Wcel_Team

The Writing Researcher is a new open activity which aims to bring researchers from different disciplines, institutions and countries together to share their writing and provide peer-feedback ina rather informal, friendly environment. ... As it reads in the blog we have set up for the project, The Writing Researcher: Inspiration, Creativity, Fluency  aims to: 1. promote and support writing as a creative, scholarly and collaborative enterprise, 2. encourage discussion and peer feedback in a distributed, shared environment, 3. establish an international, inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural peer network.

But we stressed the importance of letting go, and I repeated Dan Pink's words from my presentation: "Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement". We explained this would likely prove to be a far more successful approach than imposing a community on the team.  In other words the group needs to "own" its own community.

"Take a look at this list--a mere subset of the options that are possible--to see which of these technologies can support learning objectives in your classroom."

Cornwall College LSIS funded Research based project exploring the Issues for the uses of Facebookwith 16-19 year old Learners. Bex Ferriday.All the documents written as a result of the LSIS Facebook project are freely available from a range of internet locations. Documents are as follows:* Briefing paper (with case studies)* Suggested acceptable use policy* Plenary dissemination slides:paper and case studies available on Slideshare:

Google+ is the thread that Google wants to link everything - the one ring scenario.

RT @thomcochrane: @suebecks: Available now: a #guide to using #Twitter in university #research, #teaching... http://t.co/zLTX3792 #yam

"Flipping the classroom is a buzzword with little substance because it rearranges the same bad product:  the lecture."

RT @malckiwi: Classroom cooperation using #socialbookmarking: #Diigo http://t.co/pm5wtZZ3 #yam

Search and visualise Twitter connections by username or keyword search.

Tabetha Newman's site with links to her DigLit work

Using Appreciative Inquiry to approach change in organisations.

An event at UBC - useful to see what others are organising.

"... overseas students are offered help to cheat their way to UoWales-validated degrees and visas."

Talking about risk in leadership and education

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That;'s which countries offer women rights and quality of life.

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The aim of this briefing paper is to give institutions an overview of the mobile web space and an understanding of why developing hosted, mobile web applications can offer an attractive and viable solution that can overcome the fragmentation and deliver crossplatform services

This report outlines some technology trends and issues of interest and relevance to CETIS. It should be seen as a set of un-processed perceptions rather than the product of a formal process; a great deal of ground is not scanned in this paper and it should be understood that no formal prioritisation process was undertaken. The CETIS Horizon Scan should be seen as a set of potentially-idiosyncratic "takes", material on which discourse and disputation may occur to make possible futures more clear.

If you want to read about pathological morphogenetic processes and why the PLE notion may be flawed based on interpreting Ivan Illich then read on.