Sep

10

ITTE: education is fluid, non-linear, iterative (chaos innit?) #falt09 #altc2009

September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

IT in Teacher Education (ITTE)
 Session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869
 Barriers-research to understanding factors that inhibit IT practice in a fluid, nonlinear, iterative culturally complex world. Pathway is not an appropriate way to describe this multi branched space: cultural cartography or learning terrains. Communities (of practice) are the answer?
 cites Beetham, McGill & Littlejohn 2009
 CF Brown Lauder & Ashton 2008
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Sep

10

Two 72-hour txt sims are mini ARGs #altc2009 #falt09

September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Sarah Cornelius describes two 72-hour SMS simulations using edutxt (http://www.edutxt.co.uk). These are small alternative reality games (ARGs), or models of social action that run in real-time.
 Session is here: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869 Slides: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/attachments/0000/4429/alt-c_2009_sim.pps
 - Flood Sim: Flood control. You are the local civil defence chief faced with a flood event based on Vaison la Romaine floods of [date]. [...]

Sep

10

Dave Sowden Caboodles in a portal #falt09 #altc2009

September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

David Sowden gave a great presentation (session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869 ; materials here: http://prezi.com/-90jqrzyxcuy/view/#37)
 Caboodle, a UPortal-based aggregator of learner facilities for 17000 lifelong learners in 10 colleges and one university, provides SSO for all the VLEs (Moodle, Bb & Sakai), queries MIS in all the colleges and uses Sun ID management system to authenticate users. Firmly asserts [...]