. Discuss them all. Link them together. It's been called a "relational wiki" and " a mashup between content management and knowledge managment". It's a fun way to get things done.

Report on first use of the Kindle by a teacher. Has some useful links at end of article.

"Provide a whole system wide view of what tertiary education might look like in New Zealand in 2016. The work will use JISC collective scenario building strategies and, in turn, draw on and inform the discussions of the TeLRG."

"This is the first of a series of three posts on e-learning plans. This posts discusses why an e-learning plan is needed..."

Includes description of Discourse, a StackOverflow developed discussion forum.

"As part of my open textbook on Teaching in a Digital Age, I am working my way through theories of learning and methods of teaching. I will post shortly my initial draft on theories of learning and their relevance for a digital age. In this post I want to discuss the lecture and its relevance for a digital age. Comments as always are more than welcome."

I like most of these skills and think that they could inform discussion about graduate profiles and student digital literacies.

A piece highlighting an argument/misunderstanding that can often circumvent and derail critical discussions of educational technology.

Open conversation software

Forget Apps, HTML5 is the future (for mobile Moodle at least!)

Part of the debate on removing NC & ND licenses from the upcoming v4.0 Creative Commons. This argues strongly that these versions should be removed.

real-time audio and video with a shared desktop - not a fully-featured virtual classroom but good quality audio and video, can have multiple video participants

Great post in the consultation about the current NZ 3 strikes law.

Getting RSS from Twitter for searches on people, hashtags and phrases.