One of the biggest challenges for academics seeking to engage students via open, independent, student-managed spaces particularly blogs, is how to aggregate and manage contributions for feedback and assessment purposes. Mike Bogle and I have been following the progress of David Jones’ BIM ; an activity module for Moodle (v1.9 – BIM will be ported [...]
Entries Tagged as 'blogs'
EduFeedr: free and unfettered
November 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Issues, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Tools & applications
Tags:aggregation·blogging·blogs·edufeedr
Compulsory Blog Posts
December 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Networked learning, Tools & applications
I’m doing a whole lot of reading and research into the topic of classroom blogging at the moment, and have run into a recurring theme of compulsory student posting that I want to muse a bit about. The basic idea behind compulsory posting is that, rather than leaving topics or frequency of posting exclusively to [...]
Mat Wall-Smith: in conversation
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, TELT news, Tools & applications, Trends, UNSW spotlight
Last week Mike Bogle and I chatted with Mat Wall-Smith over coffee about New South Blogs, Mat’s work leading up to it’s existence, and media literacy in general. It was a rather noisy environment for recording but worth podcasting nevertheless. And in case you missed it here’s a link to Mat and Andrew’s recent interview [...]
Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching at UNSW
May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Syndicated Post
Given my role in the TELT project as an eLearning Researcher and Educational Technologist, I should probably preempt this post by saying the opinions and perspectives contained here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of UNSW, or the individuals in the video. Basically this isn’t a formal media release; they’re just my thoughts and experiences.
This video was posted just this evening on the UNSW eLearning Channel at YouTube and I thought it was worth sharing. This is primarily to establish a point of reference regarding …
Tags:blogs·Digital Culture & the Internet·distributed frameworks·Education·Educational Technology·Educational Technology & eLearning·elearning·LMS·moodle·online learning·telt·UNSW·wikis
Recap of the Sydney Educators Network Meeting
May 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · 111, events, Syndicated Post
In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to [...]
Tags:blogs·change·creative commons·Digital Culture & the Internet·Education·Educational Technology·Educational Technology & eLearning·innovation·LMS·moodle·networks·notes·open source·openness·policy·telt·UNSW·wikis
State College EduBlogger Summer Bash
April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · events
This just in. Cole Camplese from Penn State University, Jim Groom from University Mary Washington (Virginia), educator and Middle East politics specialist Ed Webb (sorry Ed, don’t know what institution you teach at), and others have just begun chatting on Twitter about organizing a “State College EduBlogger Summer Bash” at some point in the near [...]
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