Archive for January, 2008
Closer to Open Social Networks? Google and Facebook Join the DataPortability Work Group
From Catherine Howell via Educause. The possible future of the internet?
Ben Metcalfe, the DataPortability founder, has just announced that Facebook along with Google have now joined the DataPortability Workgroup.
Given that Google and Facebook are two of the biggest holders of social and personal information on the internet (Amazon are probably 3rd) this [...]
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The Hug Shirt
A glimpse of the future? Basically you can send hugs over distance though mobile phones.
“The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned phone number, all the data goes from the sensors Bluetooth to your mobile phone and your mobile phone delivers [...]
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F2F Event & Social Networks LEading to Richer Connections?
Via Stephen Downes blog. Should we consider using social networks to support or even facilitate training events / sessions / conferences? How many conferences or external meetings have you attended where you meet like minded individuals, take their details together with promises of future collaboration only to lose sight of them [...]
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Studying in Facebook
From the blog of Jane Hart (Web Link). I’ve mentioned in earlier posts about my on/off quest concerning student learning in Facebook. I’ve been aware of students using it for course based discussion and as a means of keeping into contact with each other. Lately I’ve heard about specifically designed Facebook applications [...]
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Google Vs Wikipedia
From the blog of Stephen Downes (Web Link). Look out because in the near future Google will be launching Google Knols.
A ‘knol’ is essentially a single unit of knowledge and so is similar to a learning object. Stephen Downes points out that Wikipedia articles can also be regarded as learning objects. [...]
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Educational uses of Digital Story Telling
This post is a big one (biggest yet to be honest). I’ve had some spare time and I’ve just been delving into the world of digital story telling. So this post is partly info dissemination to readers and partly getting my head together and summarizing what I’ve just read, (hence the size).
Digital Storytelling is a [...]
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Class Scribing Rules
Really one for the Primary Eds here. Scribing is a process by which class activity is recorded by a student in terms of the topics covered, resources found, group judgments and arguments etc. The summary is recorded somewhere, more recently as a post within a class blog or within the class wiki. This happens on [...]
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Wikis and Blogs Rules Ok
I’m currently trawling through a number of educational wiki sites (supplied to me by Marija Cubric) at Examples of Educational Wikis (Web Link).
So over the next few days I’ll be posting some examples here.
First off is a set of wiki rules which I found at this school wiki (Mr. Armstrong’s U.S. History Wiki, click here).
The [...]
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How to fold a T-Shirt in 2 Seconds
Mainly for Primary eds this one but worth a look if you’re interested in education full stop. Tom Barrett recently posted about an exercise in instructional writing in which he involves his students in reading and evaluating instructional text.
One set of instructions consisted of a single paragraph with no numbers of bullets. The second was [...]
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Facebook As a Learning Platform
Increasingly there has been a lot of speculation with regards to using Facebook as a learning platform and the article below is typical. Many people cite its social network aspect, allowing for groups of people interested in the same sort of ’stuff’ to converse and for ideas to spread on a viral basis. Indeed it’s [...]
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