An interesting post on Clive on learning: Synchronous e-learning myths #1: An hour’s enough for anyone
The accepted wisdom is that webinars need to be short and sharp, but my experience so far on delivering our online masters in photojournalism and documentary photography at the LCC suggests otherwise.
Clive notes 2 presentations at an elearning network seminar Thinking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
