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Sample, Taste, and Savor Some New Technologies
A workshop for Maricopa Community College library staff January 13, 2005 at Chandler-Gilbert Community College
By Tom Foster (Chandler-Gilbert Community College) and Alan Levine (MCLI)
Objectives
* Become familiar with the purposes and uses of new web based technologies
* Explore and analyze […]

Findings from Case Studies - NCVER
full report in pdf
p6 There’s a mixture of push and pull factors at play in why employers provide training
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p7 There’s a substantial effect of employer size on provision of structured training: Small businesses (100) 97.5%
p 11 reasons for not using nationally recognised training include dissatisfaction […]

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A Huge Learning Curve - TAFE practitioner’s ways of working with private enterprises
Report for NCVER
Authors: Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Julian Moore
The key issue, then, is: In what ways and how effectively do public VET practitioners work with private enterprises? p12
Key to effective working in VET are:
- using the ‘right’ people
- understanding and […]

BBC - The Feed Factory - Home
“This site ‘the Feed Factory’ is an introduction to the RSS feeds that are available from bbc.co.uk. You can use the Feed Finder … to find some of our recommended feeds from across the bbc.co.uk site. “

I’ve taken the idea of a feedbook, tested out various ways of implementing one in my context and come up with a working version. I came across the idea of a feedbook from Dave Cormier and it has also been influenced by various ideas from Leigh Blackall (networked learning) and George Siemens (connectivism) and many […]

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four-to-six minute tutorials
Exploring the Interface Design Basics
New Features and Enhancements
Assessments Media Library
Group Manager Learning Modules
Assignments Discussions
Grade Book Selective Release

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This post had stuck in my mind but I had not blogged it until today when I went looking for it again. In it, Pete roughs out how you could use TiddlyWiki on a USB drive for passing resources on to students, who could then annotate or edit them as needed/ desired. […]

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from We Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Part II By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson for Learning Circuits
“Wikis make two assumptions. The first is that knowledge is transitory, not static. There’s always some new piece of information to add, some old piece to delete or revise. The second assumption is that the whole is greater than […]

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from We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson for Learning Circuits
“Knowledge management was the darling of the Information Age. But social networks are the focus of a new age, the Age of Connection. In this age, workers are ‘empowered only if they are successful at creating and maintaining personal social networks,’ say […]

Learning activities for educational social software
Authors are Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson
Based around an ELGG install, but could be easily transferred to other tools, this list of activities for students to complete has a wide range. This could be a good launching pad for teachers who are unsure of how to tackle this for the […]

Walking to work this morning I listened to the introductory audio to the course I am taking with George Siemens “Social Technologies Part 1″. One of the things that stuck with me (partly because I’ve used this line as well) was the statement that these tools have been around for quite some time, but it’s […]

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from Stephen Downes:
“MyGlu solves all that. Using code from Edu_RSS (which was way ahead of SuprGlu in this sort of thing, in case people have forgotten), MyGlu allows you to define your own list of feeds (including your own del.icio.us feeds), merge them into a single feed, and place the results on your […]

X4L Staff Development Resources
from FERL this website includes the plans for what looks to be a solid workshop on social bookmarking and how that can be used with students. I think if I am to entice some use of the feedbook concept, presentations of this ilk would be very useful. Must come back and […]

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from Joshua Porter “From now on I’m going to call this idea the ‘Del.icio.us Lesson’. This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We’re seeing it more and more everyday in services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, and is an interesting aspect of networked applications. Even […]

I’ve put together my thoughts about the feedbook here [click thumbnail for larger image]
UPDATE:
A semi-working example is at this location. This version uses css for layout and suprglu to make the mixed feed on the left hand side.
It’s more complex in the building than I would like but fulfilling the end purpose better than […]