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Daily Bookmarks 12/04/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Introduction to Creative Commons explaining how CC licenses benefit content creators who want to share their work with the world. YouTube - A Shared Culture. Includes an overview of the differences between licenses. tags : creativecommons , copyright , community. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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The survival of Higher Education (4): 5 key objectives

Learning with e's

The novelty value and opacity of technologies often prevent users from ‘seeing through them’, beyond the shiny toy with the buttons and lights, to a tool that is useful because it does something previous tools could not do (John and Wheeler, 2008). Universities must offer better and more sustainable support to academics. and Wheeler, S.

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Five things

Learning with e's

Appropriate training, support services and dialogue will invariably overcome many of these issues (John and Wheeler, 2008). For teachers to adopt new technologies, they must first see the applications and understand the benefits (as well as the limitations) of the tool. and Wheeler, S. London: Routledge. London: The MIT Press.

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All together now

Learning with e's

Today''s book recommendation is the fourth in the series: Clay Shirky (2008) Here Comes Everybody. Photo by Steve Wheeler All together now by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 For previous reviews start here. London: Penguin. Unported License.

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When the dam breaks.

Learning with e's

Once I have analysed the data, I am usually able to arrive at some conclusions and write some form of report, which is likely to include a set of recommendations that I hope will benefit my community of practice. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's: Teaching with Twitter

Learning with e's

Most would agree that Twitter was one of the social networking phenomena of 2008, and has enjoyed exponential growth in popularity. Ever since I first began to use Twitter I have been thinking about how to harness the potential of microblogging for the benefits of my own students, and have tried out several ideas to exploit it already.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

We know of some of the benefits and the limitations it brings to education and training. Retrieved 14 April, 2008 from: [link] Kamel Boulos, M. Image source The changing web by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 But there are still many questions to be answered. Maramba, I. and Wheeler, S.