tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30784234835430581322011-07-29T02:30:37.652-05:00A blog site for my personal lifelong learning environment in various communities of practiceRobert Voutierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15334347807067108961noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078423483543058132.post-22015492791362406302010-06-08T11:59:00.029-05:002010-06-09T12:31:32.073-05:00

Better late than never. AHHHHH! Smell the asynchronicity !!!The topic for the interstitial week 6/7: Find and OER repository and comment on it's sustainability.What does it do...............?In the interest of expediency I chose to just WRITE about my findings rather than do any kind of multimedia formatted information. I have done podcasts, video podcasts (misnomer -as they are just called

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This is a brain-dump too, as it appears, according to my wife, that this is the type of writing is of which I am most capable.Maybe I should write my own On The Road? As we were encouraged to rant, I will oblige accordinglyIf our most successful OERs in 'production' or 'mass circulation' now are the ones that are highly organized and stripped of cultural content, and if we agree that OERS that

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Checked MUN and they are similarly locked into the pay for content structure. IN the Articles area you can see that many are not accessible unless you are enrolled.In the ejournals section .............some publications are free and some are Ebsco hostand some you have to be a enrolled student at MUN to access.The only open area with completely free is in the Digital Archives which run have

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I chose to access the Brandon University Library website which has totally proprietary content (Ebsco Host as seen from the highlighted areas.Each time you tried to access any of the content areas you had to log in and be a registered studentI tried to access the Catalog but of course 'NO CAN DO!"+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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The reusability paradox as I posted last time is as Wiley et. Al. pointed out: the more bereft of context a Learning resource (LO or OER) is the more reusable it is but the less instructionally effective. People get more from highly structured online materials in an LMS or OER repostories, but is structured nature eviscerates it usability.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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The Question put to us was: QUESTION -- How are the issues around OERs similar to those around learning objects? How can OER initiatives be sustained?I read the papers (after printing): Learning Objects Literature by David Wiley (http://opencontent.org/docs/wiley-lo-review-final.pdf), the Reflections on Open Educational Resources:and institutional case study by Norm Friesen (http://

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This year's Manitoba Association of Distributed Learning and Training annual international conference at the Red River College Princess Street Campus was a roaring success by reckoning. The workshops by Darren Kuropatwa from MECY and Stephanie Chu from Simon Fraser University provided many educators with Web based online learning tools they hadn't previously known about. But my thoughts on both

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Week 2 of our course on OERs required all students to blog about what they thought the definition the title terms above were. I have fell behind in the course but, because of the magic of asynchronicity in these courses, I can catch up without much of the course content (except being interactive with my colleagues ) being lost. I can (and have seen) however that this can caused much grief and

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The course I am now enrolled in at the University of Manitoba is for me going to a further examination of OERS from both a critical and a practical view. From what I learned in the Introduction to Emerging Technologies course about OERS they are very English Language and High bandwidth oriented endeavours. On Stephen Downes blog (for example We Learn, Thoughts on Solutions, & OERs Moving On ) and

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There is a very interesting and disturbing trend to unchecked exhuberance for all things computer-related. PBS recently aired a documentary called Digital Nation, which among other things, showed how Korea is now feeling the effects of Internet addiction. Also of interest in the show was the interesting study done at MIT. If MIT grads function at diminished cacpacity while 'multitasking', where

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Dr. Joel Westheimer is presenting a public lecture at the University of Regina on Monday, January 25th, 3:30-4:45 (CST). I will doing my best to stream the event live via this Ustream channel.Details of the session are found below.“No Child Left Thinking: Democracy at Risk in Canadian Schools”Dr. Joel Westheimer from the University of Ottawa will be delivering a free public lecture to the

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Steve Earle is still battling his demons in more ways than one. Friday night at the Burton Cummings Center in Winnipeg, the reformed heroin and whiskey addict was battling that legacy yet again. A certain number of 'fans,' who still identified with pre-jail era Earle, seem to think that by recreating a drunken, drug-induced stupor, they were being as rebellious as him in his 'bad ol' days' and

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Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications, at Pontificia Universidad speaks words of wisdom about the realities of open education from experience in the developing worldhttp://www.firstmondaypodcast.org/audio/open2_final.mp3

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Ismael Peña-López has locked down Digital Literacy for mehttp://ictlogy.net/20090317-towards-a-comprehensive-definition-of-digital-skills/

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Ismael Peña-López has locked down Digital Literacy for mehttp://ictlogy.net/20090317-towards-a-comprehensive-definition-of-digital-skills/

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Flash Movie of why all content should be free (Lawrence Lessig)http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html

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I agree with Andrea. In my Technology courses, and the ELA courses to which I have lent assistance with implementing this kind of solution, the learning curve for using the software effectively and creatively ends up being the project; the curricular outcomes coming in as secondary to just finishing the video task. I find this to be the main reason that the Language Arts and Social Sciences

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This is a question I posed to George Siemens on May 13th.Have you any references to scholarly work that would address the question of isolationism and self-referentialism in communities of learning.I have looked at Dave's edtech talk (lurking only) and a a few others and there seem to be very few voices of descent. I was just wondering if persons of dissenting opinions would be ignored, banished,

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My colleague Asif Devji and I are doing the Digital Literacy course at the University of Manitoba and I thought this interchange might be worth postingTo give some context: We were asked to read several online papers on Information Literacy and suggest ways we might include this in our classrooms. That lead to Asif Devji's response and our discussions below AsifAs an exercise on information

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I love the asynchronicity of the course I am doing but one can really get far behind. One of the questions I was going to post is that if we as a community of (paying) learners are finding it hard to engage and maintain connectedness( and the assumption is that we have the requisite skills to read, synthesize, evaluation and assess and give back to the community since that is ultimately how we

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The following is how I would use information in the articles mentioned to modify my current Applied ICT class to incorporate 'information needs' in a task-based learning environment. I concentrated on the papers by Pilerot and Hiort ad Ornais for developing a design course for engineers; Sandy Campbell's 21st century defining of Information Literacy paper and Carol C. Kuhlthau's keynote address

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I just started a new course at U of M in the Emerging Technologies stream. It's the only way I can seem to keep following the topics in the emerging technologies field. If I find it hard when I have a great interest in it, I think it must be very hard for those with just a 'passing fancy' to stay engaged. I guess as a latecomer the field and not employed strictly in the research field or the

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Personal Professional DevelopmentView more presentations from Stephen Downes.

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Innovate - H. Sapiens Digital: From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom

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Just read about why pageflakes was offline and thought I would share this linkhttp://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css&page=0The comment at the bottom of the article on cloud computing lead me back to thinking about my programming days and how it was extremely difficult even back in the 90s to find good, talented IT persons .This makes me think that given shortages in the workforce in

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