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[IR7.0] Blogs, identities, and epidemics

By alex | Published: 9/27/2006
I split sessions this morning. The sessions are not named this year, but I started in a program that seemed to circle around issues of identity. Social Class in Online Discussions The first presentation was on disclosure of class in parenting groups (Karen Farquharson of Swiburn). She was interested in the ways in which class […]
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[IR7.0] Pre-conference on mobile learning

By alex | Published: 9/27/2006
Well, I was blogging this as we were working, since I had a machine in front of me. But somehow as we came to our break, I was chatting with someone and my left hand, entirely without my permission, reached up and Apple-Qed away my post. Too bad, too, since it was an exemplar of […]
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Dogears and classroom ROI

By alex | Published: 11/24/2005
Interesting brief article in Queue on IBM’s Dogear social bookmarking tool for the enterprise. It appears to be a system like del.icio.us, but with the ability to assign groups and to set up levels of privacy. They skip over the most interesting and difficult part: How to get folks to use it! They casually mention […]
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Alternative conference presentations

By alex | Published: 10/17/2005
The wise old owl Sat in an oak. The more he saw, The less he spoke. The less he spoke, The more he heard. Why can’t we be like That wise old bird? – Edward Richards At the last AIR meeting, the executive committee appointed me to be the new Jeremy, heading up the systems […]
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