FLOSSE Posse summary of the first Open Source in Education conference in Europe. Links to presentations, other blogs etc….
Blogging IT and EDucation
Handbook of enquiry & Problem Based learning
Online book – I’ve not read it yet, but the chapter titles look inviting & Steven’s comments make it sound worth a read:
This comprehensive volume composed of about twenty individual essays not only offers a good grounding in enguiry and problem based learning but looks at them in practice, as each essay contains numerous examples and case studies. If you are interested in either approach to teaching and learning, then this volume is a must-read. Nice to see the free download and Creative Commons license, too.
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Are $100 Laptops needed in Africa?
misbehaving.net: Are $100 Laptops needed in Africa? Useful points from an African Woman ……
WebServices for Teaching and Learning
The NITLE News Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2005. The main article of this edition looks at webservices, so pretty much tied up with Web 2.0. As the article concludes, Web 2.0 is very much in its infancy; the applications to education even more so. May well be interesting to look back at in say…
Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies
Thomas Vander Wal looks at the idea of a broad folksonomy (e.g. Del.icio.us) – where lots of people tag things – many using the same tags, some different tags, and a narrow folksonomy (e.g. Flickr), where a single person applies the tags. Ties in well with the work we’ve been doing with the MSc eLearning…
Issues re. Students and blogs.
Student Suspended over Blog Posts A potentially worrying report from Marquette University (US). A student has been suspended for the comments he’s made in a blog. However, if read this report, you’ll see that he’s commented about un-named staff & students, whereas other anonymous students have named staff in their complaints; equally, there must be…
first impressions based on tag clouds
apophenia has a nice look at tags. I’ve tried to use tags in the past – though have only tagged my own blog. By looking at a general tag clouds for Live Journal, Technorati & Del.icio.us, the markedly differing interests of the users can be seen….
Virtual Canuck ยป Educational Social Overlay Networks An interesting first post in a blog. Terry Anderson is looking at the way in which personal webspace (Blogs, portfolios etc) & educational webspace (e.g. libraries, VLEs etc) can & should be combined. He looks at the idea of a Social overlay network – so looking in particular…
Writely
I’ve already mentioned “Writely” though I have to confess that though I’d mentioned it previously, I’d not really tested it. Having read Brian Lamb’s review of it, I thought I’d really better check it out. I’ve set up an account, and am using it now, hopefully in the process of creating this particular post. Though…
The $100 Laptop- vaporware?
Teemu Leinonen takes a step back & looks at the practicalities of the $100 laptop. While I’ve been in favour of it in general & have reported on the progress quite a lot here, that was, in no small part, due to the technological innovations. I had thought about the practical implications quite a lot,…