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Snack attack learning?

7 April, 2008 – 10:00 am

The trend towards short dramas for delivery via mobile phone is a great opportunity for educators. If people, particularly the young, are looking to commercial ISPs for 4 minute doses of drama, what’s to say that they won’t be interested in a 4 minute refresher on their biology prac, their French verbs, or the lyrics […]

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ipods - not just about music

17 September, 2007 – 2:07 pm

I love to see how technology can be quickly adapted for useful purposes for students. A great example of this is at the ANU’s Academic Skills and Learning Centre where podcasts are being used to provide students with all kinds of valuable instruction - not related specifically to their courses, but to issues associated with surviving and […]

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Let’s go to the future. Let’s go!

17 October, 2006 – 3:51 pm

Fortune telling is big business - whether it’s tarot, tea leaves or a tingling feeling in your toes.  An American firm, Pew Internet, is trying to do just that in predicting the future of the internet in 2020.  They conducted a non-random sample of 742 people and asked them to respond to a range of scenarios and […]

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