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As with most educators nearing start of session, I’ve been running around like a headless chook for the last couple of weeks. As expected this has caused my blogging time to drop off completely and in fact it’s been 10 days now since my last post, which is an unprecedented gap here the last couple of years.
I was reflecting on this last night while doing the dishes – which seems as appropriate a time as any to think about your motivations for blogging. I …

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A post today by Alan Levine on his “Secret Blogging Strategy” has really go me thinking. His suggestion is as follows:
“There are googles of sites telling you how to blog, but I’ve not come across a secret strategy I have been hesitant to share, and I was actually mostly unaware of it until recently.
This tip will not make you rich or famous, but maybe it will keep you in focus – read a blog you can’t stand.
His logic is that such material can act as …

I’m opting to make this a 10-minute post only because time constraints are pretty substantial today, and yet the topic is important to broach.  Hopefully I’ll manage to come back to it later.
Via George Siemens, I’ve just run across a post by ReadWriteWeb (Lardinois, 2008) concerning a decision by RNA Biology to tie article publications into Wikipedia.  RWW indicates:
“RNA Biology has decided to ask every author who submits an article to a newly created section of the journal about families of RNA molecules to also submit a Wikipedia page that …

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Over the last several years I’ve delved deeper and deeper in to the nature of online interaction; how we engage with one another; how we develop, nurture and sustain relationships, and the implications this has on our realities as people and as human beings. I’ve explored as many different tools as I can get my hands on and immersed myself in as many modes, mediums and environments as I can possibly experience – all the while doing as much as I can to try …

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I’m sitting in bed as I type this, currently unable to sleep.  As is increasingly the norm these days I’ve been pondering what appears to be a growing disconnect between my passionate beliefs in learning – and how best to nurture it – and the current state of education – and where it is headed.  I’m frustrated with the standoff.
I believe quite strongly in the personalisation of learning, and the significance of each person finding their own way through the educational landscape.  Education and formal educational …