This is an article from China Daily which as I see it, is used to present the China perspective to foreigners as a balance to the western media. In this article a Chinese professor criticises a Human Rights Watch report about surveillance of internet use by the government. In it, he outlines what I think is the general perspective within China regarding the internet, in that it is allowing for greater expression and freedoms but within boundaries. Continue reading
Author Archives: EDC MOOC Activity 681 - 700
E-learning and Digital Cultures: trečioji savaitė
Kursas jau įpusėjo. Trečioji savaitė man buvo kaip sūpuoklės. Ji prasidėjo žinute, po kurios norėjosi nuleisti rankas, net galvojau, gal mesti tą #edcmooc reikalą. Continue reading
Time for an artistic break – being human in the #edcMOOC
Week 3 of our MOOC moves us to the topic of “Being Human”. Phew, this is the bit that I think will help to ground me a little more (or perhaps spin me out…). And I’m excited as there’s a competition in the MOOC to experiment with visual ways of representing our understanding of the [… Continue reading
#EDCMOOC Week 2 Metaphors slow the revolution
I’m only skimming the surface of this course and mostly posting reflections behind schedule. I feel it’s more formal than the ETMOOC but probably more conducive to indepth discussion. However, less accommodating for me as I’ve only got a moment or 2 here and there to read something (when kids are asleep and no spring festival appointments allow) and the videos never seem to play – probably related to the fact that I’m using a VPN to access them. Continue reading
#ETMOOC VoiceThread – Conversations in the cloud
VoiceThread – Conversations in the cloud.
Found in #EDCMOOC – this could be a great tool for asychronous storytelling, personalising, communicating etc
The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same #EDCMOOC
I hate to state the obvious but the human mind is amazing. Since I started taking the E-Learning and Digital Cultures course (EDCMOOC) and the now suspended Fundamentals of Online Learning: Planning and Application course, I see applicable tools, articles and metaphors for topics raised in the EDCMOOC or the Facebook learning community that formed by the FOEMOOC “refugees.”
Artifact from Twitter Chat with Hashtags #edcmchat & #edcmooc
This is a static version of a Tagxedo word cloud made after the #edcmchat on Saturday, February 2, 2013.
Click here to view the interactive version. Continue reading
Notes on Technology is the Answer: What was the Question? #edcmooc
Notes on the speech by John Daniel Technology is the Answer: What was the Question?
Access, Quality and costs are the 3 key issues in Education. Continue reading
Dystopia or reality. Students tagged like cattle. #edcmooc
I was struck recently to read about this piece of news:
“Starting this fall, the fourth-largest school district in Texas is experimenting with “locator” chips in student ID badges on two of its campuses, allowing administrators to track the whereabouts of 4,200 students with GPS-like precision. “