Tag: Web 2.0
A Tale of the Un-Xpert-ed : The Distributed Search Engine?
March 9th, 2011 at 10:03
When were developing Xpert the concept was that remote Xerte Online Toolkits installations could feed into a central repository using RSS. So we built a distributed collection of learning objects, and then built Xpert to bring this content together and allow for it to be searched. Until November of last year (and the creation of Xpert Labs), this [...]
Webinar on Emergent Learning: Tue 15 Feb
February 13th, 2011 at 09:02
Note change to start time of webinar The ELESIG community would like to invite you to a webinar on Emergent Learning and Learning Ecologies in Web 2.0 with Roy Williams, Dept. Mathematics, University of Portsmouth; Regina Karousou, Independent Educational Researcher; and Jenny Mackness, Independent Education Consultant, who will be discussing their paper, shortly to be published in The International [...]
Facebook the movie
October 7th, 2010 at 11:10
It is somewhat surprising, to me at least, that a movie about Facebook is currently number 1 in the US box office grossing $23 million in it’s first week. The reach of Facebook is without doubt immense, so perhaps there is a huge inbuilt market; but a drama about writing a piece of software!?
Wirearchy
September 30th, 2010 at 01:09
I recently stumbled across this video title ‘Are you ready for the 21st Century?’ and a new term (at least to me) of ‘wirearchy’. In essence I understand this to mean an interconnected society of respectful equals. No one would argue with that of course. The video is interesting and raises some discussion points around [...]