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Entries from October 28th, 2009

It’s Personal: Learning Spaces, Learning Webs (Steve Wheeler)

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · web 2.0

This says it all – each slide could be expanded into a dozen more. It’s Personal: Learning Spaces, Learning Webs View more presentations from Steve Wheeler.

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Pinging and private messages in Google Wave

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

When Google first introduced Google Waves to the world it was claimed that the design had been to start from scratch and imagine what it would be like to reinvent email. This strategy is no doubt the reason that the gwave screen looks rather like an early prototype of Google Mail with its areas for contacts, and […]

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New student led e-journal – Roundhouse: A Journal of Critical Theory and Practice

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Wordpress

Today sees the launch of a new politics e-journal – Roundhouse: A Journal of Critical Theory and Practice –  at Leeds University. A team of 3rd year undergraduate students have led the editorial process and the first edition showcases nine articles from recent graduates examining the ‘applied turn’ in Critical Theory along with an editorial […]

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Google Waves – first impressions

October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Like most early comments on Twitter re: Google Waves (henceforth gwave), I have not been finding gwaves particularly intuitive and was not at all clear quite what it might be used for. However, as I am using it more I am getting to like it. My two first waves developed into a mixture introductions and trying things out. I […]

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Open education

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · web 2.0

I have begun to develop a wiki devoted to the discussion and development of ideas about open education (http://terrywassall.org/wiki). As a practical contribution I wish to get involved in open education initiatives exploiting my substantive areas of sociological expertise, including the sociology of the environment and sociological theory and research methods. I think I already […]

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