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James Morrison in Tokyo: Technology Enhanced Active Learning: Jan. 10, 2010

January 10, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm – Tokyo, Japan, Showa Women's University

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Reid Cornwell added a discussion

Signal and Noise: The Power of n-Dimensional Query and Education

This paper argues that fundamental problems in the way that knowledge is represented and accessed on the Internet prevent the Internet from achieving its full, positive potential in education. Among these fundamental problems are intrinsic deficienc…

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pears replied to Denise Easton's discussion 'REALLY Cool Tools & Sites - Please add them as you find them'

Hi Denise .. I have used Scratch software and according to my honest review i really didn't like it much only because of low performance and not that rich quality graphics. That could be only me coz i am a rich graphics lover. 2ndly Google knol is h…

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Reid Cornwell replied to Reid Cornwell's discussion 'Network Literacy: A 21st Century, Core, Enabling Skill - Howard Rheingold'

My point is there are "skills" that must be developed in order to use libraries or computers effectively. If you learn them formally or informally makes no difference.

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Claude Almansi replied to Denise Easton's discussion 'REALLY Cool Tools & Sites - Please add them as you find them'

You knol is great: concise, in clear simple language, and as you say, not a good fit for Wikipedia, which is not about "how to". And that might become an interesting line in knols: so far, knols have only been touted as more academically acceptable…

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Plone Glenn replied to Denise Easton's discussion 'REALLY Cool Tools & Sites - Please add them as you find them'

If you like scratch, then take a look at inform which is the most popular tool from the Interactive Fiction community.

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Plone Glenn replied to Denise Easton's discussion 'REALLY Cool Tools & Sites - Please add them as you find them'

I've published a knol called Get Your Business Web Site Up and Running. Not sure if knol is going to hit the mainstream anytime soon but it was easy to set up and use. I'd recommend it if you need something light weight and available for guest acces…

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David Richardson replied to David Richardson's discussion 'What can you - and can't you - use SL to teach?' in the group Second Life Pedagogy

Interesting post! I work as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and I'm experiencing a similar phenomenon to the one you're describing: students don't mind making mistakes because it was their avatar that 'screwed up', not them! Stephen Kra…

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Tadeusz Lemańczyk commented on Kevin Ryan's event 'James Morrison in Tokyo: Technology Enhanced Active Learning: Jan. 10, 2010'

Naturally I will be attending the event at http://innovate-ideagora.ning.com/ . :-)

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Tadeusz Lemańczyk is attending Kevin Ryan's event

James Morrison in Tokyo: Technology Enhanced Active Learning: Jan. 10, 2010 at Tokyo, Japan, Showa Women's University

January 10, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm

Facilitating Technology-Enhanced Active Learning Strategies on Your Campus JALT (CALL SIG. Tokyo Chapter, West Tokyo Chapter) are happy to announce an event in Tokyo on Sunday, January 10, 2010 from 2-4PM at Showa Women’s University near Sangenjaya…

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James James Morrison in Tokyo: Technology Enhanced Active Learning: Jan. 10, 2010 at Tokyo, Japan, Showa Women's University

January 10, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm

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Therese Langevin Frech replied to David Richardson's discussion 'What can you - and can't you - use SL to teach?' in the group Second Life Pedagogy

I recently attended a metanomics presentation about therapy in virtual worlds. They specifically discussed drug and alcohol treatment for adolescents behind a firewall. What I thought was most interesting was the way that the anonymity provided by u…

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Alice Bedard-Voorhees replied to David Richardson's discussion 'What can you - and can't you - use SL to teach?' in the group Second Life Pedagogy

Hi All, I can think of an applied skill class like pottery or badminton as challenging. There are a few ways to search out exisiting instructional opportunities in SL: Enter the course topic + second life in Google, use the search or showcase tabs…

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Len Rosen added a blog post

I have been writing a blog focused on 21st century technology

I would welcome visitors from Ideagora to the blog site to comment on what I write. The rationale for the blog is described in the first posting. I am hoping to turn this into both a print and ebook and welcome all Ideagora members to visit, suggest…

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michael j. trout replied to Reid Cornwell's discussion 'Network Literacy: A 21st Century, Core, Enabling Skill - Howard Rheingold'

But does it have to be... I mean does learning to use the Internet have to be like learning to use a library... I don't think it has to.

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michael j. trout added a discussion

eSingularity update

We have started our own Ning entitled eSingularity it's comming... We have updated our web site www.EDUIT.org and started the eSingularity movement www.eSingularity.org I have been selected to attend Ted Global 2010 and hoping I'll have the opport…

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Virgo d replied to Denise Easton's discussion 'REALLY Cool Tools & Sites - Please add them as you find them'

I read the article and i found it quite interesting tools are also good it mite help me a lot. regards Virgo rip dvd to ipod

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