Nov
19

Tinkle, Bing, Boom

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Learning Technologies 2008 Conference

Friday 7th November

Sparking Up the Network: Tinkle, Bing, Boom

Karen Fainges’s workshop:

Karen talks about how we can get the most out of networks in the classroom.

She is witty and entertaining and provides a light-hearted approach to her topic, and tells us that Gen Y isnt the only ‘logged on’ generation. Grey nomads are some of the best users of the internet: they have the time to learn everything they can, they willingly share information, love belonging to communities and love new technology. They may struggle with the technical aspects but engage with and use the technology to its advantage.

Karen shows us how she has used an online learning management system to create a learning community of Business Studies students.

Her humour creates a nice window to shed some stress in relation to the serious nature of what we are trying to achieve here at the conference.

Nov
7

Tandberg Product Demonstration

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Learning Technologies 2008 Conference
Friday 7th November

Tandberg Product Demonstration

The best thing about the demonstration was the YouTube video they showed called: Ask Gen Y.

This video provides an excellent glimpse into the key events, images and technologies that have shaped the world that this generation of young people have grown up in. This is largely a complex, competitive, hyperconnected world where boundaries are collapsing by the minute, blurring the difference between real and virtual lives and ways of living; services and providers; users and creators, participants and observers.

Watch it here:

Ask Gen Y