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Excerpt: Click to play Virtual Worlds London I was at the Virtual Worlds Conference in London. Unlike at the time of the last post, I was at this conference physically, in real life, not attending the talks, but interviewing the exibitors about the Virtual Worlds and services they were providing. I was there to do two things – the first was to report on the state-of-play about the use of Virtual Worlds in education and the second to network and try out a proof-of-concept experiment binding several technologies together that could be used in schools and colleges. Photo attribution to epredator CC some rights reserved…
Outside the Wire – passing notes in class – how interconnectedness is speeding things up
October 22, 2008
in advisory, blogging, conferences, Continual Professional Development, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, Educational Change, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, mobile, mobile learning, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, twitter, Web 2.0
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Excerpt: Photo attribution TKCS on Flickr CC some rights reserved licence. As an example of what I mean by mindset and informal learning in the previous post, I’m going to give a few examples in a series of articles on how people are joining up to create new and exciting practice and spaces in and outside education like never before. Informal/ Formal Real Life and Virtual Connections Practitioners are now connected by several informal networks that enable them to share resources at a blistering speed and to distill and innovate what they do in highly interactive ways; and the ways they are joining up…
Outside the Wire – how to co-opt distributed network devices, services and people to make things add up to more than just a sum of the parts in Education
October 13, 2008
in blogging, Educational Change, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, mobile, mobile learning, pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Uncategorized
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Excerpt: A little bit of history was made today of all days (it is the first day of the Handheld Learning Conference but it’s not that) in that Gordon Brown’s speech was broadcast/ blogged live from a Mobile Phone.Two Social media bloggers, Documentally and Sizemore got access to Gordon Brown speaking at the Thompson Reuters Newsmaker event about the timely economic measures and this was broadcast in a ripple effect out through the blogging community using such social media tools/ sites as Qik, Seesmic, Twitter, Phreadz and quite a few others.This reminds me of reading the real time feeds from when…
Clay Shirkey on the concept of Cognitive Surplus
October 8, 2008
in distributed networking, informal learning, Innovation, mobile, mobile learning, NAACE
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Excerpt: You can see his keynote at Web 2.0 Expo in SF. http://tinyurl.com/cogsur The idea of Cognitive Surplus is interesting. He is the author of Here Comes Everybody (spot the Finnegans Wake reference…). You can also hear a talk of his book at the RSA site here. (File plays at the bottom of this post – Credit: RSA) Now I saw this talk on the on the CITE JOURNAL page here. It was in the context of Informal/ Formal learning and the use of interactive digital media. I have added it to the Naace CP list of Digo links with notes and commentry. This is…
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Handheld Learning Conference Day 2
October 11, 2007
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Excerpt: You can pick up the live feed from the conference here. (http://www.handheldlearning2007.com/pages/web-video-stream.php) If you are reading this in the evening UK time then you’ll see the archive of posts running on a polling system. The programme for today is : 09:45 – Welcome – Graham Brown-Martin, Founder, Handheld Learning PLENARY 1 – “Policy & New Horizons” – chaired by Doug Brown, Deputy Director, Head of Learning Futures Unit, DCFS Opening Remarks – Jim Knight, UK Minister for Schools and Learners Opening keynote – Stephen Crowne, Chief Executive, Becta Tarek Shawki, Chief of Section, ICT in Education, Science & Culture, UNESCO Francesc Pedró, Principal Administrator, Directorate for…
