The Preschool PLE

I’ve written this post as both a personal journal and roadmap, as well as to discuss our activities in use of educational and/or other technologies to facilitate the learning experiences of our 4-year old. My daughter (nearly 4 years old) has grown up with a father who is glued to technology for ridiculous amounts of time [...]

Digital Identity

Jim Groom (2008) threw out an interesting idea yesterday regarding the notion of digital identity and how it relates to student blogs, suggesting that a university might buy each student a one year domain license for a personal URL, rather than forcing student blogs under the umbrella of the institution’s domain.  I find this to [...]

The Wiki Commeth

I’ve been meaning to launch a wiki for quite some time and have finally got ’round to doing it. After going back and forth on a platform for ages I’ve finally settled on a fairly customised instance of Drupal that I’ve outfitted to feature many of the same sorts of wiki functionality people are [...]

SecondLife: 360 Degrees of Sydney Harbour

I just discovered an interesting use of SecondLife that I thought was worth documenting and sharing. The Australian presence in SL contains a series of teleport destinations depicting 360 degree views of a particular aspect of Circular Quay in Sydney. By selecting an option from the teleport menu you are transported to a room containing a [...]

Castles in the Cloud

This video is just brilliant. It uses the format made famous by the Common Craft Show (think “Wikis in Plain English“) to discuss networked learning and Connectivism. It’s 5 minutes long but really easy viewing. URL: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=e7oFzmr9_M4 Description: “The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes [...]