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Joan works and plays on the web and is happy to speak to groups or individuals about the web's communication possibilities
Category Archives: Downes
Myers-Briggs & Blogs
Through Stephen Downes’ OLDaily, I stumbled across Typealyzer – http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=en – and let it analyze my blog (and me;->). Here’s its analysis of me according to this blog: It goes even further and says my brain has this pattern of activity: So there you have it, what my words and interests reveal about me!
View PostNewspapers and Web Design
We are living in confusing times because we are living through the biggest change in human communications since the printing press, maybe the biggest change ever. You can see this in the small changes that happen as we leave an old technology for a new. It is clear that newspapers and magazines, even tv, are View Post
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Posted in business, communication, digital economy, Downes, Internet_use, organizing_information, reading_online, web2.0
Tagged communication, McLuhan, newspapers, Stephen_Downes
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About Gaming – & Learning
If it’s this big … the education community should be taking notice! I confess I know almost nothing about gaming, but I suspect it will be (should be) deeply important to education. As a student, I used historical fiction to help me learn history, and it worked. The learning promise for gaming appears to be View Post
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Posted in ads, business, cartoon, communication, Downes, education, Internet_use, learning, learning 2.0, netgen, virtual
Tagged education, gaming, Jerome_Sudan
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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able by Wesch
Michael Wesch is a pedagogical hero of mine. I’ve watched videos his classes made; I’ve watched a video of him explaining his teaching, and I asked a question on Twitter, and even though he doesn’t follow me, got an anwser from him within a few hours! He understands the impact of the new communication ecosphere View Post
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Posted in communication, Downes, learning, learning 2.0, Michael Wesch, netgen, Stephen Downes, technology, video, web2.0, webtools, wiki, Wikipedia
Tagged communication, education, learning, wikis, WorkLiteracy
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Mobile Learning: The Next Step in Technology-Mediated Learning
“Mobile Learning: The Next Step in Technology Mediated Learning” – http://tinyurl.com/3ckqlz – looks at both what learning is and how it might be changing as mobile devices become ever more common. The author of the article, Ellen Wagner, is the director of worldwide e-learning at Adobe Systems Inc. I recommend this brief but insightful article View Post
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Posted in Downes, e-learning, mobile_learning
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