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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Innovators and Adopters

August 31, 2007 – 2:29 pm

Interesting piece of research from Marie Jasinski for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. She cites some ‘chasms’ for embedding change.
1. Chasm between early adopters and mainstream - there are different reasons and expectations for these two groups to adopt new technologies. You need to address these to maintain the momentum.
2. A technology-pedagogy chasm - technology […]

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Networks and more networks

August 31, 2007 – 10:45 am

I asked Mark Pesce, who hosted the afternoon sessions at both the Jimmy Wales and danah boyd seminar to reflect on the Jimmy Wales seminar. Mark’s insights into the challenges and opportunities can be summarised into three areas of consideration
Control vs Chaos (Didn’t Maxwell Smart have a take on this!!)
Although Wikipedia may seemingly have a […]

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Networked Publics - Day 2 - education.au

August 8, 2007 – 11:38 am

danah speaks of a concept of networked publics. Online spaces that communities gather to communicate and collaborate. These communities come together because they are passionate about their specific areas of interest. In these communities, the participants know the norms for behaviour.
In the early days, public spaces, such as moderated usenets and listserves, where you could […]

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Who are your online friends?

August 6, 2007 – 11:24 am

danah boyd spoke at the education.au seminar today about the rise of social networks. danah spoke of the profiles that students develop and make public on their myspace site. She says this is equivalent to your contact list on the phone, that we often don’t make public. Kids today do, and this is important to […]

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