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60 years ago today

Learning with e's

Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. The 00s was a time of more rapid change, where we witnessed the emergence of the social web, and mobile phones became smart. I have reached a milestone in my life. I don't feel any different physically, but in my mind it has given me cause to reflect. It all began a long time ago.

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eXtending the Web

Learning with e's

While I talked, as if by magic, the sun removed itself from Australia and New Zealand and reappeared outside my window. eXtending the Web by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 The audience were very knowledgeable, and asked some pertinent questions. Unported License.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. By the turn of the century, we saw the introduction of affordable, and extremely portable mobile phones, which evolved into smart phones - small, powerful computers that are multi-functional.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with e's

The illustrious history of teaching students at a distance has embraced each new technology as it appeared, from printed text, through telephone, radio and television, CDs and videos cassettes, to modern day, digital age technologies such as mobile phones, the internet and direct satellite broadcasting. Unported License.

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Content as curriculum?

Learning with e's

and was it really worth all those hours learning how to conjugate amo, amas, amat simply to be able to one day identify a strange fish, when all you need to do in the digital mobile age is Google it? I was taught in school that there are nine planets orbiting the sun. Is it Myanmar or Burma? Then she was right, now she is wrong.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Blog of the Week

Learning Visions

Sue Waters Mobile Technology in TAFE 5:11 PM Cammy Bean said. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Your blog is awesome and you know I love your sense of humor and willingness to just say things. 1:28 PM Sue Waterssaid. Thanks for all the warm fuzzies.

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Free L&D webinars for August 2018

Limestone Learning

Sure, it’s great to have time to enjoy the sun, but time off can also produce anxiety. Studio is Xyleme’s content development platform, with authoring tools and publishing outputs that help organizations create blended learning content in any format—mobile, web, print and more.

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