November 2009
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Learning Technologies 2009
There was a lot to be learned from the Learning Technologies conference (eg. Colin Warren’s excellent summary), however my favourite learning came from the momentum and connectedness of the overall conference. Nancy White in her talk quoted Mike Sefang (@fang on twitter) that the the difference between a network and a community is that with a community you notice when someone is missing. This...
October 2009
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The Group E-portfolio
hungry squirrel by Steffe on flickr
One of the new ideas for me out of the VET E-portfolio Showcase was the group e-portfolio. In particular the use of the tool Ning for this purpose (although Mahara also offers a group e-portfolio).
My first impression of Ning as an e-portfolio was that it would never work. Nings work as online groups, usually closed (private or by invitation) where all...