Tag Archives: Wikis

Jul 7 2008

Languages Show-and-Tell

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Today I attended a Language Centre show-and-tell organised by Hervé Didiot-Cook and attended by teachers from the LSE as well as our good friends from Columbia University Language Resource Center – Bill & Stéphane. Challenges/Risks of Second Life Tamy Zupan, … Continue reading →

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Mar 11 2008

Columbia Wikis

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At a meeting with Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL)we talked a lot about wikis. They offer their staff wikis for teaching through an externally hosted service – wikispaces – which is one of several good-looking … Continue reading →

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Feb 13 2008

Another eportfolio

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Has anyone looked at Expo LX or any of the other tools produced by LearningObjects.com? I came across it at IoE Learning Technology Unit. It currently only integrates with Blackboard though the website states that integrations with Moodle and other … Continue reading →

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Jan 11 2008

Emerging Technologies and Careers

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I’m travelling back from Harrogate and the AGCAS “Emerging Technologies and their use in Careers” event and am taking advantage of the free wireless on the new National Express East Coast service. Excellent! My sessions were well received and I … Continue reading →

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Nov 7 2007

Good looking wiki

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Posted in: Social Media

I was sent this today (Thanks Tamy!) which has renewed my enthusiasm for wikis (if not SL!) http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/educationaluses It has convinced me that wikis can look good, so I’ve revisited wikispaces. As well as the basics you’d expect, you can … Continue reading →

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Sep 6 2007

Web 2.0 is evil?

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Posted in: Blogging, Conferences, Research Skills, Social Media

Yesterday evening at the “Towards a social science of web 2.0″ conference we witnessed an extremely interesting ‘debate’ between Charles Leadbetter and Andrew Keen; the former advancing a number of arguments that web 2.0, user generated content and open source … Continue reading →

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May 1 2007

Collaborative Software and Web 2.0

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The University of Edinburgh Information Systems working group has recently produced a report with the above title. Quoting from its conclusion “Collaborative technology such as IM, Wikis and blogs are fast becoming ubiquitous, and it is quite clear that the … Continue reading →

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Mar 28 2007

Teaching with Technology

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Over coffee this morning a couple of us were discussing Mark Prensky‘s chapter on How to Teach with Technology (PDF), part of Becta’s Emerging Technologies for Learning: Volume 2. In his chapter which, it must be noted, is focused on … Continue reading →

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Mar 21 2007

Some thoughts on Virtual research environments

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I have been thinking about virtual research environments. In this context I’m not so much interested in all singing all dancing high-end research environments but rather the provision of a set of tools that will assist academics in the kind … Continue reading →

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Feb 12 2007

An Essay Evolves

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Lynn Reynolds, a student and ‘Writing Mentor’ at London Metropolitan University is attempting to write an essay online over the next 3 weeks at http://evolvingessay.pbwiki.com/ Lynn writes: The prospect of tackling an academic assignment is often daunting and anxiety-provoking, even … Continue reading →

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