Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Actually, it's not dead. It's alive and kicking. Mike talks about it here. We do not like to be offended. We do not like to be different. Ken talks about being different here. Yeah, but no.
I suppose we should be grown ups, as Ken suggests. I suppose we should protect ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
I'm currently preparing my lecture on Communication for first year Business Informatics students, and we touch upon Semiotics. Now, that's not an area that I have done a lot of research and reading or even contemplate much, except each semester when I prepare this lecture.
But I was thinking today, ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
I've often wondered what the buzz is with Web2.0 and learning. It's not like it's something so new as to be worthy of some of the overly hyped notions of what we do. Sure, Web2.0 signalled a shift to a read/write platform from the read-only web, but we had interactivity ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I came across Erica McWilliam's Unlearning how to teach ((McWilliam, Erica (2008) 'Unlearning how to teach', Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 45:3, 263 — 269)) the other day and just reading the abstract stirred my interest. The phrase meddler-in-the-middle launched itself at me like a beacon (not bacon) in ...
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