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Rubric of practises for the teacher in a modern info rich environment

ITinteroperability is a newsletter aimed at informing you about technical, standards and interoperability projects pertinent to education in Australia. It includes news items on local interoperability projects as well as summarising activity in international standards bodies relevant to education in Australia.

Great post on risk and the ways in which it can be portrayed. Uses a shockwave interface to allow you to change the way in which 2 health risks are reported.

Timeline of virtual worlds with links to longer descriptions.

european site with info and resources on benchmarking.

Vye Perrone blogs about problem solving and information literacy.

The future of information and freedom compared - Huxley & Orwell

Setting up Google Apps guide

Google going to allow delegated mail.

"To meet the goal of "preparing people for an ever-changing world", instructional programs need to apply strategies that focus on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, research, and lifelong learning. Those goals require a sociocultural approach to instruction emphasizing learning from experience and discourse. Sociocultural instructional designers question the applicability of traditional ID models because their molecular approach focuses on controlling the learner and environment, which often leads to inert knowledge. This article develops a sociocultural ID model and compares views of learning, roles of learners and teachers, instructional strategies, and the use of tools with the traditional ID approach."

"This web site has been designed for teachers and instructors in higher education to access a rich set of resources that support the development of flexibly delivered high quality learning experiences for students."

Mahara conference in the UK. Includes presentation slides with audio feed.

Some free teaching resources available on info fluency.

Metadata - an introduction! Free book.

"To gain the full educational benefits of the major new investments in corporate technologies supporting online teaching and learning it is argued that a strategic, systems based approach to academic professional development (APD) is required. Such an approach requires a clear view of the key areas of potential and enduring teaching and learning benefit which can be realised from online developments, including an understanding of the changing role of the academic teacher in higher education, the identification of the desired professional capacities to educate online, and the implementation of a number of coordinated initiatives to develop these professional capacities in order to engage constructively with the learning and technology opportunities. Based on previous work, we propose a 6three model of Academic Professional Capacities Development for effective APD of online teaching and learning. The model can help inform the actions of policy makers, executives and practitioners in ways that promote an authentic learning organisation."

Diagram of PLE and Portfolio model

Tim Hunt's posted a link to a 'cheating' article within the Quiz forum