Tag Archives: PLEs

Jul 9 2009

making it personal – 7th annual @greenwich conference

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Yesterday I attended the 7th annual eLearning @greenwich conference “Making IT Personal“, which focused on the practical and theoretical, technical and pedagogical issues surrounding the notion of “self-regulated learning”, summarised by the key notion of “personalisation”. How can optimal (pedagogically … Continue reading →

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Jun 11 2009

Google Wave for e-learning

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Something that’s come to my attention very recently is Google Wave – Google’s reinvention of e-mail/instant messaging/collaborative editing/blogging/discussion boards etc. into one combined platform. The name still sounds a bit ominous to me, you’ll know what I mean if you’ve … Continue reading →

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May 8 2009

Plymouth e-Learning Conference Report

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The 4th Plymouth e-Learning Conference was an excellent event and for once I made good decisions in choosing which of the many parallel sessions to attend. I’ve not had a good track record recently! The best learning technology tool I … Continue reading →

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Apr 4 2008

Shock of the Old 2008 – Instalment 1

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Well, another week another web technology focused conference another broken WiFi network. I managed to get online for a total of 10 minutes so no live blogging from this conference. Stuart Lee (Oxford) kicked off with a very entertaining introduction … Continue reading →

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Oct 30 2007

More MoodleMoot

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As Steve has comprehensively blogged on this already: day1, day2 I’ll just add a few comments on e-portfoilos and some more stuff coming our way from the OU. E-Portfolios These have always been on the edge of my radar but … Continue reading →

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Mar 21 2007

Terry Anderson on PLEs

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I attended a CDE event today delivered by Terry Anderson of athabasca univeristy, canada’s equivalent of the OU. The session had been advertised as blogs and social software but the focus was Personal Learning Environments (based on social software).  He … Continue reading →

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Mar 21 2007

Eduspaces

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The external hosted version of elgg has been relaunched as eduspaces.  And I think elgg is defintely worth revisiting… I’ll certainly be having a more detailed look soon.  Just need a project  / interested academic…  Since I last looked at … Continue reading →

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Dec 11 2006

Personalisation of Learning

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On 8 Dec 2006 I attended a workshop on “Personalisation of Learning” in Manchester, organised by the HEA’s Supporting Sustainable e-Learning Forum (SSeLF). The day consisted of presentations by Oleg Liber (Bolton) and Mike Halm (Penn State), seeking to define … Continue reading →

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