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Entries from January 2009

Multi-User Virtual Environments in Teaching and Learning

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Hot on the heels of the ALT-J Special Issue on Immersive Virtual Worlds is the EXTEND two week discussion at CABWEB on Multi-User Virtual Environments in Teaching and Learning.  We have excellent resources and input from the project more …..
Do join us.

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Tags: Learning Technology · Practice · Research · emerge

Special Issue of ALT-J - Learning and Teaching in IVWs

January 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

I have been very excited to see the publication of the electronic and print version of the ALT-J Special Issue - Learning and Teaching in Immersive Virtual Worlds.  I think that it is a great resource for anyone working in this area, but I may be biased by the fact that it’s the first issue [...]

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Tags: ALT · Learning Technology

Blog about a Woman in Technology that you admire

January 9th, 2009 · No Comments

I blogged about this  yesterday at http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog
Suw Charman-Anderson has set a challenge for people to blog about a woman in technology on Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March.   As I write this 747 out of 1000 have pledged to do this so hitting the 1000 target won’t be an issue but let’s make this count [...]

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Tags: gender

Welcome 2009

January 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Shiny Happy People
Originally uploaded by s.o.f.t.

This has been a long Christmas break for me - winter virus followed by holiday - and I am finding it difficult to get into the swing of the New Year and work commitments.  It would be easy to be gloomy in this environment of economic downturn but [...]

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Tags: Food · Fun · Gardens · Knitting