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Monthly Archives: April 2013
All Inclusive has its place
In the process of getting my head round the place of openness I’ve been contemplating pessimistic warnings on the demise and disaggregation of HE. We’ve been encouraged over this MOOC to consider technology as a disruptor and, as examples, consider … Continue reading
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Open Digital Literacies
Digital literacies help us thrive in an digital world. What are those skills and attributes that are essential to thrive in an open online world? Here’s my list: Open to new approaches and applications – ICT Literacy Confident to select, … Continue reading
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Thriving in a Digital World
I got a bit bogged down reading Beetham (2010), but managed to focus a bit by doing a map. Downloadable from http://www.xmind.net/m/AaRK/ Much more reading to be done on this, but it’s good to get the background clear. Beetham, H. (2010) … Continue reading
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Week6/Activity 22: Hangouts and other Live sessions
I propose our friend the live video chat as a technology to sit alongside other staples of blogs, RSS, Twitter, Social Networks, links/embeds and VLEs. By live video chat I mean tools such as Hangouts (+ hangouts on air), Blackboard … Continue reading
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Week 5: of viruses and knotweed
Sorry Week 5, I’ve not done you justice. I’ve been floored with a chest infection and trying to do anything on the study line was just a bit too hard. I’ve dipped in and out of blogs, tweets, watched a … Continue reading
Week 4 Reflection: Outed as a fan of MOOCs
Some ponderings on the differences between “formal” online learning modules I have been on so far, and my MOOC experiences to date. This is of-course drawn only from my rather limited experience of both! I added the video (11/5) … Continue reading
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Initial thoughts on PLNs
This seems a bit too worryingly straightforward. Here’s my definition: Your Personal Learning Network is the distributed and present network of people that you connect and collaborate with with the aim of developing and sharing knowledge, learning and expertise. Teams … Continue reading
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Activity 14 – a mooch around two MOOCs
As I wanted a leisurely mooch around the MOOCS I have written short blog posts on two courses, before moving to the questions posed by this activity. A quick look at DS106 (Digital Storytelling) Revisiting Computer Science with Udacity (CS253 Web Development) DS106 … Continue reading
Revisiting Computer Science with Udacity
To go along with my DS106 exploration I signed up to Udacity “Web Development CS253”. This is one of 22 courses that I counted on the course catalogue. I had a browse around, watched a few short videos interspersed with … Continue reading
A quick look at DS106
I had a look at Digital Storytelling http://ds106.us via it’s website and a few papers. Here’s some blurb, before I try and do a comparison with something a little more staid! The course started off as a face to face … Continue reading
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