How the social web came to be .. Part 2!

And here it is! Part 2 from Trebor…. see below for part 1.Again – Trebor, your timing is perfect! I’m in the midst of preparing a presentation for AITD this evening…. mashing up previous presentations, updating and re-framing…. but what strikes me particularly, is that much of the work I published in 2005 (based on…

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BlogTalk 2008 Announced

The 5th international BlogTalk conference on social software has been announced!BlogTalk 2008 Where: Cork, IrelandWhen: 3 – 4 March, 2008     "The conference is designed to maintain a sustainable dialog between developers, innovative academics and scholars who study social software, practitioners and administrators in corporate and educational settings, and other general members of the…

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How the social web came to be…

I’m currently writing a chapter for a text-book (yes, I know – traditional publishing.. but…) on Adult Teaching and Learning – my chapter is focused on e-Learning (surprise, surprise).In the process of a brief retrospective of e-Learning implementations across higher education, colleges (including community colleges) and the corporate context it’s extraordinary how focused the literature…

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Australian Blogging Conference

The Australian Blogging Conference When: Friday 28th September, 2007Where: Brisbane – QUT "This unconference, modelled on the successful BloggerCons in the United States, aims to redress this by providing a forum that will allow Australian bloggers to gather together and talk about blogging and the Australian blogosphere.  It aims to be a user-focused conference for…

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The Future of Adult Education in NSW

Free Lunch Time Lecture for Adult Learners Week Hon Verity Firth MP, Minister for Women, Minister for Science and Medical Research, Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Water (Environment) will deliver the Annual Dr Bob Frew Memorial Oration.[Minister for everything?]Her topic is:“The Future of Adult…

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More – No – no more Facebook!

Well – while I’ve been searching for the elusive Surf Control report quoted all over the Australian media and the world… there’s not a peep about on their own website… I scoured the media release sites and couldn’t find anything more than a brief press release statement – so no report to examine – now…

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10 Ways to a Killer Blog

I was cruising around SlideShare today – just looking for some engaging resources – and I came across this contribution from Robert and Maryam Scoble !OK – so it’s not brand new (10 months old) but it makes some good points and with a couple of hundred students all starting up their edublogs, I think…

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