AiMiA – The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association – is running their 14th annual awards: The AIMIA Awards are the longest running and most prestigious awards in Australia’s Digital Media Industry. Celebrating the very best in digital content innovation across all genres and interactive media platforms, the AIMIA Awards recognise the industry’s finest…
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Authentic assessment tasks
As the end of semester approaches, last classes this week, and final projects and assignments are being submitted, a recurring question needs to be addressed: Why am I being inundated with emails and advertisements for software tools that detect plagiarism? Why aren’t we designing authentic assessment tasks that require the individual to develop their own…
Read MoreLMS Survey Results
The results from the October LTUG survye on LMS are in… and the findings are…. well – summarised below: Q. What do you think of LMS? (Respondents could select more than one response – in case you’re adding up percentages!)47.6% They’re OK but limited31% Loved them28.6% Use them becuase they have toAnd the most revealing…
Read MoreWalk to Work Day
Tomorrow is Walk to Work Day in Australia (Friday 5th October)… Problem is – I was going to work from home tomorrow… Guess I’d better put my runners back on and participate!I wonder if it counts that I walk to work every day anyway? And if you happen to get the walking bug…. why not join…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreMore – 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…
Read More10 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…
Read MoreFacebook – a A$5 billion waste of time
Here we go again!The media has previously inflamed panic about internet surfing, blogging and Googling – all related to time wasting at work… and now, fasten your seat belts… here comes the social networking scare mongering! According to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald Facebook may be costing Australian businesses A$5 billion a year…
Read MoreApec – forced public holiday in Sydney
Now – I’m not against public holidays but… forced public holidays.. and only for people working in the Sydney CBD and certain council areas (read: most of Sydney).I visited the APEC site to find out some more: "Why is there a public holiday on Friday 7 September?The holiday will greatly assist in the safe movement…
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"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." – Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951 Powered by Qumana
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