The presentation on blogs and educating the eflective practitioner seems to be going down well and has been picked up by Joan Vinal Cox on her blog Web tools for Learners .
You can see it directly from the player on the right hand side of the page.
I have to admit though that the look of the [...]
The first session of the work literacy workshop started today. The session is on social networks and focuses on facebook, linkedin and ning, and it has already inspired me to do 2 things that I was mulling over doing already but lacked the final incentive to set up. One was to properly set up my [...]
Demos has this on their website
James Nachtwey has taken pictures of a major health issue effecting countries across the whole globe. With the support of the TED conference (you probably know thewebsite) he is breaking these images in a series of public projections and events around the world. The images will be unveiled in London on the fly-tower of The National [...]
from the TED 2007 winners page
James Nachtwey’s Wish:
I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.
Watch the Video Talk
Update:
TEDsters Jon Kamen, David Rockwell and Stefan Sagmeister [...]
Photographer James Nachtwey will be breaking a big story globally on October 3 — using his powerful photographs to share a vital story that the world needs to know about.
TED is asking bloggers to support this initiative by embedding a badge on their sites (see below)
Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war [...]
Danah Boyd, one of the key researchers on the use of social media, is joining the microsoft research
team to work on social networking
here is a link to a fascinating talk she has just given there about how teenagers use social media .
(scroll down to find her talk)
Here is the abstract for her talk
Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena [...]
I’ve been working on applying blogging to developing Donald Schon’s concept of the reflective practitioner and his idea of the practicum as a
‘virtual world, relatively free of the pressures, distractions, and risks of the real one, to which, nevertheless it refers. It stands in the intermediate space between the practice world, the ‘lay world’ of [...]
I’ve just joined a free online workhop on work literacy looking at using social media run by 3 of the bestedubloggers around, michele martin, harold jarche,and tony karrer .Its run as a ning site, which I’m keen to see how it works as i have been toying with using ning to set up a social [...]
just came across this wonderful video ‘a vision of k12 students today’,
which makes a perfect compliment to michael wesch’s ‘a vision of students today’ (see my previous post). The message is ‘engage me’, exite me, energise me, let me use technology and the www – whatever, wherever, whenever. teach me to think, to create, to [...]
Thanks to anyone who attended my talk in the Wimba distinguished lecture series on wed 24th sept, there were over 60 people online from australia to the USA pretty much spanning the time zones. Here are the references for the talk:
Boud D, Cohen R and Walker D (1985) Reflection: turning experience into learning. London: Kogan [...]
