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Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via CrunchBase Twitter is tool #1 in Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009. It jumps from position #11 up to the first. Followed by Delicious (first in 2008) and YouTube. Then, in order from the 4th place: … Continue reading →

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The Class movie

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image by Getty Images via Daylife No music at all in the 2008 French classic “The Class” (Entre les murs). The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2008, is based upon a true-story-book by François Bégaudeau and … Continue reading →

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Rock Band Academy

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via Wikipedia The more I teach… and the more I see and use technology within education… the more I get anti-teaching. This technology business and all my active involvement with Web 2.0 and education stuff have taught me a … Continue reading →

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Murder, Madness and Mayhem

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via Wikipedia Sometimes people object to using Wikipedia for academic purposes. I am not going to deal with the pros and cons of such use here (though I am convinced the pros far outnumber the cons). I am going … Continue reading →

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Viral Education 2.0

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The VIR-ED project is a research project looking at how we can adopt 2.0 thinking to creatively engage people in higher education learning and research. Here’s a compelling video with a message: Viral Education 2.0

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