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Overcoming writer's block
For your reviewing pleasure, I give you lolresearch!
The wiki way: It's way
Alisun and LuckAbstackt ( Read more... ) -
Remix culture vs the Cut and Paste Collective
The more I think about the ways in which students (not all but many) approach learning and hence assignments, the more I wonder about the so-called remix culture. The Remix culture is what students are being exposed to. Snippets from here there and everywhere, linking to this and that. The remix culture is kinda central to the whole notion of ( Read more... ) -
transferability of skills
Over in academics_anon, there's an interesting discussion which touched on the transferability of skills (thanks freixenet. I think this is one of the key points that I really need to think about in what I'm trying to do with Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. One of the issues that I'm finding in (re)reading Vygotsky is that a lot of it deals specifically with ( Read more... ) -
I've been a slack blogger
It seems that every December, I fall into the same trap of trying to prevent yet another dismal xmas where passive aggressive behaviour is the norm. I know it's not, but in my attempts to prevent it, I become a grinch (and perhaps a bit passive aggressive myself). I haven't put my finger on why it happens, but there's something about family get- ( Read more... ) -
More about the wiki
What did I expect when I set out to get students to use the wiki? I dont think I really expected much. The minimum they had to do was create two pages and write at least 1500 words in the wiki (this for 40% of their grade). The two pages consisted on one technical page and one social/business application of technology page. I figured this would ( Read more... ) -
reflections of teaching with wikis
Im going to start posting some of my reflections from teaching with wikis based on my experience through the last semester. I probably should have been doing this as I went, but, I'm terribly slack at times.
I suppose I should start from the begining.
Preparing to teach with wikisThe hardest part of getting ready for this semester was getting an ( Read more... ) -
Testing, Testing
I've been playing with my new mac now I'm on holidays. I've installed a heap of widgets but the ljpost one would only hold one login at a time. So I modified the code, but only sufficiently to enable a second instance of ljpost to be handled by the dashboard ( Read more... ) -
Oh ... My ... Gosh
I haven't been around much lately. Semester is finally over and assessment of students' participation in the wiki is about to start. The first student has submitted their journal. I was expecting maybe 5 pages. They needed to create at least 2-3 pages in the wiki ( Read more... ) -
This is seriously borked!
In a class of their own: teaching tailored for the guyshttp://url.edna.edu.au/5t4RRead more... )