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5 technologies to promote creative learning

Learning with e's

2) Wiki''d Writing: Ask your students (in small groups or on their own) to either edit an existing Wikipedia page, or create a new one on a topic not yet covered. The latter option is more advanced and problematic, because many of the commonly known topics are already well covered on Wikipedia. I bet you can come up with some more!

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Remix culture and education

Learning with e's

Sometimes several works are combined or 'mashed up' to create new versions. In the digital age, where many have access to the participatory web such as social media, it is easier than ever to remix and mashup content. One of the most widespread examples of digital remix is Wikipedia. Unported License.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

I found myself using Wikipedia early in research tasks on all sorts of topics. and unless you innovate ( Innovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning ) you are going to fall prey to alternatives be it do-it-yourself learning or start-ups. I lost the argument. In the long run, they'll lose. Make a Difference?

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Ward Cunningham: Ten Years (and more)

Jay Cross

Wikipedia took off when they got rid of that one.&# ). Let’s take a paragraph from Wikipedia, this one about the Louisiana Gulf oil spill. Video mash-ups. Well, it might hold some things back but that’s the current exploration, too: figuring out how to slice, dice, and mash-up video elements.

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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. Wikipedia: nothing up yet For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. Chris Messina: activitystrea.ms.

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LCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Predictions

Tony Karrer

I found myself using Wikipedia early in research tasks on all sorts of topics. Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups What do you see as the biggest challenges for 2007? I lost the argument. In the long run, they'll lose. No one should advocate putting stuff on a desktop anymore without a dang good reason.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

A day with Dave Snowden , October 26, 2010 Dave Snowden is a compelling storyteller, mad genius, and irascible Welshman who has pioneered the mash-up of complexity theory and management practice. Open up the Navigation. Please if you can, look this research up! Sumeet Moghe, 2009. I’m still absorbing the implications.