Social Software being adopted by the Australian Government

Today’s Australian IT covered this story on the adoption of social software technologies into the public services: "THE federal government may tap the vast pool of social resources behind blogs and websites such as Flickr and Wikipedia to boost its online information services.The Department of Finance’s lead information technology body, AGIMO, has begun experimenting with…

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Plogs – from Amazon

I’ve just logged on to Amazon and was told I now had a Plog! What’s a Plog????Well, having just read an article in the UK Times about Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom’s blog (he’s based in North Wales), I thought it might be something to do with police-blogging! (He is considering podcasts – which have been…

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Knowledge Tree # 10

The latest edition #10 of the Knowledge Tree has been published online.This edition is all about "Going Aural" – so it’s staying with the podcasting theme that seems to be the centre of attention at the moment! A variety of articles and contributors including: Dr Michael Thomas, Nagoya University: iPods in Education: Innovations in the…

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DREAM – Informal Learning & Digital Media

My abstract has been accepted for the DREAM – Informal Learning & Digital Media conference in Odense, Denmark 21 – 23 September, 2006.I’m also going to participate in the PhD workshop 20 September. Here’s my abstract:Title: Reflections on pedagogy: Reframing practice to foster informal learning with social software In educational contexts, as social software has…

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Podcasts, profcasts – research in Higher Ed

I spent an engaging afternoon at the University of Leicester on Tuesday (11th July,2006) with Gilly Salmon and her team, Ming Nie & Palitha Edirisingha – thanks for your time guys!!! For those of you who already know Gilly’s work with e-Moderating & e-Tivities, then you will be excited to find out what Gilly is…

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Members’ Musings: Productive Reflection at Work

The latest podcast is the recording from the Trainer’s Network meeting at UTS, 12th May – Productive Reflection at Work, presented by Professor Dave Boud. The audio of the presentation can be a little quiet in some areas as Dave moved away from the microphone, I have done my best to edit this – quality:…

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Heading to London…25th June

Well, today is the last day in the office – my physical office that is, for…5 weeks!!I’ve finished marking mounds of weblog assignments, results are submitted and now….it’s time to head north for a little sun (I know, it is London), lots of fun, quite a lot of writing (PhD thesis type), and catch up…

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Changing Worlds – slides from lecture

I’ve received a number of requests about recordings and / or slides from the Changing Worlds – Can Education Adapt to a net Generation – so – here is a link to the presentation (PDF format – 6.5mb). Lyn tells me a recording has been made and will be available soon on the UTS website…

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