More traffic on your blog? You don’t need to write like Shakespeare or a  scientist if you want to have readers. What I’ve been preaching to my English students for years for making sentences or giving presentations is alo the key to atttract readers to your blog. Here is an excellent blog entry how to [...]

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More or less at the same time as Jochen Robes  has published his presentation on “Generation Y”  (see last blog entry) Steve Wheeler from Plymouth University has published his presentation on cooperative and collaborative learning. This is an excellent match to the raised questions on how the “Netgeneration” could possibly learn and how we as [...]

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Jochen Robes hat gerade seine Präsentation zu Generation Y ins Netz gestellt und macht sich darin Gedanken, ob wir neue Lernformen für diese neue Lernergeneration brauchen. In der Präsentation kommen alle namhaften Bildungstheoretiker von Wesch bis Schulmeister zu Wort und es geht auch dem Mythos der Digital Natives an den Kragen.  Die Rolle von Social [...]

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Here is an excellent solution by @betchaboy Chris who was most kind to share this with the community on the web. Twitter can become a major source for distraction, especially if you get a lot of new followers and getting notificatons in your email. If you want to decide whether to follow a person you [...]

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Although this takes another ten minutes from my due tasks I scheduled for today I cannot resist to blog this entry from “Mashable- the Social Media Guide”. Scott Belsky has interviewed and studied a number of networking people to find out how they can still sustain their productivity while at the same time being active [...]

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Herbsttagung 2009 der Kommission Medienpädagogik in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) via kwout Abstract It is generally accepted that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) changes our society from an industrial towards the information or knowledge society. These changes require that citizens in our time need to have the opportunity to acquire digital literacy and [...]

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Here is a sample Voicethread set up to explain an demonstrate the use of this awesome tool for collecting asynchronous statements in written or spoken form:

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… needs more than technology and reading and writing….. “This video is an exploration of the definition of literacy: more specifically, of what it means to be a literate person in the 21st Century. Both producers are reflective practitioners who have strong literacy backgrounds. As practising teachers they have a vested interest in this subject. [...]

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Guide to Twitter – The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter | Webdesigner Depot via kwout

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Voting is open for the 2009 Awards but apart from voting you will have most of the relevant blogs on one site to choose from for your PLE. The Edublog Awards via kwout .

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