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Mini-series on e-portfolios and personal learning environments

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Graham Attwell is running a thoughtful min-series of blogs on this topic. See: Attwell, G. (2009) e-portfolios-WTF Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, September 4 Attwell, G. (2010)...

Games to defeat obesity, Napoleon, and students’ learning, and other games’ news

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From Natasha Boskic: At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (March 9-13, 2010), US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announced the Apps for Healthy...

Using web 2.0 in adult training: a European project

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From the press release: SVEA is a newly launched European Leonardo Da Vinci project, which focuses on promoting the use of web 2.0 in...

Quality podcasting in social work

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Schaffhauser, D. (2010) Producing a Podcast: Lessons from U Buffalo School of Social Work Campus Technology, 24 March This is the first of two articles...

Will lecture capture replace asynchronous distance learning?

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Harrison, D. (2010) Lecture capture helps Riverside meet nursing demand Campus Technology, March 10 From the article: What do you do when 500 applicants are competing...

Using games to teach Latin

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Fusch, D. (2010) An innovation in learning games Academic Impressions March 11 This is a report of a 'minimal technology' approach to using games in...

New educational software for mobile learning in developing countries

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Commonwealth of Learning (2010) LIVES: Mobile phones for learning Connections February, Vol. 15, No. 1 In a blog posting in December (2009), I wrote that...

Lifelong learning for farmers in developing countries

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Commonwealth of Learning (2010) Lifelong learning for farmers: Sri Lanka Connections, February, Vol. 15, No. 1 The Commonwealth of Learning has expanded its lifelong learning...

Update on educational video games, March 2010

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Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this John Rice (2010). New 3D Learning Book by Karl Kapp. Educational Games Research: Research and discussion concerning instructional video...

Will banning laptops in class work?

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de Vise, D. (2010) Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls Washington Post March 9 An article about instructors who have banned...