Tag: wikis

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26

Jul 26, 2010

in Digest

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 2010-06-28

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…
Sharing my article for open peer review

Jun 14, 2010

in Open access, Research

academic writing, author, collaborative learning, Google, open, peer review, physiotherapy, research, south africa, south african society of physiotherapy, wikis, yeats

I’m interested in how changes in the internet are forcing changes onto institutions that haven’t traditionally responded well to change. One group that’s finding the transition especially hard are the publishers, especially the academic publishers. A little while ago I wrote an open letter to the South African Society of Physiotherapy, asking them to move…
Wikipedia as a credible source?

Mar 19, 2010

in Social media, Technology

academic credibility, content creation, learning, online credibility, online resource, open source software development, wikipedia, wikis

I was recently asked about my views on the credibility of Wikipedia as an academic resource, and soon realised that the question isn’t an easy one to answer. Since Wikipedia was launched in 2001, academics have generally decided that it’s suspicious at best, and many responded to students’ use of it with blanket bans on…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-10

Aug 10, 2009

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collaborative learning, grading, guidelines, kde, marble, nice, social networking, tweets, twitter, wikis

Grading practices http://tinyurl.com/kmaftd via http://www.diigo.com/~michaelrowe # Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities — Campus Technology http://bit.ly/VnmhB # Skills developed through social networks that lead to collaborative learning http://www.diigo.com/06rad # 3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction — Campus Technology http://bit.ly/biP0c # New NICE guidelines on LBP : RachaelLowe (interesting post on the applicability of…
Digital course readers

May 23, 2009

in Education, Technology

biomed central, course readers, creative commons, digital, ijahsp, michael wesch, pubmed, semantic web, study materials, wikis, youtube

When I took over the modules I currently teach, I inherited several folders containing the course readers for each subject, which had been “developed” over many years. They consisted mainly of a selection of photocopied or typed pages, loosely related, inconsistently formatted, poorly referenced, often duplicated and impossible to search. When students needed to find…
Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 6

May 7, 2009

in Education, Open access, Technology

africa, America, assessment, control, course, educators, Garin Fons Using, mozilla, MozOpenEdCourse, notes, open, open education, pedagogy, teacher, teaching, technology, wikis

I know that this is all out of sync but the audio for sessions 4 and 5 aren’t up yet and I haven’t had a chance to go through the slideshows yet. Today’s session was about the actual practice of teaching, using “open” as a framework. Here are my notes: Session 6 – Open pedagogy…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

Apr 12, 2009

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auscultation, blogging, curriculum, elections, ethics, flutter, microlectures, MozOpenEdCourse, nanoblogging, open university, podcasts, politics, satire, social media studies, tweets, twitter, wikis

UK students study blogging, wikis, podcasts as part of curriculum http://bit.ly/8pmw7. Wish that was included at university level in SA # The lead up to elections in South Africa have started having an effect at our universities…and it’s not good http://bit.ly/i3BH # UK university offers Masters degree in social media. Course too simplistic. £4500 to…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05

Apr 5, 2009

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cclearn, mozilla, MozOpenEdCourse, open education, p2pu, pedagogy, peer to peer university, physiopedia, physiospot, tweets, twitter, wikis

@sharingnicely for what it’s worth, my vote goes to #mozopened in reply to sharingnicely # @reflectivelrnr Sometimes, they find you 🙂 in reply to reflectivelrnr # Just went through Alltop Twitterati (http://bit.ly/CoiAC). Are the people with the most to say the least interesting to follow? # Very excited to be participating in Mozilla open education…
Open research

Mar 27, 2009

in Open access, Research, Technology

blogs, collaboration, Google, Google Docs, internet connection, Jean-Claude Bradley, jon udell, methodology, open notebook science, open research, open science, peer review, publication, researcher, secrecy, social networks, social tools, wikis

I’ve been thinking about the concept of open research since listening to Jon Udell’s interview with Jean-Claude Bradley on his open notebook science project. The idea is similar to the open approach to writing software in that the process is transparent and open to scrutiny by anyone. This could have important implications for the soundness…
SAAHE conference 2009

Mar 19, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

blogs, cape town, education, Google Docs, journal, peer review, physiotherapy, saahe, search engines, social media, South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town, students, twitter, undergraduate research groups, wikis

I’ve noticed that I’m getting a few hits from search engines with people searching for “SAAHE”, so I can only assume that with the conference coming up in a few months time, interest is on the rise. The SAAHE conference is an annual meeting of the South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town…
Technology in the classroom: can we make it work?

Nov 17, 2008

in Learning, Technology

bad teacher, deep learning, e-learning, education, facebook, healthcare, internet, internet access, laptops, rss, students, technology, wikis

I’ve been trying to think how to use technology to enhance both my teaching and my students’ learning and it’s proving more difficult than I’d initially thought. I like to think that laptops and internet access in every classroom give students real-time access to related content while they engage in meaningful discussion, but this will…