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Yearly Archives: 2005
e-Learning for Development: a model
Isma has posted a working version of his paper, e-Learning for Development: a model and if you’ve got some time I recommend you scoot over and take a look! “Beginning with a very brief case study of a free e-learning for development project, the Campus for Peace of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, this paper …
Cityblogs – WPMU & developing blogging communities based on physical / spatial relationships
If you’re interested in the use of blogs for developing communities then you might be interested in what I just posted over at Blogsavvy: Cityblogs – WPMU & developing blogging communities based on physical / spatial relationships. Basically it involves, in the first instance, trying to set up Melbourne Blogs, Sydney Blogs, Brisbane Blogs, London …
Developing successful social networking applications
Via Stephen, Dave Pollard comes up with “a set of principles … on how to develop Social Networking Applications that really do work”. It’s well worth a read but I’m unconvinced. There’s not one mention of anything approximating centred communication there… that I can see at least. It’s one of those things that keeps on …
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New eLearning Design Challenge
There’s a new eLearning design challenge up… interesting one too… scoot over there to offer your solution and see if you can better mine :o) Consider yourself challenged! “This Challenge was suggested by Susan Dilan, who lives in Puerto Rico. Recently her government has funded a campaign to encourage the populace to be nice to …
Centralised and alternative models of teaching development
I’ll be in pretty esteemed company on Tuesday 26th of July as the Pedagogy & Practice Group has a special session, Advantages and disadvantages of faculty-based and centralised teaching development activities. First and foremost will be Dik Harris and Yoni Ryan, should be a very good discussion. ***If you’re an academic in Melbourne with an …
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From FDR to Podcasts – effective use of audio in online teaching and learning
Am presenting tomorrow on podcasting in higher education, specifically how you produce better quality online teaching and learning audio material, save enormous amounts of money and be pedagogically… all at the same time :o) Here’s the abstract, posted way back in the day and here’s the online flash presentation. Hopefully it won’t kill anyone’s aggregator… …
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Yet another new design…
I never really liked my take on the Way-Too-Clean design (although I really like the current IBeBloggin’ design) and am far too fond of playing around with look and feel to stay still for long so have gone and done it again. New design is based around the Man~ja theme and am sure I will …
The Radio Conference 2005 – The cultural battleground of broadcast
Am currently at the 2005 Radio Conference at RMIT and enjoying it rather a lot I must say. Fascinating day yesterday thinking about micro-media, smallness, narrow-casting, communities, democracy and social conscience, sustainability, commercialisation and more. The more time I spend here and the more I think about what I’m about when it comes to social …
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What if your interviewer / future possible employer finds your blog?
I fully second Tom’s assertion… with the addition of ‘some’ ;) Checkout the guy writing behind a pseudonym(!): “The pertinent question for bloggers is simply, Why? What is the purpose of broadcasting one’s unfiltered thoughts to the whole wired world?” Ahem, perhaps you might pay a little more attention to your own writing first… eh?