Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
This wiki course always gets me thinking. We have such a diversity of students that some thrown themselves almost bodily into working on the wiki, while others seem to be much slower to take up the challenge. This makes it a challenge for us to shape tutorials in a manner ...
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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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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I have to say, it seems we have some very keen students this semester. We got their wiki logins set up by about 3:30, notified them by 3:45 and the first one had logged in by 3:55. Nearly 10 % of them have already logged in and it's only 2 ...
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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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