Archive for April, 2007

Web 2.0 Conference - University of Moncton NB, Canada

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Not entirely sure what and when I'll be presenting here... Just that I will be. More later.

CADE National Conference, Winnipeg, Canada

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Applications and Theory of Educational Social Software Abstract In this panel discussion we overview the emerging pedagogy and applications of social software for use in distance and blended education contexts. The panel begins (Terry Anderson) with an overview of social software highlighting its capacity to enhance social presence ...

Emerge Community of Practice - London UK

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Initial meetings with the cool folks from Emerge. Looking forward to meeting lots of folks I've only ever skyped with. The University of Westminster

JISC - Next Generation Environments Conference - Birmingham UK.

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

The Next Generation Environments Conference will explore the role of new technologies and next generation environments in higher education. The conference is aimed at senior policy-makers and influencers in the area of learning, teaching and research within higher education institutions. The Development, Deployment and Take-up of ...

Disposable Learning Objects

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

I've been spending much of the last eight months working on two, interconnected projects. The one, the Virtual Research Enviornment, is an attempt to create an open source cocktail of software, grounded by an institutional repository, that can integrate the research interests or a given researcher with their educational and ...

Degree is Social Networking - debate in Will’s comments

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Well... this is an interesting conversation. It seems that there is some debate over whether there should be a 'university degree' in social computing. Quite a good debate over there with many of the standard position being taken on both sides. In short, I kinda agree with parts of what most ...

Embedding Flash into Moodle (or whatever)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

At the risk of giving my readers whiplash from the topic changes... I saw on twitter (who says twitter doesn't work) that bud is looking for a flash embed into moodle solution. This is something I swore I would post just to try and save the pain and misery ...