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Nothing new under the sun

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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 "In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. just about everything you encounter online has either been done before, or it's a synthesis (the social media term is 'mashup') of previously available content.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems

Learning Visions

Thursday, December 06, 2007 eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems The eLearning Guild hosted a webinar this afternoon featuring the winners of The eLearning DemoFest which took place at the DevLearn Conference & Expo on November 7, 2007. Sun added a lot of page-level restrictions. She saw the first two presenters.

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Dirty tricks

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Image from Wikimedia Commons It's the silly season. When everyone else is sunning themselves on the Costa, the poor admissions tutors (I know. A series of social media snipes followed from both sides, much like a conversation between a teacher refereeing two little boys caught in a school yard brawl. All's fair in love and war.

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Chance encounters

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It was wonderful weather, the sun was shining down, and even the infamous Wellington winds were nothing more than a gentle breeze. He had done work on the use of social media. And so the Saturday was spent wandering around the city, in and out of museums ( Te Papa is a must), and taking in the views along the sea front.

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The sun sets on Becta

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I see the opportunity here for a modern day version of Illich's 'Learning Webs' where we help each other more, and through the use of social media, it is emminently achievable. This work by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Thanks for what you have achieved Becta.

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60 years ago today

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Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. The web arrived, and we found ourselves beginning to network across the globe, forming the first social networks. 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.

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Selfie number 7

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She talked about how social media was making a huge impact on learning, and gave some great examples from her own professional practice. She was one of the founders of the Reform Symposium, a very popular 72 hour, follow the sun online event with facilitators on 3 separate continents. It was the start of many subsequent encounters.