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Archive for April, 2010

I’ve given a snapshot of Week 1 of the Flickr project, Through global lenses. This has been cross-posted from the blog Through global lenses. Post by post I intend to give an overview of what was posted: students’ contributions to the project  – photos, descriptive writing, comments and conversation – one week at a time. [...]

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Contributed by Darren Kuropatwa in Flickr Group Great quotes about learning and change (pool). I’ve been collaborating with Marie Coleman (Florida) and Sinikka Laakio-Whybrow (Finland) through Flickr to bring our students together in a photo-journal project. Yesterday I interviewed some of the students for feedback and, once I figure out how to edit these avi [...]

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Jason Chmura on Change.org has written a letter to Marc Andreesen (Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Ning.com) and Jason Rosenthal (CEO, Ning.com) with a petition to keep Ning free for educational purposes. We, the nonprofit and educational community, urge you to make an exception in your plans to discontinue free Ning services. Since your founding in [...]

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This morning I read on Twitter that Ning would no longer be free anymore. Blink. Can this be true? TechCrunch announced the news. Steve Hargadon was quick to send off a post; I was grateful. Twitter has contributed various links, including a place to go to share how people are using nings in education. A [...]

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How is it that a conference about technology, namely the ACEC 2010, the national biennial conference of the Australian Council for Computers in Education, wasn’t chiefly about technology? That’s a good thing in case you’re wondering. So, for me, at least, the conference was about the opportunities to meet new people, share ideas and make [...]

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@ggrosseck shares some excellent links on Twitter and this is one of them. I agree with @jennyluca who commented that this presentation is just as relevant to educators. The humour doesn’t detract from the truths expressed; I think it’s very effective. I like the way it addresses people’s attitudes to social media and in a [...]

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