Posted in conferences, e-learning on Aug 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Bernajean Porter gave the opening keynote on ‘Raising a Generation for Greatness’. She spoke about a three to four month window of opportunity for change to take place when an opportunity comes along, before the mould on the jelly sets, which followed up nicely from Bruce Dixon’s opening, which talked about the once in a [...]
Posted in e-learning on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I liked this cool looking graph from Techcrunch today, not just for its look at technology (I agree that tablet pcs are probably about to get some real impetus in the next year or so) but also because of its illustration of that cycle of innovation, expectation, hope, disappointment, small movements forward.
How might we apply [...]
Posted in e-learning, teaching on Aug 17th, 2008 No Comments »
“Teachers must become comfortable as co-learners with
their students and with colleagues around the world. Today it is less
about staying ahead and more about moving ahead as
members of dynamic learning communities. The digital-age teaching
professional must demonstrate a vision of technology infusion and
develop the technology skills of others. These are the hallmarks
of the new education leader.”
—Don [...]
Posted in e-learning, tools and gadgets, web 2.0 learning on Feb 19th, 2008 5 Comments »
Ning is an interesting concept; a build your own social networking site that lets you plug a whole lot of gadgets and widgets to create your own mini facebook or myspace for a group you organise. I’m not sure of the security and whether it would work in a school, but it seems to be [...]
Posted in e-learning, web 2.0 learning on Oct 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
I’m not one who argues for the abandonment of schools, or that technology will make some physical meetings of teachers and students obsolete. I’ve always described technology as enhancing existing interactions and while there’s no doubt that the existing configurations could be considerably improved I’ve always argued that schools provide social benefits beyond the academic. [...]
Posted in curriculum, e-learning, learning environments, web 2.0 learning on Mar 24th, 2007 No Comments »
DIGI[cation] is a very clean and simple looking online learning site that focuses on creating learning communities through e-portfolios. And hey, it’s got lower case words and crazy [brackets] in its name so it must be good, right?
I’ve been thinking again lately about the feature-set and usability we need to see in learning management or [...]
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