Tag: africa

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-22

Aug 22, 2011

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africa, agile learning, digital natives, google street view, open university, peer evaluation, publication, research, scaffolding, transformative questions, wikipedia, zotero

Researching then and now http://t.co/o9XqgCz. Great points on the importance of careful, deliberate reading in research # Out of Africa http://t.co/jl9d1EX. Educational innovation in resource constrained environments # Agile learning: How ‘making do’ can evolve into ‘making good’ | ALT Online Newsletter http://t.co/sNbaI1L # Scaffolding in Complex Learning Environments: What we have gained and what…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-20

Jun 20, 2011

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active learning, africa, bamboo, books, clinical trials, data visualisation, educational technology, engagement, history, informal knowledge, lunar eclipse, mendeley, network, opencourseware, phd, pln, podcasts, pomodoro, reading, research, research whisperer, supervisor, surgery, teaching philosophy, writing

Mendeley goes open http://ow.ly/1tTg3t # Books Everyone Should Read http://ow.ly/1tTfS6 # VLT Survey Telescope snaps out-of-this-world photos with 268-megapixel camera http://ow.ly/1tSyUs # Surgery podcasts go viral http://ow.ly/1tSxxI # Be like the bamboo http://ow.ly/1tSxut # Visualizing Facebook Groups at UCT http://ow.ly/1tSxhV # My Teaching Philosophy http://ow.ly/1tSx4p # The Rise of Informal Knowledge and the Teacher’s Evolving…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-13

Jun 13, 2011

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africa, biomed central, doctoral students, Google Docs, intellectual property, lecture capture, licensing, multimedia, open access, open educational resources, open web, papert, personal learning network, photos, publising, research, social media, wikimedia commons, wikipedia, writing, zotero, zotpress

@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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-21

Mar 21, 2011

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academic publication, africa, audio, Carl Sagan, comments, discussion, Docs Turns Its Comments System, feedback, Firefox, Google, google body, Google Docs, graduation, html, Moses Sitati, mp, outcome measures, papert, pdf, presentations, prezi, RT, twitter, xml

@paulscott56 Agreed. Twitter doesn’t allow 4 extended explanations. Basically, I Remembered I’m a physio, not a coder 🙂 # Google Body – An amazing free addition to the science classroom http://ow.ly/1scftQ # Using Audio more http://ow.ly/1scft8. Nice range between perspectives # Scholarly HTML – major progress http://ow.ly/1scfps. I used to wonder about an XML variant…
SAFRI residential session

Mar 11, 2011

in Education, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Teaching

africa, ethics, medical education, palliative care physician, physiotherapy, research, saahe, safri, Worcester

I’ve recently finished the second residential session of SAFRI, a programme for the development of research in medical education in Africa. I spent a big part of 2010 working on my SAFRI project (link to project notes), which I’ll be presenting at this years SAAHE conference in Potchefstroom. One of the main assignments for this session…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-07

Mar 7, 2011

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abstract, africa, angry birds, Bill Gates, books, China, Connect Teachers & Students Worldwide, Docs, education, emerging countries, gina tripani, Google, Google Docs, identity, Looking forward, mendeley, Naive teacher, online lectures, open content, poster design, Professor, research, RT, social media, TED, tedxcapetown, The Chronicle of Higher Education, twitter, uct, Wired Campus

Focus on the technology or not? http://ow.ly/1s78vm. Focusing on tech can highlight their relative strengths # Do you prefer printed books? http://ow.ly/1s78th. How we use books can impact format and device preferences # Making a Concrete Abstract http://bit.ly/gQzjN9. The most important part of your paper, the abstract determines whether your work is read # The…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-20

Sep 20, 2010

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africa, african education, alpha, android, blended learning, clinical education, cool site, Distance Learning, dropbox, facebook, george siemens, Google, irrodl, learning management system, learning styles, lms, networked learning, oer, Online Research, open data, open research, open teaching, personal learning environment, phd, ple, plenk2010, presentation, research, RT, slideshare, snapp, social networks, south africa, student network visualisation tool, The Chronicle, The Complete Android Guide, thuthuka funding, trailmeme, twitter, visible thinking, wcpt congress

RT @Glinner: The secret. Is the incorrect use of. Puntuation. RT @KrystalSim International Talk Like Christopher Walken Day…brilliant 🙂 # RT @davecormier: #PLENK2010 post http://bit.ly/c6M0Em PLEs – disaggregate power, not people # RT @paullowe: The Cognitive Surplus of a conference revisited – more reflections on #del10 http://ow.ly/2Grlz #altc2010 # RT @NancyWhite: Very cool site about…
Posted to Diigo 09/19/2010

Sep 19, 2010

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activities from various services, africa, data/semantic web, education, education disruption, educational systems, Europe, India, internet connectivity, Jon Dron, knowledge, knowledge infrastructure, large network, learning networks, learning systems, networked learning, North America, p2p, teaching and learning, technological infrastructure

Africa: Millenium Development Goals Knowledge in complex settings is a process of negotiation…an interplay of entities…a dance. And being knowledgeable in these settings requires an awareness of process and flow, not of being in possession of “knowledge” What has happened in journalism will also happen in education: breakdown of a single controlled narrative, increased role…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-23

Aug 23, 2010

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academic integrity, africa, CEO, cheating, cognician, conversation tool, facebook, inception, ipad, kmail, language, mendeley, online behaviour, online learning, pdf, port Zotero, professional behaviour, rapportive, RT, teaching problems, thunderbird, Tony Bates, twifficiency, twitter, United Kingdom, zotero

Cheating in online learning. Balanced viewpoint from Tony Bates http://bit.ly/adFoXT # Went back 2 Thunderbird after using Kmail for a few years. Really impressed with how it’s developed, I’m actually enjoying managing my email # RT @alastairotter: How the Internet is changing language http://bbc.in/95XmAo # @nlafferty Used 2 use Zotero until I tried Mendeley, which…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-16

Aug 16, 2010

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africa, assessment, cellular telephone, data portability, e-books, juxio, loneliness, mobile learning, morals, Pepsi, personal learning, plagiarism, prezi, RT, skyrove, social networking, speaker, tedxstellenbosch, terry pratchett, twitter, unseen academicals

Pepsi spill causes sticky mess in science blogging ecosystem http://bit.ly/8XiQ3N # Just started reading “Unseen academicals”. I love Terry Pratchett # Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal. I teach professional ethics in practice, and I agree with this http://bit.ly/b37kfw # Mobile Phone Learning on the Move in Africa. http://bit.ly/aVpdV3 # Juxio – combine image…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-09

Aug 9, 2010

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academic publication, africa, Agreed RT, AMEE, android eclair, apa style, blog award site, blog to book, BP, Bruce Cohen, China, cite twitter, community of practice, congress, cop, david wiley, discourse analysis, educause review, facebook, freedom of the press, Google, htc, htc hero, http, interim assessment, ipad, Justin M. Bonzo, keynote speakers, learning spaces, Library of Congress, medical education, medium raw, online spaces, open phd, personal online spaces, phd thesis writer, research supervision, rooting android, RT, search, sharing research, social media, south africa, Stuart Stobbs, supervisors, teaching with technology, tech4africa, tedx stellenbosch, the EDUCAUSE Review, Thought Leader, twitter, Wine, write or die

RT @JaneDavis13 Good thinking points RT @gcouros: 10 ways to think about your learning space… « Fantastic http://bit.ly/cdoBZf # Started reading: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, by A. Bourdain http://amzn.to/bPLxUN # #nowlistening to The Sinner In Me by Depeche Mode from Playing The Angel. http://is.gd/e8ylL…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26

Jul 26, 2010

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academic publication, africa, Albert Einstein, America, android, API, assessment, bamboo, bill burdick, Brazil, curricular alignment, david wiley, derek moore, digital divide, Distance Learning, Eaton, extended web, facebook, final research products, francois cilliers, generic skills, george siemens, graduate attributes, herman von rossum, India, Inside Higher Ed, Internet Runs Out of Addresses, iphone, IPv4, IPv6, irrational nonsense, Japanese forest, kewl, lecturer in the physiotherapy department, Mellville, mendeley android app, Mendeley Open API!, myspace, online community, Online Community Guide, open access, open source tools, ORT, pdf, personal learning environments, phd, physiotherapy, ple, portfolios, presentation, private server, research, RT, safri, scientific american, scientist, scribefire, slideshare, Social Learning Networks, southampton, steve wheeler, supervisor, systematic review, teaching and learning policy, times magazine, transformative learning, twitter, United States, web 3.0, weblearning, webx, wikis

RT @sguilana: the web doesn’t forget, an article at NY times magazine worth reading: http://is.gd/dHIl9 # RT @wesleylynch: Awesome – need this on a t shirt – RT @jacquesmillard: the periodic table of irrational nonsense http://ow.ly/2gbQb. # Podcast with George Siemens on Social Learning Networks: from theory to practice http://bit.ly/9fCUQa # Teaching for Transformative Learning…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24

May 24, 2010

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africa, apa style, blooms taxonomy, College Art Exhibit Celebrates, critical thinking, downes, drawing. solitude, e-portfolios, facebook, latin abbreviations, legitimate peripheral participation, lurking, nancy white, NASA HD, networked learning, podcasting, privacy, productivity, Professor, real-time collaborative word processing, research, saide, sketchpad, sync.in, Tony Bates, twitter, ubuntu, ubuntu unity shell, writing, xkcd, youtube, Zen Habits

Academic Productivity » New paths to “research productivity” http://bit.ly/dBnPYO # Bloom’s Taxonomy. Useful illustration with additional information that may assist with implementation http://bit.ly/cAFYwr # The Cronk of Higher Education » College Art Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of Boredom in Academia (humour) http://bit.ly/cBufLp # APA Style Blog: It’s All Latin to Me: Latin Abbreviations in Scholarly…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-03

May 3, 2010

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africa, african virtual school, Duke It, facebook, Internet Studies, literacy, mobile learning, mobile phones, powerpoint, prvacy, rural communities, south africa, twitter, US military, World Bank, World Bank Blog, writing

m4Lit Project, exploring the use of mobile phones to promote literacy in South Africa http://bit.ly/aluIZS # Mobile Phones and Literacy in Rural Communities | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education http://bit.ly/cIakYu # The African Virtual School, offering maths, english and ICT courses to learners across Africa http://bit.ly/9aP7ln # @sbestbier Powerpoint as used…
SAFRI: drafting the proposal

Mar 4, 2010

in Education, Research

africa, faimer, project, research, safri, supervisor

Day 2 of the first residential session felt really productive, although I’m not sure if that was because I worked hard or because I spent most of the day staring at my tiny netbook screen (I love my NC10 but it’s definitely not for 8+ hour shifts). Before beginning this session, each of use had…
Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa conference

Nov 28, 2009

in Conference, Education

africa, education, Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa, heltasa, higher education teaching and learning association of south africa, johannesburg, printing facilities, speaker, The campus, university of johannesburg, wireless access

I just got home from the HELTASA conference (my first) at the University of Johannesburg. I’ve enjoyed the last 4 days, and think the conference organisers did a great job of making the programme interesting and engaging. The keynote speakers were all very different, and each brought an interesting dimension to the event. Here’s a…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-19

Oct 19, 2009

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africa, blogging, emerging tech, field blogging, online course, siemens

Career Advice: Decentralized Work: Inside Higher Ed (“work is not where you go, it’s what you do”) http://bit.ly/efY46 # Guide to Field Blogging | Virtual Canuck (links to presentation on blogging metaphors…quite interesting) http://bit.ly/1VR1hB # Emerging tech Africa – Online course by Siemens at Wikiversity, addressing concerns & opportunities of tech in Africa http://bit.ly/43LXtF #…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-17

Aug 17, 2009

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africa, bloom, communication power, education, journal, manuel castells, oer, oer africa, open educational resources, publication, publishing, research, taxonomy, technology, tweets, twitter

educational-origami – Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy http://bit.ly/GMLtA # bjoern.brembs.blog: Why do we still publish scientific papers? http://bit.ly/5zv0X # Design and Technology Education: an International Journal http://bit.ly/kGVIV # Open educational resources in Africa http://bit.ly/2OcTm2 # A review of Manuel Castells “trilogy” of the information age http://bit.ly/gusW2 # Powered by Twitter Tools
Health OER Africa

Jul 29, 2009

in Education, Open access

africa, copyright, distance education, health oer, intellectual property, oer, open education resources, saide, South African Institute of Distance Education, workshop

Yesterday I attended the morning of a workshop around a Health OER Network for Africa that’s currently in development. It’s a project that’s sponsored by the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) and includes participants from all over the continent. The objectives of the workshop were to share lessons from the first phase of…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-29

Jun 29, 2009

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africa, arora, articles, box of tricks, collaboration, education, journal, soccer, technology, tweets, twitter, xkcd

Arora, yet another browser (http://bit.ly/11ww24). Instead of writing new browsers, why not contribute code to established projects? # I love xkcd http://bit.ly/7Qbv5 # Box of Tricks, website around using technology in education http://bit.ly/bpo6e # Collaborating with students on journal articles? Here’s a useful guideline for determining authorship http://bit.ly/M6k8 # Soccer in South Africa – some…