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Free online seminar with G. Siemens & D. Cormier: Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning

July 2nd, 2009 | Published in education, events, web-20

AACE University Seminars - Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning

The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) announces a free online Seminar on Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning.

AACE Global U
Social Media Seminar Series

Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning

When:
July 7, 2009, and monthly every 2nd Tuesday, 3 PM Eastern US (Worldclock)
Where & Cost:
Online at: http://aace.org/connect/AACE & No Fee
Faculty:
George Siemens - Associate Director, Learning Technologies Centre, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
David Cormier - Web Projects Lead, Univ. of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Be there!

Graphic reports

July 1st, 2009 | Published in media

Nicholas Felton IS 31 YEARS OLD. feltroneight2008
LIVES IN NEW YORK CITY.
WORKS PROFESSIONALLY AS THE OFFICE OF FELTRON.COM.
SPENDS HIS SPARE TIME DEVELOPING DAYTUM.

And publishes a graphic report on his life which is well worth seeing and putting on one’s wall. Here: http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2008_annual_report/P1/

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Jul 1, 2009

Nicholas Felton IS 31 YEARS OLD.
LIVES IN NEW YORK CITY.
WORKS PROFESSIONALLY AS THE OFFICE OF FELTRON.COM.
SPENDS HIS SPARE TIME DEVELOPING DAYTUM.
And publishes a graphic report on his life which is well worth seeing and putting on one’s wall. Here: http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2008_annual_report/P1/

Jul 1, 2009

Online learning more effective than face-to-face learning

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Digizen published a recent study sponsored by the US Department of Education which concludes that online learning is more effective than face to face “traditional” learning.
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that [...]

Jun 19, 2009

links for 2009-06-18

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Getting Real
Brilliant guide to novel ways to write Web applications
(tags: tecweb programming web applications)

Larry Johnson's Stuff :::::: VUVOX
Beautiful presentation by Larry Johnson (NMC's CEO) on the seven metatrends identified by the Horizon Project as the most impacting technologies in education.
(tags: horizon report Technology Education slideshow)

Co-Twitter
Collaborative Tweet: many post tweets from same Twitter account.
(tags: twitter collaboration)

Jun 18, 2009

Technology appropriation by the people

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Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history | Video on TED.com
Clay Shirky talks about the new social media landscape in this TED conference of May 2009. He develops a powerful concept which is very useful when analyzing innovation. He says “tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring“, so that it is only [...]

Jun 18, 2009

su.pr updating social web services

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Exclusive First Look: SU.PR - Stumble Upon’s New Traffic BuilderSays Timothy Ferriss (author of the improbable but nice book “The 4-hour Workweek”).
Prior to SU.PR (pronounced “super”), I had to use ping.fm for updating Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn at the same time, bit.ly for basic analytics like click-through, scattered tools for viewing retweets, and nothing allowed me to schedule [...]

Jun 18, 2009

Opera Unite: a server in every computer

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Opera “Reinvents the Web” with Unite, Makes Every Computer a Server
A Web browser is a participant of the bigger Web scene, but Opera just opened up a whole new world of possibilities with its newset Opera Unite product, which turns your browser into a server.
This means any computer can host applications and “serve” them over [...]