Jun

27

@AJCann Death of Seesmic via @josiefraser What’s it say about feedback?

June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Is video inherently flawed, or is this consolidation in operation?
via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
Thanks Josie for pointing this out to me. For teachers concerned with feedback, this is a key question: two really, because the consolidation question is separate from the question of the affordances of the medium. I am interested in the affordance question but do not [...]

Jun

27

Twitter, visitors and residents - were it ever so humble, is it home?

June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

there is a visitors vs. residents issue here (to borrow David White’s categorisation of online users). Twitter is a tool for residents. It’s about people being immersed. It’s about people “living a percentage of their life online“. When visitors get hold of Twitter they see it as a tool to get [...]

Jun

23

Iran: dialectic of revolution | open Democracy News Analysis

June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Iran’s epic political conflict reflects a thirty-year arc of revolution now using state power to crush its own children, says Hazem Saghieh.
via opendemocracy.net
Open Democracy can be relied on for a rigorous analytical approach to the issues of the day, well referenced and argued.

Posted via web from George’s posterous

Jun

21

Much retweeted abt retweeting; an emergent etiquette? apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The purpose of this paper is simple. We wanted to explore retweeting as a conversational practice. In doing so, we highlight just how bloody messy retweeting is. Often, folks who are deeply embedded in the culture think that there are uniform syntax conventions, that everyone knows what they’re doing and agrees on how to do [...]

Jun

21

Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I attended the opening plenary of the CICIN conference to hear John Raftery, ProVC for Student Experience and Douglas Bourne, head of the Development Education Centre at IoE, London.

Jun

19

@morageyrie draws my attention to Higher Education Academy: EvidenceNet

June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

EvidenceNet – which is to be a new repository for evidence in support of good teaching and learning practice, including resources, events and “networks” (in other words you can search EvidenceNet to find groups and organisations of interest).
via sheensharing.wordpress.com
Thanks to Sarah Currier for drawing my attention to Evidence net. This is to be a focused [...]

Jun

17

Tweet deck the new browser for the real-time Web? You gotta love the vision

June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

More and more, sites are serving consumers streams of information rather than static web pages. And today’s browsers aren’t set up to help us filter and digest this new format. So I started TweetDeck with a focus on Twitter but a bigger vision, to become a new browser for the real-time Web
via tweetdeck.posterous.com
and I love [...]

Jun

17

@Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators

June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

If we represented truly the worst-case scenario, then copyright infringement can’t be a really big problem, because we don’t have that much
via chronicle.com
I think the lesson here is that fair use practice in education has to lead legislation, not be driven by it. MIT has led the OER movement. As a pioneer and as a [...]

Jun

15

Is the book dead? Well, yes and no: Booking the future | open Democracy News Analysis

June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Is the book dead? Can the Six Sisters of publishing rescue books? Will publishers find a new profit model? Can bookstores survive the internet? Can writers make a living? What about e-books? Is Kindle the beginning and end of the revolution? Will Google Books be literature’s savior or executioner? Where does Scribd.com fit in?
via opendemocracy.net
A [...]

Jun

5

Another reason to drop EndNote? EndNote sues Zotero & loses @Downes

June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media.
Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in a Virginia court in September for at least $10-million in damages, claiming that Zotero, a free software tool created by the university, made improper use of the company’s [...]

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