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Entries from June 29th, 2008

Knowledge in an information society

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I have been wrestling lately to understand the difference between knowledge and information. I am finding this very difficult. What adds to the difficulty is that, of course, both terms are social constructs. There is nothing in the world that is either knowledge or information outside of what individuals or groups so label.This doesn’t make […]

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Online Conferences

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments · web 2.0

Over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week I attended the Emerge online conference Digital Communities & Digital Identities. (Josie Fraser, who did a great job organising it, has posted on this in more detail). I contributed as a presenter some time ago to a JISC Webinar on Web 2.0 applications for HE but this […]

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Amateur enthusiast captures electrical storm on Mars

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

True, I had had a couple of glasses of Rioja but this news video brought a tear to my eye. What’s that all about then? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468832.stm

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My PLE?

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Chris Sessums posted two days ago on what makes his personal learning environment. Academics tend to think more in terms of research and scholarship rather than learning which is both a pity and a mistake. I have for sometime been trying to persuade academic colleagues that they, just like our students, are first and foremost learners. OK, […]

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Challenging or conforming: the art of blended learning

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Teaching & learning

Last Tuesday I went to the latest event in the excellent Talking about Teaching series put on by SDDU at the University of Leeds – Challenging or conforming: the art of blended learning presented by Allison Littlejohn, Chair of Learning Technology at Glasgow Caledonian University. I found this extremely useful and got a number of ideas […]

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The world's a twitter

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments · web 2.0

I overheard on the radio this morning, while scraping the toast, some mention of twitter and the fact that some person in Downing St. is twitting (tweeting?) regularly about what’s going on there. I made a mental note to look it up on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme listen again. Partly because I usually […]

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Blogs and discussion boards

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Teaching & learning

I have recently been helping some colleagues in our Life Long Learning Centre to set up a discussion boards for tutors to share ideas on good teaching practice. We are using an OS product called phpBB installed and administered by our central web team. I thought the system pretty good and have now got an […]

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Today's excellent Eduspaces news

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Eduspaces

Today we learnt that Eduspaces will continue to be Eduspaces (not Educator Central) and is not being taken over by TIG. No offense to TIG I hope but I must say I consider this to be very good news. I joined the TIG site and had a good look around. Good stuff and interesting but […]

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DimDim web conferencing and collaborative working

June 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Teaching & learning

Thanks to my Twitter friends and FOATF I have discovered DimDim . These are a few notes on my first experiment. DimDim is a (still beta) free web conferencing system that can be used by signing up for the hosted service or the OS code can be downloaded and installed locally. To host a meeting […]

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WP as a web content management system

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Wordpress

I’m toying with the idea of turning my whole site over to WP using it as a content management system. I assume this would allow me to have a site blog as a tab on the home page. I’ll investigate further. In the meantime a couple of links to resources: WordPress as a CMS – […]

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