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Edupunk Manifesto?

Noticed, just yesterday, that a number of unusual suspects of some online educational circles were using Edupunk as a way to identify a major movement toward openness in educational material. This...

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Visualizing Touch Devices in Education

Took me a while before I watched this concept video about iPhone use on campus. Connected: The Movie – Abilene Christian University Sure, it’s a bit campy. Sure, some features aren’t available on the...

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The Issue Is Respect

As a creative generalist, I don’t tend to emphasize expert status too much, but I do see advantages in complementarity between people who act in different spheres of social life. As we say in French,...

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Blogging Academe

LibriVox founder and Montreal geek Hugh McGuire recently posted a blog entry in which he gave a series of nine arguments for academics to blog: Why Academics Should Blog Hugh’s post reminded me of one...

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Student Engagement: The Gym Analogy (Updated: Credited)

Heard about this recently and probably heard it before. It’s striking me more now than before, for some reason. [Update: I heard about this analogy through Peace Studies scholar Laurie Lamoureux...

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Actively Reading: "Teach Naked" sans PowerPoint

Some Diigo comments on a Chronicle piece on moving lectures out of the classroom. (Or, if you ask the piece’s author and some commenters, on PowerPoint as a source of boredom.) I’d like to transform...

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Teaching Models: A Response on "Teaching Naked"

Teaching Anthropology: Teaching Naked: Another one of those nothing new here movements. [Had to split my response into several comments because of Blogger's character limit. Thought I might as well...

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No Office Export in Keynote/Numbers for iPad?

To be honest, I’m getting even more excited about the iPad. Not that we get that much more info about it, but: It’s now clear that it isn’t vapourware. AT&T’s 3G Data Plans management look even...

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Open Letter: UnivCafé Testimonial

Here’s a slightly edited version of a message I sent about University of the Streets Café. I realize that my comments about it may sound strange for people who haven’t participated in one of their...

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Future of Learning Content

If indeed Apple plans to announce not just more affordable textbook options for students, but also more interactive, immersive ebook experiences… Forecasting next week’s Apple education event (Dan...

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Free from Freelance

For my Happiness Anniversary, this year, I got myself a brand new job. Ok, it was two days late and a job isn’t really a gift. But it’s the thought that counts. We’ll see how things go, but the...

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Moodle and Collaborative Learning

Something I just posted on a forum about the Moodle course management system. Using Moodle: Thinking Through Groups Here are some comments and observations about the “Groups” interface (where an...

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Concordia and Open Access Self-Archiving

Fascinating talk: News@Concordia: Stevan Harnad, Maximizing Concordia University’s Research Impact, April 25 Reactions were varied but some of us were able to have a very good chat after the talk. For...

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Free, Open, Online: Rethinking Learning Materials Online (Slidecast)

Now that Slideshare has a “slidecast” feature, we can synchronise slides with audio to create audiovisual presentation Case in point, here is the “slidecast” of a presentation I gave during a session...

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Learning Systems Wishlist

In a blogpost, Learning Systems ’08 host Elliott Masie lists 12 features learning management systems could/should have. Elliott Masie’s Learning TRENDS – Learning TRENDS – 12 Wishes for Our LMS and...

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Educational Touch: Handhelds in Schools

The more I think about it, the more Touch-style handhelds seem to make sense in educational and academic contexts. They don’t need to be made by Apple. But Apple’s devices are inspiring in this...

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Edupunk Manifesto?

Noticed, just yesterday, that a number of unusual suspects of some online educational circles were using Edupunk as a way to identify a major movement toward openness in educational material. This...

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