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Last-ish post: So long and thanks for all the fish

Monday, October 29, 2007

This is the last blog post I’ll write here. If you want to skip my droning on about why, you can just head over to the new blog, Open Monologue, at robwall.ca. If you want to stay subscribed to this blog, I’ll be auto-posting the ed-tech links that I bookmark at del.icio.us so and I’ll [...]

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Online learning and horses with snorkels

Friday, September 14, 2007

Working on two online course projects has given me the impetus to take a look back at some of the things I learned and some of the work that I did while working on my M.Ed. I think I have learned a few things about online learning and instructional design. One of the constant themes [...]

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Wikibookwiki – a hybrid publishing model

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Just saw this via Brian Lamb: Stewart Mader has published a book Using Wiki in Education, which has some interesting sounding (I haven’t actually read the book yet, so this is one of those Read The Fine Article reviews) case studies of wikis being integrated into a variety of settings. Stewart’s publishing model is an [...]

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A guide to writing essays

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

I’ve shared this link with my students, but neglected to put it here for everyone else to see. Stephen Downes has put together a guide to writing essays. II recall many teachers and instructors in high school and university explaining in many different ways how to write an essay – this simple, common sense guide [...]

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