This week cyber pioneer Howard Rheingold was the keynote speaker for education.au’s final seminar for 2007 whihc focussed on the development of virtual communities. Podcasts and presentations will be added to the educationau seminar site as they become available.
Currently available on the site
Howard’s keynote presentation
Slides and Speech notes from David Cummins
Howard Rheingold was interviewed […]
One of the ideas that crossed my mind yesterday as I was writing my blog about the Creating and Connecting report, was that it focussed on online students and parents. Nowhere did I see an estimate of the %age of the population who might not have any online access.
It was also ‘telling’ (in a quirky […]
The podcasts of the educationau seminar in Brisbane on social networking featuring danah boyd are now available at http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/
The podcasts now available are (in reverse order to the way you will see them on the blog)
danah boyd keynote - part 1
http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/page/2/
(Click older posts at the bottom of the first page)
danah boyd keynote - part […]
A new public edna Group has been launched
Generation MySpace - Social Networking and its impact on students and education
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/danahboyd
This group has been created to complement the second seminar in the education.au 2007 seminar series - Generation MySpace - Social Networking and its impact on students and education.
The keynote speaker for the seminar, which will be […]
I attended the Jimmy Wales seminar in Perth on Tuesday and enjoyed the networking with old and new friends as well as the intellectual stimulation of listening to Jimmy, other presenters, a good panel, and then workshopping ideas around our table.
I can’t cover everything here but there are a few points I want to make […]
Join in the discussion about the phenomenon of Wikipedia and the use of wikis in educational contexts.
http://groups.edna.edu.au/educationau_challenging is an edna Group that has been set up to enable discussion related to the use of wikis in education.This is a public group, accessible without login, but in order to contribute to the discussion, you will need […]
I will try to make my blog today focus on more practical examples of wikis being used, and also perhaps some links to tools you might use.
A while back Graham Taylor pointed me to an example where he set up a “choose your own adventure” scenario: It was a dark and stormy night
Many of us have […]
Wikipedia itself defines a wiki as “a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Most wiki sites including wikipedia […]
I think we should distinguish between two things in this current debate. This posting deals with the first.
One issue centres around Wikipedia. A number of the education departments and individual schools have banned wikipedia for a variety of reasons. Teachers have expressed concern over the authoritativeness of its content and the fact that supposedly ‘anyone’ […]
