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How collaborative is your workplace/organisation?

April 22, 2008 – 10:26 am

Stephen Downes alerted me to an interesting ANECDOTE white paper by Shawn Callahan, Mark Schenk and Nancy White titled Building a Collaborative Workplace. The basic premise is that both innovation and production demands collaboration. The pace of the work that we do means that no one person has all the skills, all the knowledge. […]

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What are you doing online?

March 31, 2008 – 2:23 pm

Check the video The Voices of Learning at http://www.learning2008.com/
One of the speakers, Don Tapscott, says, when asked what they were doing online, people were given 4 choices:

Working
Learning
Collaborating
or having fun?

The people being asked the question said the choices weren’t real - because they were all one and the same thing.
So what do you when you are […]

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Like minds across the world

February 21, 2008 – 8:03 am

It is always exciting when you meet up with a like mind. Today Brian Mclaughlin who runs an education blog attached to Jim Lehrer’s News Hour left a comment on my blog, so I wandered over and looked at what his blog talks about. Called the NewsHour Teacher Center the “mission statement” says This blog […]

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Howard Rheingold on Collaboration

February 18, 2008 – 9:54 am

My TED newsletter on Friday brought with it a link to the latest offering in talks on its theme The Rise of Collaboration. Howard Rheingold talks about new collaboration, participatory media and collective action — how Wikipedia, and other projects, are really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. He […]

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Emerging technologies or practices

January 31, 2008 – 4:11 pm

The Horizon Report 2008 edition, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, describes six emerging technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. Also highlighted are a set of challenges and trends that will influence […]

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oz-teachers icon to become a teenager

January 10, 2008 – 7:51 am

In August 1995 Lindy McKeown, on behalf of the oz-TeacherNet Project at Queensland University of Technology, announced a new service for Australian teachers - an email discussion list to be called oz-teachers.
The oz-teachers list has been established in response to numerous requests for a national list to collect Australian teachers in one ‘place’ and to […]

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Where are we going in 2008 - edna workshops

January 4, 2008 – 9:06 am

This morning I was pointed by an article in the OLDaily (Stephen Downes) to Gary Woodill’s blog titled Ten Learning Technologies to Transform Training in 2008. Gary lists the technologies that he will attempt to make the focus of his 2008 workshops and webinars. The first that he lists is Technologies of collaboration. Gary thinks […]

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