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Entries from August 2005

Wiki in support of a UG module

August 30th, 2005 No Comments

I am using a free hosted wiki system called JotSpot at http:www.jot.com. It is extremely limited in its free version but good enough to explore and evaluate the various features. I’ll post on this separately and list the features which I suspect are pretty impressive. It is my first experience of using a wiki system [...]

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Notes on George Siemens’ Elggradio podcast

August 23rd, 2005 No Comments

These are my notes on the inaugural Elggradio podcast: A Conversation with George Siemens 11/08/2005 available at http://elgg.net/elggradio/weblog/1814.html. These are notes only and do not reproduce the discussion word for word. They are a gloss on and interpretation of what I take to be the main points and may not accurately reflect what was said. [...]

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Blogs - individual or group?

August 22nd, 2005 No Comments

James Farmer of Deakin University is a designer, educator, writer and technologist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He keeps the blog, incorporated subversion, is the founder of IncSub (online education) and runs a blog consultancy through Blogsavvy. Blogsavvy has an educational blog,
http://blogsavvy.net/category/blogging-for-education/
In a post How not to use blogs in education http://blogsavvy.net/how-not-to-use-blogs-in-education James says:
“Group [...]

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The Blog of Proximal Development

August 22nd, 2005 No Comments

The Blog of Proximal Development at: http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog is written by Konrad Glogowski. He is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is researching the use of blogging communities in elementary education. The blog is “to vocalize some of my thoughts on this subject and comment [...]

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Self-education in e-learning and weblogs

August 22nd, 2005 No Comments

I have decided what to do with this blog and Elgg. I am going to develop it into a resource for me to learn about how to use blogs in teaching my modules. It will be a collection of resources and information I find or that is passed on to me by friends [...]

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