link to wiki Sample, Taste, and Savor Some New Technologies A workshop for Maricopa Community College library staff January 13, 2005 at Chandler-Gilbert Community College By Tom Foster (Chandler-Gilbert Community College) and Alan Levine (MCLI) Objectives *…

Findings from Case Studies - NCVER full report in pdf p6 There’s a mixture of push and pull factors at play in why employers provide training (image sourced from pdf) p7 There’s a substantial effect of employer size on provision of structured training: Small…

link to pdf A Huge Learning Curve - TAFE practitioner’s ways of working with private enterprises Report for NCVER Authors: Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Julian Moore The key issue, then, is: In what ways and how effectively do public VET practitioners work…

BBC - The Feed Factory - Home “This site ‘the Feed Factory’ is an introduction to the RSS feeds that are available from bbc.co.uk. You can use the Feed Finder … to find some of our recommended feeds from across the bbc.co.uk site. “

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I’ve taken the idea of a feedbook, tested out various ways of implementing one in my context and come up with a working version . I came across the idea of a feedbook from Dave Cormier and it has also been influenced by various ideas from Leigh Blackall (…

link to blog post This post had stuck in my mind but I had not blogged it until today when I went looking for it again. In it, Pete roughs out how you could use TiddlyWiki on a USB drive for passing resources on to students, who could then annotate or edit…

link to webpage from We Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Part II By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson for Learning Circuits “Wikis make two assumptions. The first is that knowledge is transitory, not static. There’s always some new piece of information to add,…

Walking to work this morning I listened to the introductory audio to the course I am taking with George Siemens “Social Technologies Part 1″ . One of the things that stuck with me (partly because I’ve used this line as well) was the statement that these…

Learning activities for educational social software Authors are Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson Based around an ELGG install, but could be easily transferred to other tools, this list of activities for students to complete has a wide range. This could be a…

link to webpage from We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson for Learning Circuits “Knowledge management was the darling of the Information Age. But social networks are the focus of a new age, the Age of Connection. In this age,…

link to website from Stephen Downes: “MyGlu solves all that. Using code from Edu_RSS (which was way ahead of SuprGlu in this sort of thing, in case people have forgotten), MyGlu allows you to define your own list of feeds (including your own del.icio.us…

X4L Staff Development Resources from FERL this website includes the plans for what looks to be a solid workshop on social bookmarking and how that can be used with students. I think if I am to entice some use of the feedbook concept, presentations of this…

lik to website from Joshua Porter “From now on I’m going to call this idea the ‘Del.icio.us Lesson’. This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We’re seeing it more and more everyday in services…

I’ve put together my thoughts about the feedbook here [click thumbnail for larger image] UPDATE: A semi-working example is at this location . This version uses css for layout and suprglu to make the mixed feed on the left hand side. It’s more complex in the…

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ITS Center for Instructional Technology from the University of North Carolina… a useful checklist for teachers preparing lists for students of relevant websites. “* Who is the author/source? * What are the author’s reputation and qualifications in the…

NCVER - Workplace training practices in the residential aged care sector Title: Workplace training practices in the residential aged care sector Authors: Robin Booth, Sue Roy, Helen Jenkins, Berwyn Clayton, Sarah Sutcliffe “Personal care workers in…

Good and Bad Procrastination From Paul Graham “In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they’re working on), Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions: 1. What are the most…