Bewarethegeek Goes Digital

I have now finished my learning contract assignment examining the differences between how science is taught online and traditionally. It can be found here, on a wiki. Overall I have found this project very interesting, eye-opening and educational. It is encouraging to see that there are a range of different and developing methods of teaching [...]

Earlier today I was having a brief discussion with mollybob about twitter vs. facebook and it seems we both have facebook friends who are anti-twitter. She wrote an interesting blog post about it which made me decide I’d throw a few of my own thoughts down here. At first I was surprised that we both [...]

This was another thought I had in the Saturday class for a blog post when the discussion about learning to write online came up. I again wrote a note to blog about it so here it is. I can’t remember who raised the point but someone said that the older you get the more information [...]

I was thinking about UTS Online as a learning environment. This was brought up in the last block class and I made a note to write a blog entry about it when I got around to it. Kinda realising I’m never gonna “get around to it” what with everything ever being due at the moment [...]

Having incorporated Today’s Meet as extensively as edutweet have into the group assignment, both as a means of communication for within our group and also as a back channel in last Saturday’s presentation, I started thinking about how it might be able to be used in other avenues of my life. Incidentally some friends and [...]

I’ve been thinking for the last couple of weeks ‘man, I really want to write about x’ or ‘oooh, I should blog about y’. Problem is the things I feel like blogging about are nothing to do with e-learning or even the least bit related to anything that could be related to e-learning so I [...]

This post is based around the paper by Weller et. al (2005) – Use of innovative technologies on an e-learning course. As an extension of the post I made yesterday, Weller et al. (2005) talk about blogging in their discussion of some of the new technologies being utilised in e-learning and he mentions group blogs, [...]