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Monthly Archives: August 2007

the ‘vast machine’

August 15, 2007 – 8:28 pm

Well this is sort of a culmination of a few interesting things I have read recently that’s worth some sort of reflection and perhaps commentary. Anyway, one of the ways that I like to relax is reading fiction and I recently picked up and read ‘The Traveller’ by John Twelve Hawks. I tend […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, conspiracy, facebook, marketing | Comments (2)

iTunes U

August 8, 2007 – 2:20 pm

iTunes U has been around for some time now offering its services to universities. It is great to see a number of iTunes U resources being made available to the public.
Here are a few examples indicating in a small way the breadth of stuff that is available:

MIT - OpenCourseWare and more
Broome Community College - […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, iTunes U | Comments (0)

Another call by teachers to shut social networking sites down

August 3, 2007 – 8:35 am

It seems these types of calls are still appearing quite regularly. This BBC article reports on a Professional Association of Teachers conference in the UK. There is a desire here not just to ban sites such as YouTube in schools, but to shut them down. Locally we have seen a number of […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, social networking, YouTube | Comments (3)