Learning with the Fang

Title: It’s upside down Miss Pat – Inverting Education
Edayz08 ‘Doing it with eeeeeeeez

Description of presentation
A brief tour of the Social Web followed by an exercise in thinking upside
down. Let’s imagine ways to use the subversive, disruptive powers of
the Read/Write web for good instead of evil.
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Audio recording of my talk
Demo material [audio mashup]
Video from PoV glasses [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the second first last week of November, 2008.
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“A series of tubes” podcast in which Richard Chirgwin interviews Prof Tanya Monro shortly after being awarded physical scientist of the year. Great interview that moves on to cover some of the basic science underpinning the work [...]

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Since my earliest tinkerings with the social web, I have thought the digital trails we write to the internet would make ideal data for anthropologists to study. My instincts regularly ‘give me feelings’ that the things I experience through my online networks are profound and perhaps mirror the inner workings of my brain or maybe [...]

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Join me at the first free public lecture from Adelaide’s latest thinker in residence Dr Genevieve Bell. Dr Bell is a kick arse speaker with many insights into the world of the bleeding obvious (which seems to be invisible to most of us geeks). If you think you know all there is to know about [...]

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Spent a very pleasant, engaging and thought provoking day at the University of Adelaide ‘Research Day‘ hosted by the school of agriculture, food and wine.

The highlight for me was the short, punchy ‘3 slide, 6 minute’ presentations by students. While some of the language was rather esoteric (to say the least), each and every [...]

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