Credits As History

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What a classic diagrammatic overture incomplete with any semblance of connection between the artifact repository and that of cloud based publishing. Where are the swarming body-worn mobile repositories of a meshed network and interconnected global network that makes up the mobile learning ecosphere ?

Yes….another late entry as I meander through Leigh Blackall’s struggle via the Reverend with credits where credits are due and Johnathon Mott’s EDUCause paper on envisioning something beyond the architectures of learning commodification.

It strikes me as I prepare this Phd application that I’m probably  positioned to be agreeing with the matter of factness of an academic register for the refreshing array of ways to say the same thing complete with it’s reinforcement of semantics for correct referencing register whilst disagreeing with the need for a populist approach to redeem credits where credits are due from a personal politic perspective.

Questions I’m asking myself include;

• How many isms should I be bookmarking in a bid to understand the human condition of needing credit ?;
• Is the  history tab enough ?
• Does the LMS actually have any future in a (open) learning network ?
• Can the simple act of sharing knowledge be such a bad thing ?

Probably best I keep writing this open prose on why I’m examining the implications of geo-data enabled body worn technologies on educational organisational futures policy.

Pending the Moodle 2.0 release, who will tell Blackboard that it is dead, dead, dead….even if it has a cleaner interface ( apparently).

You(r) Tube

Finally DET NSW has relented.

Announcement received a short while ago;

Dear Colleagues,

I’m pleased to announce that after careful consideration from today the website YouTube will be available within the department for all staff.

YouTube is full of excellent teaching resources. And with YouTube now part of Google it has much stronger safe search features which we have been able to enable within the department.

I’m sure staff will use the YouTube resources in an appropriate manner consistent with our acceptable usage policy. This is the first step in making other internet resources available to you and your students in a safe manner.

With my best regards,

Michael Coutts-Trotter
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TAFE NSW
26 June 2009

We are adults after all.

More Flashpoints

For some reason I dont think that this will end peacefully.

More insights here.