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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-17

Michael Rowe — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:22:00 +0000

@Suhaifa it’s an easy walk, easier than lions head, don’t stress #
Daily Papert http://t.co/vJQhrNh4. We can’t solve the world’s problems with the same thinking that created them #
Critical Thinker Explains Skepticism vs. Cynicism http://t.co/Zmxh81m9 via @zite #
RT @engadget: MobiUS smartphone ultrasound hits the market two years too late for relevancy http://t.co/DaWRQqXo #
Stephen’s Web – Free learning: essays on open educational resources and copyright http://t.co/b8d7fDXK via @zite #
The atomic method of creating a Powerpoint presentation http://t.co/1ikf4gBO via @zite #
The Complexity Of Learning http://t.co/YSJfJwkq via @zite #
@USMCShrink Focus in education is that tech is good 2 get more content 2 more students in less time 4 less money, which misses the point #
A Tablet for the Blind? – Technology Review http://t.co/jBqyDK0R. Elegant and clever solution #
What’s Behind the Culture of Academic Dishonesty http://t.co/UuTvlENW. Cheating doesn’t help if learning matters more than grades #
#Zite now my favourite news reading app on the iPad. Flipboard not iterating fast enough #
Ask the Students: Their Wise Wishes for Improving Education http://t.co/KUDtKP6p. I keep saying that health education needs more art #
@USMCShrink its about not making the assumption that technology in education is automatically a good thing #
@USMCShrink I just highlighted a quote, so it was out of context. Did you read the rest of the post? #
“technology will be used…for the profit of corporations rather than…the benefit of children” http://t.co/RLAjJI5u #
If you are a clinician who supervises or teaches healthcare students, consider completing my survey http://t.co/x1MXf3AJ. Please RT #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-13

Michael Rowe — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:22:00 +0000

@mpascoe Thanks for pointing that out, here’s the link http://bit.ly/jcxBNr #
Tech-savvy doctoral students increasingly look to open web technologies http://bit.ly/jcxBNr (prev tweet has broken link) #
@mpascoe wrt students and lecture capture, study was done by a company selling devices for lecture capture…have to wonder about results #
One year on « The Thesis Whisperer http://bit.ly/jf84Rw. Interesting comments on what research students came looking for #
@sportsdoc_chris Thanks for the FF #
@simtho001 Who’s giving the course? What you covering? Would love to know what you thought of it when you’re done #
@romieh Great question. On looking further, it seems that the paper was released by a company specialising in lecture capture! #skeptical #
BioMed Central Blog : Exploiting the advances of multimedia technology in medical publishing http://bit.ly/l186Ad #
BioMed Central Blog : Bringing open access to Africa: BioMed Central announces far-reaching program http://bit.ly/jIktNm #
Cultivate your Personal Learning Network http://ow.ly/1tEHl6 #
Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? http://ow.ly/1tEHib #
Students Rank Lecture Capture ‘Most Important’ Blended Learning Resource http://ow.ly/1tEH8t #
Tech-savvy doctoral students increasingly look to open web technologies http://ow.ly/1tEGVJ #
Why Augmented Reality Is Poised To Change Marketing http://ow.ly/1tEGOM #
Periodic Table welcomes two new, ultraheavy elements, jury still out on the names http://ow.ly/5eHZe #
United Nations Proclaims Internet Access a Human Right http://ow.ly/5eHIT #
Daily Papert http://bit.ly/muCVu1. Many do not appreciate fully the ways in which digital media can augment intellectual productivity #
@RonaldArendse need something to do while waiting for kettle to boil #
Pic du Midi de Bigorre cloudy Wikimedia Commons.jpg [POTD for June 08 from commons.wikimedia.org] http://ow.ly/5ex2S #
Pic du Midi de Bigorre cloudy Wikimedia Commons.jpg [POTD for June 08 from commons.wikimedia.org] http://ow.ly/1tE5Rk #
Scottish university to introduce comic studies degree http://ow.ly/1tE5QP #
Wikipedia Is “Making the Grade” With More & More Academics http://ow.ly/1tE5Q4 #
A few improvements to discussions in Google Docs http://ow.ly/1tDvEU #
UCT open educational resource wins 2011 Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence http://ow.ly/1tDvEJ #
Introducing: Zotpress http://ow.ly/1tDvrH. Pulling Zotero libraries into WordPress blogs #
Daily Papert http://bit.ly/kgoatr. Children’s thinking “has its own kind of order and its own kind of logic” #
Technology in Schools: Local fix or Global Transformation? : The Daily Papert http://bit.ly/mIogF8 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21

Michael Rowe — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:22:00 +0000

RT @dreamingspires: RT @stevesilberman: First time I’ve seen the phrase “the American Internet.” http://bit.ly/anZeIc #
RT @barrykayton: Reading Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12 on Scribd http://scr.bi/cBGHrj #readcast #
From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments, by Michael Wesch http://bit.ly/daChh2 #
Gilly Salmon’s 5 stage model of e-learning http://bit.ly/c1MKHB #
Social Media Explained Visually « Learning http://bit.ly/9WcLne #
The Ed Techie: The return on peer review. I love the idea of only reviewing for open access journals http://bit.ly/cmeKmg #
elearnspace › The Return on Peer Review. Short post highlighting the absurdity of paying for journal access http://bit.ly/bQ6apB #
LMS: A Quick SWOT Analysis | Interesting summary of the advantages and disadvantages of the LMS http://bit.ly/cbGMhH #
Tagxedo – Tag Cloud generator similar to Wordle, but creates images with clouds http://bit.ly/cGSXK1 #
RT @cspenn: Aerial photos from the BP spill on the TED blog: http://bit.ly/dADN9W Ocean on fire a crazy sight. #
World Cup 2010 Twitter replay | Watch games as seen by activity on Twitter http://bit.ly/aOi5wq #
Learning Journey » Blog Archive » Don’t blame the technology! http://bit.ly/auhfWO #
2¢ Worth » The Teaching Profession http://bit.ly/9Tpice #
Plearn Blog. Personal Learning Environment Project. Some great posts http://bit.ly/auSVvI #
Vygotsky research poster, from Pontydysgu. Lots of content, but can zoom in. Interesting read http://bit.ly/cjLdPO #
Just upgraded my blog to WP 3.0 “Thelonious”. Haven’t played with it much, but new features look cool http://bit.ly/auQGdO #
Key Social Learning Roles. Table comparing different skills required to fulfill different roles http://bit.ly/aIyfum #
Internet stars are viral. Video on YouTube, made me smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_XEAA9X6c&feature=player_embedded #
History of the internet. Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&feature=player_embedded #
Mendeley Desktop v0.9.7 Released – from the Mendeley Blog http://bit.ly/dsyUc0 #
Absolutely loving the new collaborative editing features of Google Docs, please consider reviewing my draft article http://bit.ly/950gfG #
Just installed Meego on my netbook, and I’m…underwhelmed. The On the + side, the UI is clean and the system is blazing fast #
Recommended Reading for Blended Learning? | Digital Fingerprint http://bit.ly/bbZPYw #
OER@UCT | A search for education in an online world. Another Google Search Story http://bit.ly/c4KKaG #
Open academia. Post by Blackall on some of the issues in publication http://tinyurl.com/3ay9rld #
Writing plain English. Nice guideline for quantifying vague statements in publications http://tinyurl.com/33e3nu8 #
RT @umairh: Don’t be right. Be wrong. Everything transformative is wrong in the eyes of the status quo – until it becomes right. #
@cristinacost Not sure if you found anything on CARS model yet. Try http://bit.ly/cVTrY8 (it’s actually from someone at Salford) in reply to cristinacost #
@paulscott56 Do you know who’s responsible for tweeting from @udubs? in reply to paulscott56 #
@paulscott56 Just downloaded Meego (http://meego.com/), thinking of switching to it for a bit. Liked Moblin but it wasn’t ready at the time in reply to paulscott56 #
@cristinacost APA for us at UWC in SA. Only used Harvard once for an article…felt awkward after using APA for so long in reply to cristinacost #
@cristinacost I almost never read it, unless the paper has made a big impact on me. But I follow up on authors on blogs all the time in reply to cristinacost #
@paulscott56 Brilliant when campus is empty and the bandwidth is available. Is the UWC mirror still up? in reply to paulscott56 #
@cristinacost Intro/Discussion first, usually that’s all I read, unless the paper is relevant for my own work. What is “author’s line”? in reply to cristinacost #
@paulscott56 I did when it came out and have no regrets. Running stable & aesthetic improvements are nice, but otherwise nothing major in reply to paulscott56 #
RT @cristinacost: how do you read an article? in a linear way, or do you have your on way to make sense of the text ? #
The new Google Docs graduates. Improved real-time editing and collaboration features http://bit.ly/dBgG3w /cc @feedly #
Over 20% of the world’s scholarly journals now open access (http://ht.ly/1YAPt). Take note SAJP and others, the time is coming #
The Daily Maverick :: Secretly, Match blames South Africa. Great post by Ivo on how we’re getting screwed by FIFA http://bit.ly/bk4aSv #
RT @sbestbier: No way…awesome: “Google Earth: Hiker’s Edition http://bit.ly/bob5TZ"; – will be interesting for Otter trail in a few weeks #
Incorporating a back channel in a presentation or lecture http://bit.ly/b3LOlG #
Infographic: Facebook’s Labyrinthine Privacy Settings | Fast Company http://bit.ly/d703Sj #
Visible Tweets – Might be nice to have running alongside a presentation (with an appropriate tag) http://bit.ly/aOLboz #
PowerPoint Twitter Tools – integrating Twitter into your presentation http://bit.ly/dwOrv0 #
Incorporating a back channel in a presentation or lecture http://bit.ly/b3LOlG #
Incorporating a back channel in a presentation or lecture http://bit.ly/b3LOlG #
Towards the networked school – interesting graphic showing convergence of “different” educational domains http://bit.ly/9aa4Vm #
Willetts floats idea of separating teaching and examining. Comment by Stephen Downes http://bit.ly/amRrI5 #
The Future of the Journal. Basic idea = data is linked to the final publication and annotated with metadata http://bit.ly/coBX0J #
Collaborative and Co-operative Learning: The How and the Why. Slideshare presentation by Steve Wheeler http://bit.ly/baxJ9l #
Post It Note Stop Motion Animation. Pretty amazing project http://bit.ly/cqLpxj #
Some Sanity in the ‘Web Makes Us Dumber’ Debate http://bit.ly/b7v9WF #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15

Michael Rowe — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:22:00 +0000

@ryantracey Agreed. The process, rather than the certificate, should be emphasised #
RT @wesleylynch: Video comparing iphone and nexus – http://ow.ly/17iBb. Can’t imagine how the iPhone will survive, Android is already better #
RT @psychemedia: Are Higher Degrees a waste of time for most people? http://bit.ly/buKpOW. IT professionals are hardly “most people” #
University finds free online classes don’t hurt enrollment http://bit.ly/9zztuR #
Mobile Learning Principles – interesting, but unrealistic in a developing country. “Mobile” does not = smartphone http://bit.ly/97WUu4 #
Presenting while people are twittering, an increasingly common backchannel. Be aware of it and use it if possible http://bit.ly/bymSUE #
Presentation Zen: The “Lessig Method” of presentation. Great resource on improving your presentation skills http://bit.ly/aTykYr #
About “P”! « Plearn Blog. This post raises some interesting questions about the challenges of using PLEs http://bit.ly/9cDqd6 #
Crazy Goats. I don’t usually share this sort of thing, but this pretty amazing http://bit.ly/9Hg32e #
Learning technologies in engineering education. For anyone interested in integrating “distance” with “practical” http://bit.ly/a9lclC #
Think ‘Network Structure’ not ‘Networking’. I always thought “networking” was too haphazard to bother with http://bit.ly/acuw1g #
Clifton beach earlier today. I think I like it here http://twitgoo.com/dv85w #
@davidworth Hi David, thanks for the blog plug #
@sharingnicely: go around institutional pushback when policy is unfriendly to OER #OCW #
@dkeats: free content enables students to use scarce financial resources to acquire tech instead, which grants access to vastly more content #
Butcher: the curricular framework must drive development of OER – content comes after learning #OCW #
Neil Butcher from OERAfrica: OER can’t work without institutional support #OCW #
Why is copyright in OER even an issue? Copyright applies equally to OER and non-OER #OCW #
If you think of a degree as a learning experience, rather than a certificate, formal accreditation is less important. See P2PU #OCW #
Is there a difference between OER and #OCW I’m wary of the emphasis on content as a means of changing teaching practice #
@dkeats Improvement in quality is always important, isn’t it? No-one is aiming for mediocrity #
OCW workshop at UWC today, OCW board present incl. MIT OCW, should be a good day, quite proud its happening here #
RT @cristinacost: RT @gconole: Sarah Knight on JISC elearning prog including excellent eff. practice pubs http://bit.ly/c1wVF6 #
RT @c4lpt: MicroECoP – Uisng microblogging to enhance communication within Communities of Practice http://bit.ly/9ofx3O #microecop #
Making the Pop Quiz More Positive. I like the change of mindset that the post suggests, pop quizzes aren’t punishment http://bit.ly/d5IiMV #
@cristinacost Looks good, you’re further along with your project than I am with mine, I might have to come to you for advice #
Problem-Based Learning: A Quick Review « Teaching Professor. Nice, short summary of why PBL is a Good Thing http://bit.ly/cOAQeY #
@cristinacost What’s your interest in Buddypress? I recently set up WPMU/BP platform for physio dept social network to explore CoP #
Microblogging to enhance communication within communities of practice http://bit.ly/a0saa4 #microecop #
There’s a war goin’ on here, donchaknow? Retro copyright posters at EdTechPost http://bit.ly/aBsVwu #
Post by Howard Rheingold on crap detection on the internet should be required reading for everyone online http://bit.ly/dsGtha #
Scroll down for the 5 C’s of Engagement on Postrank’s “What it is” page. Is it useful for building social presence? http://bit.ly/983dcL #
Great post on 3 strategies to manage information: Aggregate, Filter and Connect. The last one is hard (for me anyway) http://bit.ly/diItNr #
Great post on the importance of not only filtering information, but using it meaningfully http://bit.ly/bk21Ol #
Siemens’ post on moving from educational reform within the system, to a “no boundaries” approach http://bit.ly/bMnKXu #
Web 3.0 and Its Relevance for Instruction – interesting article on how a next generation web could be used in education http://bit.ly/axYyEr #
Freedom helps kids learn more « Education Soon http://bit.ly/bBbGvB #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01

Michael Rowe — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:22:00 +0000

http://twitpic.com/10nta3 #
RT @TechCrunch: iPad v. A Rock http://tcrn.ch/c9s4Pq by @arrington #
@lvanblerk thanks for the comment, been looking into @Afrihost and been getting good feedback #
Just spent 1 hour on phone with Telkom trying to sort ADSL, then got dropped. Considering moving to Afrihost…suggestions? #
e4innovation.com » Blog Archive » New approaches to designing OER http://bit.ly/4Xc2Go #
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over. Or maybe that’s just what he wants you to believe http://bit.ly/85O9PG #