Tag: oer

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-17

Oct 17, 2011

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academic dishonesty, blind students, Complexity, copyright, critical thinking, flipboard, hiking, hoerikwaggo, ipad, lions head, oer, open educational resources, papert, powerpoint, presentations, table mountain, tablets, visually impaired students, zite

@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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-11

Jul 11, 2011

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apture, blogging, coi, community of inquiry, creative commons, google plus, hospital apps, lecturing, oer, social presence, uct, wordpress, zen mode

Is More Zen, Less Plus The Way to Go? http://ow.ly/1uqHOf. “Zen mode” in WordPress helps you to focus on writing # Google Plus Feature Request: Automatic Circles http://ow.ly/1uqH4n # Learning with ‘e’s: Seven reasons teachers should blog http://bit.ly/pVV9A8 # Reasons teachers don’t blog http://t.co/VKLcLIS # OER@UCT | Excellent video explaining Creative Commons http://bit.ly/qzgJFI # Sage…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-31

Jan 31, 2011

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abstract, Amsterdam, cape town, congress, creative commons, Department of Education, Fund Open Educational Resources, Internet Social anthropology, mad chair, oer, open access, open education resources, research, RT, sasp, tedxcapetown, twitter, wcpt, writing retreat

@damianrice Not sure what you mean 🙂 # @EranEyal no problem, talk sounds interesting, u know the URL? Would like to attend if possible # @gavdavis Thanks man, now we just have to get funding so that everyone can go 🙂 # 8 out of 9 abstracts submitted from UWC physio dept accepted for presentation…
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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-30

Aug 30, 2010

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feedback, human rights, nrf funding, oer, students, The Sci-Fi Guide, twitter, uct, uwc physio, workshop, writing, youtube

Students’ Messages to Teachers. It’s important to connect with students on a personal level http://bit.ly/9Cv46i # Feedback: Negative, Positive or Both? http://bit.ly/cPFOwk # How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Professional Development? First wait for the cycle to complete http://bit.ly/a1saPO # OER at UCT: From Project to Portfolio http://bit.ly/b54hQ3 # The Sci-Fi Guide to Dissertation…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-02

Aug 2, 2010

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art of community, assessment, BP, British Library, buddypress, communities of practice, cop, dept social network, diagrams, digital habitats, digital literacy, digital natives, e-learning, Europe, failure recovery, feedback, Google, Google Docs, journals, lectures, mobile literacies, mobile phones, net generation, networked learning, oer, open learning, peer review, reading, RT, rubric, social media, south africa, Tony Bates, twitter, UCT Centre for Educational Technology, uruguay, wordpress

A list of e-Learning Journals « Tony Bates http://bit.ly/bfs0Ej # Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities » Putting our diagrams to work http://bit.ly/acKbwI # @davecormier I like 4 🙂 in reply to davecormier # RT @malinkaiva: Using VoiceThread to Build Student Engagement: http://tinyurl.com/2clrtho # RT @johnnigelcook: “Google Gen “do not possess the critical & analytical…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28

Jun 28, 2010

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android, bafana bafana, blind watchmaker, cent, chrome extensions, collaborative keynote, creative commons, daemon, daniel suarez, diaspora, digital cop, digital storytelling, distributed social network, e-portfolios, engaging students, eric mazur, Flora Sandes, formspring.me, Google, Google Docs, google moderator, google scholar, hootsuite, human rights, ICT, Jake Shimabukuro, Knysna, linux, lms, lurkers, medical educaiton, ocr, oer, online learning, Online Learning May Slightly Hurt Student Performance, open knowledge, optical character recognition, p2pu, plagiarism, reading, reflective blogging, reflective tool, richard dawkins, RT, scribd, social networking project looks, social networks, twitter, webicina, wikis, world cup

The SA Fallacy: Open Knowledge Foundation Gets It Wrong | iterating toward openness http://ht.ly/23xnD # Reading “The blind watchmaker”, Dawkins does for evolution what Sagan did for physics # Summary of Eric Mazur’s presentation on using technology to engage students http://ht.ly/23oMz # The darn drop outs and lurkers. Suggestions to address the issue ay P2PU…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21

Jun 21, 2010

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american internet, Animation, author, backchannel, blooms digital taxonomy, BP, cars writing model, cent, Co-operative, collaborative learning, e-learning, facebook, Fast Company, FIFA, gilly salmon, Google, Google Docs, Google Earth, google search story, Harvard, http, Internet stars, journals, learning management system, lms, meego, mendeley, michael wesch, new media, oer, online world, open educational resources, otter trail, peer review, personal learning environment, player, ple, plearn, presentation, privacy, publication, reading, research, RT, Running stable, sajp, Salford, slideshare, social learning roles, social media, south africa, stephen downes, steve wheeler, swot analysis, tagxedo, twitter, uct, vygotsky poster, wordpress 3.0, world cup, world cup 2010, youtube

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 «…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29

Mar 29, 2010

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assessment, citation, cross platform, Cross-platform reference manager, earth hour, facegbook, Google, google wave, last lecture, learning, learning habits, linux, literacy, mendeley, mozilla contacts, Mozilla Labs, net generation, oer, open accreditation, paperpile, podcasting, Professor, randy pausch, research methods, RT, screenr, social media, social network, students, telemedicine, twitter, Web Illiteracy, wikipedia

Screenr – Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way, includes posting to Twitter http://bit.ly/9t6uLh # Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Contacts in the Browser http://bit.ly/bsQnr9 # RT @davidworth: RT @brad_bett: High-Tech Cheating Abounds, & Professors Bear Some Blame: Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/bOuBCA # RT @cristinacost: …Am I right to assume we need…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22

Feb 22, 2010

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cet, chromium, clinical wisdom, cognician, curriculum alignment, diigo, educause review, ethics, facebook, filesharing, Google, Google Docs, isp1, journals, kde, kjots, kubuntu, lessig, lucid, medical education, michael wesch, mobile, ocw, oer, open education, p2pu, pedagogy, peer to peer learning, physiopedia, ple, race, research, saahe 2010, safri, siemens, social networks, teaching, technology enhanced teaching, uct, web apps, wikipedia, xkcd, youtube

Google and Wikipedia — Separated at Birth? http://tinyurl.com/yzxj3az # @patrickkayton I liked the cartoon look 🙂 # YouTube – Students Helping Students. A video by Michael Wesch http://bit.ly/cE7aDL # I know it’s ridiculously early, but I’m already looking forward to SAAHE ’10 at Wits in July this year http://bit.ly/9CGOA6 # @Sallykenyon12 Not on it at…
Opencourseware Consortium panel discussion at UWC

Feb 18, 2010

in Conference, Education, Open access

Andy Lane, Archbishop, Chancellor, derek keats, Desmond Tutu, ethics, internet superstars, lecturer, Neil Butcher, OCW Consortium, oer, oer africa, open university, Opencourseware Consortium, p2pu, peer 2 peer university, Peer University, philip schmidt, south africa, United Kingdom, Vice-Chancellor, Wits University

Last Friday I was fortunate enough to attend 2 panel discussions on the use of OER in higher education. It was a bit of an occasion as one of the panels included a few board members of the Opencourseware Consortium (on a side note, UWC is a member of the OCW Consortium). This post is…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15

Feb 15, 2010

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accreditation, android, backchannel, buddypress, cape town, clifton, community of practice, copyright, crap detection, curriculum, degree, educational reform, engagement, free content, freedom, george siemens, goats, higher education, howard rheingold, iphone, jisc, learning technology, lessig, managing information, microblogging, microecop, mobile learning, network, nexus one, ocw, oer, open courseware consortium, open educational resources, p2pu, pbl, peer to peer university, personal learning environments, ple, pop quizz, presentations, problem based learning, twitter, university of the western cape, uwc, web 3.0, wordpress mu

@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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01

Feb 1, 2010

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adsl, facebook, ipad, oer, open educational resources, privacy, telkom

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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-16

Nov 16, 2009

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biomimicry, cellphones in health, lapdesk, micro-investment, mobile health, mobile learning, oer, open educational resources, steve barnett, TED, tedx, tedxjb, tedxjhb

Just finished at #tedxjohannesburg, now the real work begins, researching and integrating great ideas into teaching practice # Malan Joubert (http://ow.ly/Cu5I) on changing health in SA with mobile tech, important ideas with real practical solutions #tedxjohannesburg # Claire Janisch on biomimicry (http://ow.ly/CtXr) at #tedxjohannesburg, beautiful ideas, she is going to change the world # PRof…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-09

Nov 9, 2009

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copyright, creative commons, higher education, irrodl, jim groom, lessig, new literacy, oer, open educational resources, open government, open source science, openness, p2p, personal learning environment, ple, sherpa, twitter

“A domain of one%u2019s own”, Jim Groom discusses online / digital identity – http://j.mp/4jmNmD # Lessig calls for copyright rebellion from academics and scientists http://j.mp/2y4H2D # Times Higher Education – Laws of the academic jungle http://j.mp/3UuYPY # Times Higher Education – ‘There%u2019s no better job’ than a university professor http://j.mp/3UuYPY # Clive Thompson on the…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-02

Nov 2, 2009

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apa, apa style blog, apartheid, downes, ebm, education, evidence based medicine, google wave, laan, learning as a network, learnstreaming, oer, open educational resources, portofino, research, social constructivism, student feedback, technology in education, wiley, writing

Guidelines for writing a mini-dissertation http://bit.ly/21vUTU # After reading this, I won’t ever go to Portofino restaurant in Cape Town, RT if you believe in good customer service http://bit.ly/o3eZD # 25 Predictions for the University of the Future – from @johannescronje http://bit.ly/QJ7mM # Online Learning: More Than Technical Savvy. A look at factors other than…
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
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-03

Aug 3, 2009

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copyright, danah boyd, disney, elsevier, Firefox, google wave, librarian, Library Journal, medical errors, oer, open educational resources, peter tittenberger, posterous, publication, research, silentale, social networks, tweets, twitter, youtube

RT @cshirky: NY Daily News on hospital cover-ups of medical errors: http://bit.ly/KTdHV. Scary… # First Look: Firefox 3.7’s New Design http://bit.ly/mrDKD # Posterous – Do we really need another blogging platform? Maybe… http://bit.ly/Fwdag # First impressions of Google Wave | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com http://bit.ly/33j4d0 # Does anyone know anything about Silentale? It looks…
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 2009-06-22

Jun 22, 2009

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anatomy, death, oer, open educational resources, pedagogy, tweets, twitter, video

Becoming a relational academic http://bit.ly/6IEsA # Academic Earth – The Human Brain and Muscular System, Great video lecture on anatomy (36 lectures available) http://bit.ly/mNMTp # Fascinating lectures on the nature of death, from Open Yale Courses. Plenty of other great content here http://bit.ly/E5w25 # Scholarly Teaching: A Model. Article by Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin and Prosser…