Wow! First conference I see where every day posters change. I decided to post my notes following topics instead of conference time schedule, it sounds a more promising approach to me. But let's talk about the content...
Ok, we have cross-cultural communication (even if cyberspace is the product of western culture), temporal and geographical freedom, community of practice, multimedia accessibility... someone call all this new "academic literacies" (for instance, the old one is taking notes; the new one is how to search into electronic sources). And yes, forums allow to feel part of a learning community (of practice, if you like the term).
But what do we really want?
Productivity or creativity? the general feeling is, that students don't need more and more information, but a method to distinguish the important infos from the rubbish! If distance learning becomes "try to push buttons until the program let you enter the next level" we don't increase intelligence in our trainees more than in Weizenbaum's Eliza.
I feel there is a new wind in e-learning professionals, called blended learning. Yes, after the euphoria in distance learning for some years now the most advanced parts of the world as Canada reckon the value of face-to-face interaction, where accountability and course rigor is better. This happens as teachers are not so confident in technological self-efficacy. So, the solution is: use both, according to situations. After all, as Dianne Yee said (more or less), excellent instructors are so in every environment.
Nevertheless, yesterday Werner B. Korte, form Empirica, showed us how much the EU commission spend to make distance learning available to NMS (New Member States, in the EU jargon), project called i2010, because you need hardware and software before dealing with quality.
Out of topic: a great system for blind pupils was presented by a clever Japanese guy, really worth a look.
Blogger > Wordpress
Annuncio spostamento blog
Ho deciso di muovere la mia pagina web accademica e il mio blog in un posto unico, e ho scelto di fare un blog e il sito con l'hosting gratuito su wordpress. Per favore, aggiornate i vostri feed reader al seguente indirizzo:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/FedericoGobboBlogo
Se mai cambierò di nuovo, aggiornerò il feed, così voi non vi accorgerete di nulla. Analogamente, mi sono deciso a comprare un dominio che rimarrà anch'esso permanente:
http://federicogobbo.name
Tutto ciò che ho pubblicato sul blog di Blogspot rimarrà intatto perché già riferito nel web, perciò non ha senso toglierlo. Per non perdermi di vista, potete farvi vedere in qualche social network. Quelle a cui partecipo sono tutte listate a questo indirizzo.
Blog Change News
I moved my academic web page and my blog in one place, and they are both hosted (i.e., web page and blog) with the free hosting by wordpress. Please, update your feed readers with the following:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/FedericoGobboBlogo
If I would ever change again, I will update the feed, so you won't notice. Analogously, I finally decided to buy a domain for me. This will act as a permanent url:
http://federicogobbo.name
Every post I published in the Blogspot blog will remain here as it is already spidered by the web. If you want to be in touch with me, consider to knock me via some social network. Mine are listed here.
Ŝanĝo de blogmotoro
Mi portis mian universitatanan tekstejon kaj mian blogon al ununura ejo, ambaŭ gastigitaj de Vordpreso. Bonvolu aktualigi vian rettralegilon al la sekva treleg-adreso:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/FedericoGobboBlogo
Se mi volus ŝanĝi denove ejon, mi aktualigos la traleg-adreson, tiel ke, vi eĉ ne notos la ŝanĝon. Simile, mi finfine min decidis aĉeti porĉiaman ttt-adreson por mi:
http://federicogobbo.name
Ĉiu blogaĵo kion mi eldonis per Blogspoto restos tie ĉar jam araneigita ttt-e. Se vi volas resti en kontakto kun mi, frapu al iu socia reto kiun mi partoprenas. La kompletan liston vi trovas tie ĉ.
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