Learning with the Fang

a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online

Entries from April 2008

Aussie pride – EdNA and Edublogs

April 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Poor Canada – they have no EdNA! Stephen Downes understands online learning better than most people on the planet (combined) and quite rightly includes two Aussie icons in his list of best practice examples at the end of his excellent lecture:
Downes, Stephen (2008) Applications of Social and Collaborative Technologies in Education. Hyperlink [accessed April 12, [...]

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Tags: education

My new job at the University of Adelaide

April 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

It’s official,
For the first time since I left Microsoft three years ago, I have a ‘proper job’.
I’m writing this post from my new office at the University of Adelaide where I have been employed as ‘New Media Consultant’. The good news is that I have a solid position with a great team of people on [...]

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Tags: education

TWAM01 – The Week According to Me (Mike) episode 1

April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Some things of interest noticed in the first week of April, 2008.
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Web2.0 & Semantic Web – Impact on scientific publishing
Panel introductions, definitions of Web2.0 and Semantic Web
Open access publishing
Challenging IT leaders to Mashup, Twitter, Tag and Poke
General Education Requirements (20 years old, updated to include the notion of ‘W.O.V.E.’)
Social networking [...]

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Tags: education · twam

edna elearning insights podcast – number 6 with a bullet

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Browsing around the iTunes podcast directory in the education section I saw something that made me feel all proud and fatherly:

Well done KJ and the team at education.au!
Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Tags: edna · education · podcast

TreeBlue – image for TWAM podcast one

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

TreeBlue
Originally uploaded by Conor Lawless
Via CC search – free to use commercial + remix.
Keywords university + visual + expression
http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv&q=university+visual+expression&m=text
The small image does something interesting with the black outline that the larger ones doesnt.
Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Tags: twam