I have been a fan of Jessie Brown and his podcasts (notably SearchEngine on CBC and now TVO). I’ve spent many a pleasant walk to work listening to Jessie on my iphone. Thus, […]
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Social software applications in formal education.
Trends and Issues in Instructional Desig...
The second book I want to post about is the 3rd edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and technology that arrived on my desk yesterday. This one even came […]
Estonia and University of Tallinn
My friend Rory McGreal and I are very fortunate to have been invited to by the Estonian E-Learning Development Centre (oh to have a funded, national e-learning group and strategy!!) to present […]
Do National Broadband networks connect t...
Our friends at Digital Education Research Network (DERN) alerted me to an interesting review of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) which is largest capital project ever undertaken by the Australian government. The NBN […]
One Solstice to the Next
I’m a few days late with this Solstice Greeting to you! I decided to loose a few pounds before Christmas excesses this year, by having stomach flu for 4 days […]
On self-paced learning
The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed me about month ago regarding the “new” invention of self-paced learning and this week published the article Will Technology Kill the Academic Calendar? After spending at […]
Article on Social Networking in Self-Pac...
I’m wallowing this morning in the short lived glory of an article published yesterday in the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. My colleagues, Bruno Poellhuber (Univ of Montreal), Ross McKerlich and […]
ReThinking Disclosure and Surveillance
Like many educators with a social media agenda, I’m concerned with fear mongering, accusations and sometimes deleterious effects of snooping, stalking and Big Brother invasion of private spaces. The arguments […]
2010 New Horizons Report
I’m always interested in learning from the prognosis of the New Media Consortium‘s Annual New Horizon Report. The 2010 preview (7th annual report) is out – with still a few […]
Elgg developer/programmer
Jon Dron and I have received funding to enhance social networking amongst the distributed students and staff at Athabasca University. This is a two year position and requires programming skills […]