A recent news story in the technology sector identifies Queensland’s Griffith University as being one of the first to use Twitter as a tool for assessing students: …About 340 first-year Griffith University journalism students have to Tweet ongoing assessment pieces this semester. Lecturer Dr Jacqui Ewart said she understood Griffith to be the first university [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
University assessment 2.0?
Posted in Articles, tagged australia, curriculum design, education 2.0, griffith university, twitter, web 2.0 on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web 2.0 fast facts
Posted in Fun, Statistics, tagged australia, web 2.0 on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just for fun, here are some web 2.0 ‘fast facts’ that demonstrate the increasing popularity of online social technologies both in Australia and worldwide: 76% of online Australian adults regularly use social technologies (Source: Forrester) Approximately 30% of Australians have their own blog (Source: Universal McCann) Australia is currently the fourth biggest Twitter-using country (Source: [...]
Web 2.0 resources for educators and professionals
Posted in Learning Resources, tagged education 2.0, learning 2.0, web 2.0 on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JISC Netskills this month made public a preview of several web 2.0 animations created as part of a new Web2practice project, recently announced at the JISC Conference 2009. The project aims to provide educators and professionals with online guides and resources to enable them to learn more about the benefits of web 2.0 technologies for [...]
Twenty-one reasons for librarians to find time to learn about new technologies…
Posted in Papers & Presentations, tagged learning 2.0, librarian 2.0, web 2.0 on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently EDUCAUSE Australasia 2009 took place from 3-6 May in Perth, Western Australia. One of the presenters there was Kathryn Greenhill, a librarian working at Murdoch University Library who also maintains her own blog. She presented a paper titled “Why Learning about Emerging Technologies is Part of Every Librarian’s Job”, which you can read by clicking [...]
e-learning podcast from JISC
Posted in Podcasts, tagged e-learning, web 2.0 on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest podcast from JISC, “A self-confessed geek on JISC’s ‘Developer Happiness’ event”, talks about ways web 2.0 is having an impact on e-learning developments. At the beginning of the interview David Flanders (Digital Library and e-Learning Programme Manager at JISC) talks about how web 2.0 is enabling a more informal type of learning, as well as [...]
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