About 15 years ago I planned on going into the field of language learning, but I got sidetracked along the way with flight simulation, computer-based training and the Web. Ken Carroll on Learning is a new blog, with a post this week on language learning, in this case Irish. Since we’ve been running circles around [...]
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When I last mentioned Radian6, they didn’t have much information on their website. Now you can see screen shots and get more detailed information on this New Brunswick company that is focused on “social media monitoring”; or basically finding out who’s saying what about your stuff.
A post today on Read/Write Web covers 10 Semantic Web [...]
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Following up from my post on pedagogy and politics, here is an update on what is happening in New Brunswick. The best place for up to date information and contacts for the FSL Commission is at Canadian Parents for French NB.
Locally, Amanda Cockshutt sent a letter to the FSL Commission:
Dear Commissioners Lee and Croll,
As a [...]
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I’ve been thinking that video on the Web tells some stories a lot better than writing about them. After having stumbled through digital photography, I’m now thinking about trying my hand at videos.
Tom Werner has collected some excellent advice on how to shoot video and has posted it as a handy checklist for anyone interested [...]
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Once again, I’ll be going to TRHS and talking to the high school entrepreneurship class this week. I had some good feedback last time and would always appreciate more input. Zach, the teacher who is behind this, said that the Spring session was a hit, especially the trailer for the movie The Corporation. Many of [...]
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CBC News (follow the link for data on each province & territory) reports that:
The teacher student ratio is going down, with a current average of about 1:16
Expenditures on public education have increased by almost 25% in the past six years
Outwardly, these are positive signs, as there are more teachers per student and we are spending [...]
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The mass media are spreading a variety of stories about the Internet’s inability to carry traffic in as little as two years. I’m not an investigative journalist but I wonder if this is a concerted FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) campaign to put pressure on governments and regulators to allow the telecommunications oligopoly to more freely [...]
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eLearn Magazine has just published my article entitled, So you want to be an e-learning consultant?
Many people dream of striking out on their own as an e-learning consultant but aren’t quite sure what it takes to succeed in a competitive marketplace. In what is sure to be one of eLearn Magazine’s most popular features, [...]
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Michael Feldstein has been examining Desire2Learn’s competency model that is supposed to make e-learning that much more aligned with education. The D2L model is one that starts with a Competency, from which there are certain Learning Outcomes and from these, Assessments can be developed. Michael shows some of the inherent difficulties with such an approach:
This [...]
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The title comes from Mark Pesce’s presentation in September on Mob Rules, which I found via Will Richardson. That means that everyone in the edtech field has already heard about it. Anyway, this is an absolutely fascinating read, even for someone already immersed in all this Web 2.0 stuff.
The whole idea of the Mob is [...]
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