Dec
4
JISC YouTube Channel
December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hussar! Now JISCness will be available through a dedicated channel on YouTube. Of course it won’t all be there immediately but thanks to the Peeblemeister it will all start appearing shortly and then we can sort of out by themes or whatever to make it more sensible…
Dec
4
Online Educa 08 - Roger Larsen
December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Roger Larsen, Fronter, Norway
Learning Together
Frankly an unwelcome and unnecessary advert for far too long at the start of his presentation, this seems quite an insult to the previous speakers who were trying to present new and/or interesting issues. I appreciate that the conference needs sponsors but they should not be mixed with more […]
Dec
4
Online Educa 08- Norbert Bolz
December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Prof Norbert Bolz, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
From Knowledge Management to Identity Management
Bolz outlined five key concepts:
Serious Play
It is becoming harder to distinguish between tools and toys and younger people are best able to exploit this. Bolz feels that this deals with the issue of ‘paradise of work’ or how it […]
Dec
4
Online Educa 08- Michael Wesch
December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Dr Michael Wesch, Asst Prof of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University, USA
The Crisis of Significance and the Future of Education
Clearly the fact that the hall was packed with people sitting on the floor means that many were here to hear Michael Wesch – an outstanding speaker – engaging, interesting and relevant. Ok maybe what he […]
Dec
4
Online Educa 08 - Joseph Pierre Ndiay
December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Joseph Pierre Ndiaye, Permanent Sec to Minister of Education in Senegal – host of Online Africa 20009Presentation in French with subtitlesSenegal faces a range of problems but education is seen as a vital motor for economic development. Senegal is now devoting 40 % of resources (?) towards education. They feel that they need to consider […]
Jul
18
A Portal to Media Literacy
July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
There is a brilliant video (although rather long at over an hour) from the exemplary Prof Wesch from the Kansas State University Digital Ethnography programme, available like all else via YouTube as well
A wonderful summary of what is going on and a great expose of how new technologies are being used
He also mentions the portal/wiki […]
May
2
Oh Yes! That’s How It Is
May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KWiuhDGCVs
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May
2
Libraries of the Future
May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Well JISC’s first proper campaign is off the blocks - Libraries of the Future was launched at the JISC Conference and was swiftly followed up with a special supplement appearing on the Guardian. As part of the deal the Guardian provide a dedicated micro-site with the supplement available in a web version although this […]
Apr
17
Adieu Birmingham, Salut Edinburgh!
April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
Well the JISC Conference 2008 seemed to go pretty well all told - the huge amounts of work put in by lots of people over months and months all over in a few hours… Well thats no longer quite true. The effort put into the online side has already extended both the reach and span […]
Apr
11
JISC Conference 2008
April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here we go - just entering the mild panic stage prior to next weeks JISC conference on 15 April at the International Conferennce Centre in Birmingham. This year we had to close the books quite early as we filled all the sessions quickly - now have over 850 people coming which sounds a bit like […]
