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
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
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
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
VoiceThread – Conversations in the cloud.
Found in #EDCMOOC – this could be a great tool for asychronous storytelling, personalising, communicating etc
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.”
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 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
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. “