Learning with the Fang

Some things of interest noticed in the last week of April, 2008.

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• Research on Research - interesting program described by Susan Metros
• Open notebook science - introduction by the creator of usefulchem wiki
• MIT’s Hal Abelson talks about his long history with the intellectual commons
• Johnny Lee urges researchers like him to embrace online video distribution

TreeBlue Originally uploaded by Conor Lawless

Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I have heard recently that might be relevant to Higher Education. My aim is to stimulate discussion around the impact of the read/write web on research and teaching & learning.

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Connor Lawless

Metros, Susan E (2008) Challenging IT Leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: New IT Strategies for a Digital Society. Via:
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=43977 [Accessed April 07, 2008].

Bradley, Jean-Claude, Open Notebook Science ACS March07 (JCB) on Odeo. Available at:
http://odeo.com/audio/10972353/view [Accessed April 23, 2008].

Abelson, Hal, Hal Abelson on Supporting Our Intellectual Commons. Available at:
http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/podcasts/ [Accessed April 23, 2008].

Lee, Johnny, TED | Talks | Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote (video).
Available at: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/245 [Accessed April 23, 2008].

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