Archive for May, 2007

Future of Education - snowclones and ‘cliches’

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I'm in ur nowlige, spukin' ur mind. This post is my first shot at developing the ideas that I want to talk about at the futures of education conference. I've spent bunches of my time recently writing and talking about communities and digital ecologies, and I thought I would do something ...

Building Ecologies - making room for communities and networks

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I had a really fun time hanging with folks at the CADE/AMTEC conference last week. The main thrust of most of the conversations was about the building of communities and I was fortunate enough to be talking to Stephen Downes, George Siemens and Terry Anderson. I rounded out a great ...

CADE/AMTEC - day 2 - Best Online Course Ever?

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Very different kind of post from the conference today. This was from a panel presentation this morning and it was so good that i thought i would try and record it all. The notes are still a little sketchy... hope it's readable :) italics for dave's thoughts Vicky, the first speaker ...

CADE/AMTEC - day 1

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Well... the wireless stuff sorted itself out, due, I believe, to heroic efforts of the tech staff at the university of manitoba. Turns out it was one of those situations where a series of very odd things happened and a couple of very smart geeks got us back online... thanks ...

CADE/AMTEC - Connections in the global village

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Long time no post. I've been over to the UK to talk with the fine folks at JISC, one week back home and am now at the CADE/AMTEC conference. That stands for "Canadian association of distance Education/Association for media and technology in Education." i got in last night and am ...