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education

Students reading?

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Creativity coupled with Web 2.0 tech is finding a way into our classwork, and changing it. In one of his latest posts (How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class) Mike Wesch (Digital Ethnography) … Continue reading →

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Mike Wesch: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Mike Wesch gave a nice talk yesterday, at Educause’s ELI 09 meeting, titled “From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Experiments in New Media Literacy“, a conference on the state of education and the Web 2.0 revolution, which compels some serious questions on … Continue reading →

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2009 Horizon Report

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

At Educause ELI09 meeting, Larry Johnson (NMC‘s CEO) presented the latest Horizon Report for 2009. The Report discusses the technologies which will be at the forefront of education during 2009 and it places them in three time horizons. The technologies … Continue reading →

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Not my grandpa’s blog

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I was again fortunate enough, today. I got to see Obama being sworn in (not live, since I was in a flight). And I am in Orlando at the Educause ELI 2009 meeting, among people I admire and follow through … Continue reading →

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Bavatuesdays and the Art of Poster Making

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Antonio Vantaggiato

bavatuesdays is a great blog by Jim Groom. What is it about? Education, of course, with a tint of macabre b-movies like Mario Bava’s old terror ones in black and white. In this post, Jim shows a poster: Justin Toney … Continue reading →

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