If you haven’t already registered for Blogtalk Downunder then this would be an excellent time to do so! Here’s the registration form! And while you’re at it you should come along to one of the two excellent workshops (especially mine :o) on Thursday 19th May. 19th May 9.30am – 12.30pm – UTS Building 10, 235 …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Lemmings, Blackboard, Blogs & RSS
Derek develops his: “increasing concern with the lemming-like behaviour of institutions which lock themselves into proprietary enterprise class VLEs and then proceed to link with like minded entities” While BB are developing Feed2JS, just for themselves, with an RSS building block. Not, of course, that you’d know that from the blog……………………. Oh, and I’m almost …
Metta & Tong-Len
Aaron is talking about compassion in the classroom and practices that he’s learned. In particular there’s meta, “which is performed by forming the image of individuals or groups of individuals and wishing them well-being and happiness”, and tong-len or “the ‘exchange of self and other’”. Beautiful stuff, reminds me of the kind of things that …
The Carrick Institute
So, the new website is up for The Carrick Institute If you’re not familiar with TCI, they have a mission statement: “To promote and advance learning and teaching in Australian higher education” And lots of other, ahhhhh, ummm, objectives and values. Don’t get me wrong, it’s wonderful that we have this down here, it’s a …
KingOfPorn
One of the best photos I’ve seen for a while :o)
Blackboard Weblog
I’m probably the last person to post about this but hey, Blackboard has a weblog. Now… what we need is Greg Ritter as Scoble! Seriously though, good on ya BB, there are comments, a feed, some reassuringly honest writing (god, please never never go back to those press releases… pleeeeeeeease), some sneaks into new products …
Check out me logo :o)
What can I say, check out the new logo courtesy of Anthony of The Useful Arts… fantastic design!
The Augmented Social Network & Smallness
Finally got round to having a re-scan through all 63 pages of The Augmented Social Network over my salami & feta foccacia (’tis not all barbies down here :o) and had rather a lot of ‘bings’ (moire than your average lunchful). For example, the assertion that ‘the software and systems we choose for our communications …
The Participatory Education Revolution
Here’s an interesting bit of a presentation from Educause entitled The Participatory Education Revolution (abstract). Kinda like that cluetrain for education meme that Scott Adams was playing with a bit ago. “Education is a conversation. A conversation between teacher and student. A conversation amongst students, educators and industry. A conversation with the communities in which …
Folk Conceptions
Been reading a bit and hearing a lot about Wagner of late… I know that the folksonomy thing has died down a bit now but this seems pretty relevant to the semilattice thing as well :o) “Folk conceptions of the social order are frequently more complex and sophisticated than the matrices by which members of …