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Perhaps there was another way...

Posted: April 29th, 2008 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  Learning  NewTech  What is... 

I'm reminded again for this week's lecture of the evolving nature of our information landscape. All the news reminds me as well. Good news, bad news, new news. Nothing is new.EPIC is food for thoug

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A failed experiment

Posted: March 23rd, 2008 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  innovation  Learning 

This blog is a failure. As a method of getting people to share ideas, blogs can be good. They can be successful. But they need to be 'in the flow' of the work we do. There needs to be a reason for

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Business Informatics@Griffith

Posted: December 8th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  Learning  NewTech  What is... 

An interesting development within the Tech-ish groups at Griffith is the proposal for a combined degree in informations systems and business. We (Management in Business) have been collaborating with

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Man drives large truck under small bridge ... gets stuck

Posted: November 29th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  NewTech  OldTech 

Apparently, Doug Morris (truck driver and CEO for Universal music) drove his large truck (the music industry) under a very small bridge (technology, aka the internet). One would think that being in b

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Feeding my quest for understanding

Posted: October 11th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  Learning 

One of the feeds I read every night is the latest news straight out of the ABC Top Stories. You can grab an RSS feed here. Interestingly, from a cross cultural perspective, was this story about queuing for a bus. It just goes to show how much we take for granted.

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What does the ’e’ stand for?

Posted: October 7th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  Learning  Technology  What is... 

I just came across yet another attempt to define e-learning (or is it eLearning or elearning?) As long as it's not eeeee! Learning!? I suppose we should be feel good. (That big long eeeee is eeeee as in eeeee! mouse, not eeeee as in (wh)eeeeee!) According to what Tony Karrer says here, there are heaps of different definitions and apparently no consensus. I'm not going to add to that.

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As we may learn ... or not

Posted: September 30th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  Learning  Technology 

I've just been reading Vannevar Bush's As we may think from 1945. Actually, it was written in 1945, I'm not in 1945 reading it. But I digress. I'm sure I've read this before, but there was some striking ideas that occurred to me in this reading, most notably our approach to teaching the how of using computers.

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2 things I read today

Posted: September 23rd, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  innovation  Te[a]ching 

This is what happens when you get too busy. There are so many new things, so many ideas burgeoning that it's hard to keep up. That's probably one of the reasons I like wikis for learning - students get to keep me up to date.

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Hard things about using the internet in HE

Posted: August 12th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  innovation  Learning  NewTech 

I was reading (rereading for the umpteenth time) Grandon Gill's 5 (Really) Hard Things about Using the Internet in Higher Education. It's from eLearn Magazine published early last year. There are some interesting points that I'd like to think about, because I'm sure many of us are overwhelmed by the changes in what we do.

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Managing the way we work

Posted: August 12th, 2007 by Alison Ruth

Categorised as:  DominoBlog  Silly 

Trying to update this blog is sometimes quite frustrating. The restrictions on the ways of inputting information, while to some degree necessary, are almost archaic. Blogs are mostly a Web2.0 phenomena, even though there were around in the early days. Blogs are about interaction, about expression, and yet, the ways in which I interact with this blog are severely restricted.

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