No educational or social media topic today – no blog entry on new web 2.0 tool. I have been following these brave and courageous guys from Iran twittering atrocities and hope and fear , saying good-bye to their followers before being arrested and still full of hope and willing to continue their fight for more [...]

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For those of us who have been struggling hard to implement Moodle in schools this article comes as a confirmation of our own experience. If it cannot made clear to the teachers that VLEs are not just another data organization and communication tool we will not succeed in getting VLEs implemented in modern classroom practice. [...]

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“About this talk While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. About Clay Shirky Shirky, a prescient voice on the [...]

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Ein neues Buch zu Twitter, das sich offenbar auf sehr sachliche Weise mit dem Twitter Hype und der praktischen Verwendung auseinandersetzt. Danke an Ellen Trude (e_trude) fürs Twittern dieses Links. Für mich ist Twitter eine Lernplattform. Ich folge interessanten Leuten – Wissenschaftlern, Technikern, Journalisten, Professoren, Leuten aus der Verlagsbranche – und lerne durch sie jeden [...]

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For all of you you have been suffering from the same symptoms today: having a day off, lots of good intentions to get loads of work done- raining outside – a deadline in sight…. and being distracted by lots of other people from your network who keep twittering and posting lots of useful and entertaining [...]

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Do IWBs automatically bring interaction to your classroom or aren’t they just another tool the benefit of which depends completely on how it is used? I am convinced that this is the case as is with LMS and all media – it is not the tool that makes better and interactive learning but the scenario [...]

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…but quite enthusiastic video on a most progressive school…  as it is it might be frightening to most headmasters and colleagues right now.. but could still trigger a few moves to the introduction of media and new thinking???  Anyway enjoy it! Thanks to Markus Ebner who twittered this! Will we ever get any near to [...]

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In Kalifornien will Schwarzenegger mal wieder Geschichte schreiben und eine Vorreiterposition einnehmen. Nach der Einführung vernünftiger Schulernährung – wo mit der “zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe” Strategie sowohl die kalifornischen Gemüsebauern als auch die Gesundheitsbehörden erfreut wurden, startet der Terminator jetzt eine “Travellite + save taxpayers’ money Initiative, die die Abschaffung der traditionellen Schulbücher im [...]

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Despairwear – cool stuff!

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Durch den McGuhlin.net Newsletter bin ich auf einen Blog von Tom Kuhlmann aufmerksam geworden, der sich mit der Erstellung von eLearning Szenarien befasst. Für besonders nachdenkenswert halte ich den Blogeintrag zum Push oder Pull Learning. Are Your E-Learning Courses Pushed or Pulled? – The Rapid eLearning Blog via kwout Hier kontrastiert er die klassische Push [...]

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