Paul Melrose
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This is the second of my four Google Plus introduction videos. I see many people create very weak profiles, and by this I mean they do not share enough information to let others know what their general interest are. I am circled by many people who tell me nothing about themselves, so they give me no [...]
Recently I showed a lecturer with the Dublin Institute of Technology how Google Plus works, and I promised to create some content that she could share with others as a general introduction to Google+. While Google+ is relatively easy to use, at least compared to Facebook, there is still a bit of an initial learning [...]
I was on G+ when news of Steve Jobs’ death broke. Within an hour there was a constant and unbroken stream of reflections and expressions of sadness and appreciation. Many posters wrote of early memories of their first Mac, and how Apple had sparked their love affair with technology.
The impact Jobs [...]
In late 2007 Martin Weller published his ‘The VLE/LMS is dead’ blog post. Weller’s post was not an obituary for the VLE, but rather an argument that we will see a shift from institutionalized VLEs towards ‘loosely coupled teaching’ (a phrase he credits to Scott Leslie).
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Weller’s post is a walk-through of the alternatives to using common feature sets found in most VLEs. He also deals with some of the possible objections that might be raised were one to decide to make that shift. I suspect that any educator who has set up a Moodle platform, or experimented with creating courses on other VLE solutions, will have had similar thoughts about the readily available and free Web 2.0 tools out there.
