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Facilitating Communities of Practice in the Network Era

May 19, 2010

in Learning, Social media

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Two days ago I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to attend a workshop at UCT facilitated by Nancy White (1), who co-wrote Digital habitats: stewarding technology for communities (2) with Etienne Wenger and John David Smith. Presentation slides from the workshop can be downloaded / viewed here. Unfortunately, I could only stay for…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-17

Aug 17, 2009

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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
Manuel Castells lecture

Aug 13, 2009

in Education

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I was fortunate to be able to attend a lecture on campus today, given by Manuel Castells, the renowned sociologist and one of the foremost scholars of communication in the information age. His talk was inspirational and quite personal, dealing with his own journey which was a treat, since apparently he rarely talks about much…

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Facilitating Communities of Practice in the Network Era

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-17

Manuel Castells lecture