We are constantly promoting the use of social networking services to our teaching staff at CQUni as potential learning and teaching tools. The educational technology landscape is abuzz with talk about reflective blogs, collaborative wikis and so on. Of the roughly 139 papers presented at ASCILITE 2008 in Melbourne, 22 (~ 16%) were specifically related... Continue Reading →
Eduspeak – The native tongue of the curriculum designer
I was watching a presentation by a colleague titled The Ps Framework: Mapping the landscape for the PLEs@CQUni project. One of the presenters, Jocene Vallack read aloud a post she had made to her weblog on the topic. The post was in relation to management and control of technology and how PLEs can empower the... Continue Reading →
Learning Designs – making them explicit
While reading through a paper on Cloudworks as presented at ASCILITE 2008 in Melbourne, I came across the following quote: "Traditionally [learning] design has been an implicit process, how do we shift to a process of design that is more explicit and hence shareable?" This is a very interesting observation and a good question. Lets... Continue Reading →
Social Networking for Learning Designers – Cloudworks
I recently attended the ASCILITE 2008 conference in Melbourne Australia. I attended a presentation discussing the notion of social networking for learning designers and a social networking application called Cloudworks. The idea was quite simple - apply the concept of social networking to facilitate the sharing of ideas around learning designs. Cloudworks is an initiative... Continue Reading →
Snapzilla, Blogging, RSS, and Second Life
Last month, I developed a Second Life Workshop and came across an interesting web 2.0 problem. The workshop is comprised of many small layered activities that participants complete as they build up the knowledge and skills in using Second Life. I wanted the participants to be able to document their exploits as they worked through... Continue Reading →
Second Life for education – the minor divide
I have been asked to prepare a workshop for students enrolled in an E-Learning management course which provides an introduction to Second Life. The objective is to provide students with a basic level of competency in navigating SL such that they can explore and discover some of its educational possibilities. This relates to a larger... Continue Reading →
Second Life – Bringing it to the educators
Background I am working on a research project where we are trying to work out how CQ University can make use of 3D immersive environments to improve learning experiences for students. Second Life has emerged as a major player in the world of immersive 3D environments and has a considerable following in terms of application... Continue Reading →
Damo's World 