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Entries from October 2007

Merging media - CSI-NY meets Second Life

October 26th, 2007 · No Comments

This looks like an interesting first - linking up a tv show with activities in SL. Ewan McIntosh has an excellent post here in his blog.

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Tags: Second Life · Technology · Virtual Worlds

Searchbots - a personalised search aggregator

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been using Pannini, my own personalised search aggregator, for a couple of months now and am finding it very useful. Pannini is a searchbot - a search engine that feeds off Google, Yahoo, Delicious, Magnolia, GeoURL and others. By feeding it with your own key tag words, it builds up an artificial intelligence, enabling [...]

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Tags: Web 2.0 · search engines

Will Richardson Keynote Presentation

October 4th, 2007 · No Comments

A really great presentation by Will Richardson describing where our students are coming from, how they are living there lives with the technology and how we need to be looking at the pedagogies we use as teachers and asking ourselves how relevant they really are.
4 questions you should ask yourself as a teacher:
1. What are [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · changing culture · podcast · social network · wiki · wikipedia