I have enrolled for project M to be able to see how it works from the inside but am still an outsider as I did not find a group to work with. Many groups chose their sides and competed for World Power using Media strategies to convince different onlookers to vote for them (through mobile … Read more
Project M is the result of a joint effort of 6 innovative organisations from three EU member states to produce an online game with learning focused on global change, media literacy and critical thinking. What is interesting is how the whole game is structured on role play and uses Free and Open Source Software, like … Read more
This was a two-hour, hands-on session given by Trevor Ettenborough that centered around a webquest that asks teachers to explore blogs and news aggregators, using blogs in their classroom, news aggregators, and how news aggregators can help save time. Wonderful material with many interesting links and ideas to be used by teacher trainers and teachers … Read more
This morning Venny (Taiwan) invited me through YM to join him in a video-conference room at Uvault. I plugged my cam and mic on and off I went into cyberspace. I landed smoothly in a room with 6 screens, a chat space and a login feature where I had to write my name and choose … Read more
Small Technologies Loosely Joined is the ” wiki-blog-chat fest” which will be presented at the New Media Consortium Summer Conference 2004 on June 17, 2004, 4:15 – 5:30 PM Pacific Coast Time. You can find your local time via World Clock: http://pieces-time.notlong.com/ The organizers, Alan Levine, Brian Lamb and D’Arcy Norman, are asking education oriented … Read more
People in the course have been split in smaller groups. I am together with about 5 others in Group A and we have started to experiment with the wiki version you can find in Moodle. Susan Burg (Florence) suggested a digital role-play story so we are interacting in a small group in the wiki environment. … Read more