“Technological convergence – changing the way we create, consume, learn and interact with each other”
This month Martin responds to a listener request and discusses Google’s latest social feature Buzz. Buzz has been designed to make sharing easier, linking to Google other services including YouTube and Reader as well as third party networks like Twitter and Facebook. We conclude that whilst Buzz is currently of limited benefit to the majority of educationalists it is another example of how the interlinking of separate communication and media streams has the potential to benefit formal and informal learning, technological convergence ‘changing the way we create, consume, learn and interact with each other’. An example of this convergence is outlined in Martin’s recent work which allows twitter discussions made during television broadcasts to be replayed as subtitles in BBC iPlayer downloads.
Aspects of ‘convergence’ are further highlighted by Kevin has he discusses his months blog posts which includes his reflections on the recent Learning Technologies Conference and the JISC Business and Community Engagement programme. In particular Kevin highlights the growing importance of both informal and “rapid e-learning”, discussing some of the tools which can be used to facilitate and measure its impact as well as highlighting some effective practice case studies.
Kevin also highlights JISC’s Business and Community Engagement programme which is “designed to support institutions in their strategic management of relationships … in order to deliver services which benefit the economy and society”. This programme is a response to the Governments desire to enhance knowledge transfer/exchange and Kevin discusses some examples of this happening locally in the West Midlands and nationally. This also links to Kevin’s interview with Ian Hart who is Head of Schools and Colleges Partnerships at University of Wolverhampton. Click here for the interview with Ian Hart.
HE Update February 2010
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Duration: 36 minutes
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Our blogs
Links from Martin’s subjects: Timestamps represented as [minutes:seconds]
- Google Buzz – another Web 2.0 service [1:30]
- Offical Google statement on Buzz [1:30]
- Orkut, Google’s first social networking tool [2:00]
- Friendfeed, share your digital stuff [2:45]
- Robert Scoble’s (Scobleizer blog), article on Buzz [3:15]
- bloglines, A web-based personal news aggregator [3:30]
- What is an RSS feed? or Commoncraft: RSS in plain english [5:30]
- Google (RSS) Reader [6:00]
- MASHe Festive fun: Auto tweeting your Google Reader shared items using Yahoo Pipes and twitterfeed [6:10]
- Google Maps [7:00]
- Geotagging – how to [7:15]
- Whats is Geotagging
- MS Bing maps [11:00]
- TED talks video on Bing Maps – stunning!
- Google Apps’ for education [7:45]
- Kevin’s netvibes personal (web based) aggregator [8:45]
- What is pagecasting? [9:00]
- Professor Michael Wesch’s course pagecast [9:15]
- Personal Learning Environments (PLE) – what is a PLE? [9:45]
- What is push technology? [10:30]
- Martin’s BBC iplayer + twitter subtitle mash(e)up [12:00]
- Dr Tony Hirst – Open University Lecturer [12:15]
- The Virtual Revolution TV program supporting website [12:30]
- What is a twitter hash tag? [12:45]
- What is a backchannel? [13:00]
- Embedding Twitter into PowerPoint – free download [15:15]
- Users who helped make the Virtual Revolution [15:55]
- Virtual Revolution experiment: Web behaviour test – What kind of animal are you? [16:50]
- TV streaming through a web browser [17:17]
Links from Kevin’s subjects: Timestamps represented as [minutes:seconds]
- 2010 Learning Technologies conference [18:00]
- Kineo Brighton based e-learning company – free resources [18:30]
- Keynote speech by Josh Bresin on Informal learning: new strategies and practices for greater business impact [19:00]
- Informal learning – definition [19:30]
- Synchronous e-learning tools [20:00]
- Trending learning tools of 2010 – (Huddle & Yammer, etc) [20:15]
- The Training Zone website [21:00]
- The original etherpad techology now used in ietherpad and primarypad [21:15]
- Wetoku – tested by Kevin in this post [21:30]
- SIG Quality Assurance/Quality Enhancement in e-learning [22:15]
- Micro chunks of (e)learning [22:45]
- Towards Maturity efficiency indicator [23:45]
- Evidence for Change case studies [25:15]
- Excellence gateway e-learning case studies [25:30]
- Screencasting tools (Screenr, Screentoaster) [26:00]
- Business Community Engagement (BCE) [26:30]
- Intelligent Career Development Company and JISC funded e-Portfolio based pedagogy for SMEs [28:45]
- Ian Hart WLV partnerships [29:15]
- UHI Partnerships [30:45]
- Networked Learning [30:50]
- DimDim webinar tool [32:15]
- Collaborative networking practice [33:15]
Intro/Outro music: 1-2-3-4 from stream of unconsciousness by Jeremy B. Northup