Feb

8

Lecture capture and participatory media for education: a talk for eL@B

February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I suppose there comes a tolerance of living with a degree of chaos. Knowledge is quite loosely coupled, I find.The page I showed with the links came originally from a talk I did at the November eLearning at Brookes (eL@B) meeting on Participatory Media for teaching in Higher Education. The link to the slightly updated [...]

Dec

22

A week with an Android - well worth it.

December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I got an HTC “Hero” on 3 Mobile a week ago (early Christmas pressie from my beloved) and I am very pleased. There have been a few teething glitches and a few things I might do differently, but - well - wow!
I have had Ericssons for more than 10 years so switching to a different [...]

Nov

21

Curriculum design for new social media - a great illustration of incorporating digital literacy into the curriculum #pcthe

November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In “Introduction to Mass Communication,” I’d like to see more discussions about how personal communications can easily become mass communication because the Web has hyperlinked everything.  Students should explore the changing models of mass communications – how int he past, content used to be broadcast to the masses, and would then be shared person-to-person.  Today, [...]

Oct

27

Does it matter if students stop using courseware when the course ends? Digilit musings

October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

However, a bigger concern is for those services where I was able to track usage was that after the course ended, so did student use.

via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
This experience mirrors ours, though I only have anecdote to support it. Courses where PebblePad is used do not seem to engender an extended adoption of the platform for ongoing [...]

Oct

22

If the Twitterverse isn’t fed from outside, it is just an echo chamber #pcthe

October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The question of whether you can rely on Twitter to filter your reading is problematic. Yes following 8,000 people (or however many) will probably serve to satisfy most information needs. I am sure that by some number (10? 100? 1000?) a Twitter follower will be deep into a long tail of duplication. The other 40,000,000 [...]

Sep

2

Mail lists and more open social software

September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Chris Rust sent me a link. He said:
An Innocuous list you might want to give to the new staff course? Even better, you might get them to discuss adding their own?! Best wishes Chris
————————— Original Message —————————-
Subject: TP Msg. #961 The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes
From:    “Rick Reis” [deleted]
Date:    Tue, September 1, 2009 12:56 am
To:       tomorrows-professor [...]

Aug

26

Sustaining support

August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Further to the last post, Sustaining Communities, the tension in higher education is between: open educational dialogue and institutional pragmatics.
Open educational dialogue is concerned with networks or communities for information sharing, which take a user-centred approach to learning and design for learning on all scales. These networks make use of user-generated content for learning resources, [...]

Aug

25

New lecturer’s work blog

August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There is a tradition of keeping “work blogs”. Scott Wilson’s workblog is a touchstone for this kind of online identity and presence. Scott writes a lot on identity and presence and education (and here and here). This is written in my workblog. I feed stuff into here from my Posterous account. I use Posterous to [...]

Aug

17

A response to Leigh Blackall: The New Colonialism in OER

August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In many respects, OER and the Creative Commons licenses help propel US centered ideas of copyright and intellectual property, indirectly inserting such ideas on the back of moral concepts such as sharing, freedom and openness, as though sharing, freedom and openness didn’t exist before, and that the only way to protect such notions is with [...]

Aug

16

Defining “Creepy Treehouse” #pcthe

August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In the field of educational technology a creepy treehouse is an institutionally controlled technology/tool that emulates or mimics pre-existing technologies or tools that may already be in use by the learners, or by learners’ peer groups. Though such systems may be seen as innovative or problem-solving to the institution, they may repulse some users who [...]

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