Learning with the Fang

Some things of interest noticed in the last week of July, 2008.
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Beth Kanter gives tips on social media in (nonprofit) organisations
The EdTechTalk crew interview key players in an innovative open course in connectivism
George Siemens reviews recently read papers providing short summaries in audio

Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the second week of July, 2008.
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Timo Hannay – Nature Publishing Group
Extract from a three part documentary series on web based publishing business models.

Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I have heard recently that might be relevant to Higher Education. My aim is to [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the second week of June, 2008.
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Mars Phoenix lander podcast (discovered via twitter)
USA Universities grapple with Peer to Peer file sharing legislation
Education.au ’s Mark Tranthim-Fryer talks about some services for Aussie educators

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Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I have heard [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the last week of May, 2008.
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Nature podcast reports on Platypus genome sequence paper (Frank Grutzner from the University of Adelaide was involved in this important work)
eBird – an example of ‘Citizen Science’ harnessing the web and general public
Michael Coghlan talks about all things new [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the first week of May, 2008.
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news on nanotechnology transistors, nanoassembly machines and single photons
Jean Claude Bradley (again), LISE08 talk on Second Life in the Chemistry Classroom (which inspired my playful discovery of some wonderful 3D molecular models from second life to a range of [...]

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