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Do social networks have a positive impact on education?

January 17, 2008 – 9:23 am

This is the topic of the Economist.com Oxford style debate currently taking place. It is the third of a series of debates conducted at http://www.economist.com/debate/ on education and connected issues. The first two issues: Technology in Education, and University Recruiting, are no longer active but the third on Social Networking has just begun. The debate moderator […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, Australian education, professional development, professional learning, learning environments, networking, community building, social networking, PLE, personal learning environments | Comments (6)

The changing dynamics of learning

January 11, 2008 – 8:37 am

One of the nice things about being back at work at this time of the year in Australia, before schools, Unis and TAFEs resume, is that I get to look a bit more closely at some of the information coming across my desk, read those incoming blogs a bit more assiduously, and even follow up some […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, teaching and learning, informal learning, professional learning, learning environments, networking, community building, social networking, future schooling | Comments (0)

Digital footprint and edna

January 9, 2008 – 11:20 am

edna (education Network Australia), EdNA Online as it was then, launched Single Sign On (SSO) In December 2005. The basic idea behind SSO was to bring together in one place all times when an individual might need to log into edna, and to attach that to one unique login id and password.
The SSO service when […]

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How your digital footprint is personalised

January 8, 2008 – 9:28 am

I’m still thinking my way through the Pew/Internet research Digital Footprints (pdf). The report discusses how the advent of Web2.0 has changed the nature of personal information. In the past most of the searchable information related to web pages, published papers, and email postings. Now our public comments on blogs and discussion groups are archived, […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, blogs, social networking, web 2.0, myedna, digital footprint | Comments (0)

Defining your digital footprint

January 7, 2008 – 9:29 am

A recent article from Pew/Internet about online identity management called Digital Footprints (pdf) really hits the mark for me. Their research found that while internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint, few actually monitor their online presence with great regularity.
Where we have been often lingers long after the project, the conference, or […]

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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 […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, social networking, edna workshops, collaboration, ednaworkshops08 | Comments (1)

New Year reflections

January 3, 2008 – 10:03 am

The New Year always seems to lend itself to casting your mind back over the past 12 months and thinking about what you’ve achieved and what you need to do better.
What I’ve been thinking about is how my online life has changed, how much more time I’m making for it, and reflecting on what perhaps […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, virtual environments, community building, social networking | Comments (0)

Making Online Communities work

December 29, 2007 – 10:28 am

This is a topic I’ve already written about and given workshops on. But all my writings and presentations so far have really been based on the assumption that the community has been set up by someone who has a purpose in mind and who will be a driving force behind the community. Most communities that […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, community development, networking, community building, social networking | Comments (6)

Feedback coming in about me.edu.au

December 27, 2007 – 1:11 pm

Australian educators playing around with the beta release of http://me.edu.au are impressed with its capabilities and potential. By Christmas Eve over 1500 people had begun setting up their pages. Nick Lothian, one of the team behind the project has advised in his educationau blog of a couple of extra capabilities including the ability to […]

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Dealing with those multiple personas

December 22, 2007 – 10:28 am

I have just read a posting by Pru Mitchell that was a response to my earlier posting about multiple personas. Pru is concerned with managing multiple edna personas. She, like many of us, has at least two edna logins that perform different functions. They are based on different email addresses. But with the advent of […]

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