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Social bookmarking and other Web2.0 goodies

April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, TELT news

UNFED notes 28.04.10 Robyn demonstrated and discussed the use of social bookmarking, in particular using Diigo, a group-based tool that is great for supporting collaborative work (see Robyn’s previous post on this for links and resources). These tools have great potential to support group work, so have a play, and spread the word. Some other [...]

Learning and Teaching Gateway – have your say

April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · TELT news

Focus groups for Faculties to provide input to the design of the planned online L&T Gateway will commence later in May. We are looking for participants who have an interest in learning and teaching, including teaching support staff, and academics who want assistance with course design and development, applying for grants and awards in learning [...]

Learning futures: challenges for supporting technologies

September 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events

Here’s one for your 2010 calendar. The University of Southern Queensland is sponsoring Idea10 from 10-12 March 2010 in Melbourne ; a ‘series of events focusing on current and emerging technologies that support learning. The events will address opportunities and challenges for the infrastructure necessary to support digital education’, providing a national, cross-sectoral forum to: [...]

Evaluating student contributions

May 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, Networked learning

[image: Beatnic] In his post – 20 Ways to Evaluate Contributions to a Corporate Social Network Dave Duarte says: “From what I’ve seen, the main objectives of online social networks in companies are: to facilitate idea-sharing around a theme or topic ; help users find out more about their peers; form useful insights to solve [...]

Sydney gathering?

April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events

In a very interesting post earlier this week – Transparency = Leadership – Will Richardson referred [briefly] to the development of online learning networks as one of the most important steps educational leaders can take to lead change today. [The post went on to discuss the need for professional transparency in preparing kids for the [...]

TELT – a simple way to network?

April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Research

I have been pondering about this blog post for a while now, today is as good time as any to actually sit down and post it. Photo by dsevilla, Flickr – Creative Commons As part of my role at L&T@UNSW I’m in charge of coordinating the Foundations of University Learning & Teaching program (FULT). [...]

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