Monthly Archives: April 2010

Week 1: take a photo that represents you

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 … Continue reading

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Thinking about evaluation

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 … Continue reading

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Please keep Ning free in education!

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 … Continue reading

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What the! Ning isn’t free anymore?

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, … Continue reading

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ACEC2010 My slant

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 … Continue reading

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Social media for lawyers (and regular people)

@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 … Continue reading

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