Helen Keegan is a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Social Technologies at the University of Salford, UK, and recently wrote a post outlining one particular experience in using social media with her grad class. Working with MSc. students, Helen had the students blog and use Twitter as part of an exercise in developing a [...]

• 7781 Commenthttp://clintlalonde.net/2010/08/05/open-benefit/How+students+benefit+from+open+networked+learning2010-08-05+13%3A10%3A49Clint

I don’t play golf, but if I did I am sure a tool like Golfscape would be in my mobile app collection if only to help me explain exactly what augmented reality, and demonstrate why the NMC/ELI Horizon Report picked augmented reality as one of the key technologies educators should pay attention to in their [...]

• 7561 Commenthttp://clintlalonde.net/2010/08/02/how-to-demonstrate-augmented-reality-to-your-non-techie-manager/How+to+demonstrate+augmented+reality+to+your+non-techie+Manager2010-08-02+12%3A50%3A04Clint

Facebook announced a new feature called Questions this week that might be the tipping point that makes technology mediated crowdsourcing a commonly accepted everyday occurrence as a way for individuals to find answers and solve problems. Now, crowdsourcing is not all that new, but for most people I suspect crowdsouricng as a personal activity with [...]

• 7501 Commenthttp://clintlalonde.net/2010/07/30/will-facebook-questions-mainstream-crowdsourcing/Will+Facebook+Questions+mainstream+crowdsourcing%3F2010-07-30+22%3A46%3A56Clint

This looks like a really useful set of online learning resources. Created by researchers with the Association for Learning Technology in the UK, What research has to say for practice is a wiki containing nine guides on various topics related to online learning. The topics are: Tutoring on-line – Gilly Salmon and Mike Keppell Web-based course [...]

• 7411 Commenthttp://clintlalonde.net/2010/06/26/what-research-has-to-say-for-practice/What+research+has+to+say+for+practice2010-06-26+22%3A03%3A56Clint

I had the great privilege of being invited to talk to the faculty of the Justice Institute in Victoria last week and speak with them about a few of the projects I have been working on with our faculty at Camosun this year. The talk focused on some practical ways faculty at Camosun have integrated [...]

• 7363 Commentshttp://clintlalonde.net/2010/06/23/integrating-tech-tools-a-practical-and-peer-to-peer-view/Integrating+Tech+Tools%3A+A+Practical+and+Peer+to+Peer+View2010-06-23+12%3A56%3A12Clint