Colin Beer
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Current Projects
- I'm currently working on a Personal Learning Environments paper as an assessment item for eded21007 Flexible Learning. As I progress I'll endeavor to update my Personal Learning Environments page.
- The Bprofcomm program here at CQU is creating a web portal/organic learning space as an area to store and develop information specific to the program.
- We are working on decoding the Blackboard Database
- Rolley and I are recently attended the Apple AUC conference on the Gold Coast. You can read our trip report here
- We are using Google Analytics to monitor statistics on usage for the CDDU site.
- The mixing of Audio/Video and IT is an area I'm interested in, so I've created a page to park my thoughts.
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PLE Associated Feeds Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] Posted on 16 November 2008 Like this idea as it provides a chance to break the Facebook hold. Muddling about in the PLE space Posted on 12 November 2008 An attempt to understand a famous diagram in the PLE world. I think there's some value in re-framing this within the context of the Web2.0 course site idea, both so far and what we need into the future. How are you going Nathaniel? Second Life Education Research " Blog Archive " Second Life for Dummies: Nominate your fav SL spots Posted on 14 July 2008 Mark Bell (www.storygeek.com) and I are currently writing Second Life for Dummies. At the end of the book we'll be listing a few top ten lists. I'd really like these lists to reflect, not just what I find interesting and useful, but also what others f Second Life Education Research " Blog Archive " CVE, MUVE, MMOE, MMORPG...What's the difference? Posted on 14 July 2008 In the chapter I attempt to delineate between different types of digital environments in which communication/composition can happen. In effect, what I'm doing is laying out the qualities that an instructor may be looking for in an online environment for A Framework for Thinking Instructionally About Web 2.0 Tools on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Posted on 5 July 2008
Australia shows US how a real broadband strategy works Posted on 3 July 2008
It dies with its comments on... Posted on 28 June 2008 A post reflecting critically on some of the more extreme positions associated with learning 2.0 Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy " Draft of Article: Open, Connected, Social Posted on 27 June 2008 Short paper describing a more open apporach to a course using social software CQU UniNews - Lecturer 'scrubs in' for hospital cyberdrama Posted on 21 June 2008
Dangers in selling your soul to Google Posted on 6 June 2008 An intereresting, if somewhat biased in origins, concerns about PLEs
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Col's Blog Posted on 21 December 2008 The Indicators Project. The Indicators project proposes to use statistical analysis of previously untapped data sources to assist in the design and evaluation of courses and programs at CQUni in a framework defined by the seven principles of good practice in higher education. The project will attempt to gather data from sources such as Learning Management [...] Posted on 8 December 2008 This is the first of what I hope to be a series of postings talking about data mining the learning management system at CQUni. It’s a project where I’m attempting to analyze previously untapped data that is held in the LMS database. Data like hit counts, resource utilization, discussion participation, uptimes etcetera can be obtained [...] Posted on 4 December 2008 Ascilite 2008 final day. The last day of the 2008 Ascilite conference started with a keynote from Gary Poole who spoke about learning homes and although he was mainly talking about physical spaces, a lot of the thinking is valid for online teaching. Learning spaces are any areas, physical or virtual where learning occurs. Below are [...] Posted on 3 December 2008 Day three at Ascilite 2008 http://www.ascilite.org.au/ Tuesday 2nd December. Another keynote presentation started the day with Piet Kommers talking about mobile and virtual presence in the learning community. A very entertaining and thoughtful talk on some higher-level aspects of technology in education. One of his quotes was “computers are the answer before the question has been created” warning [...] Posted on 2 December 2008 http://www.ascilite.org.au/ Monday 1st December marked the start of the sessions at Ascilite 2008. The keynote presentation was by Dr Michelle Selinger from Cisco. A little disappointing for me as it had a definite Cisco marketing flavor and I have a pet hate of advertising and I’ve been exposed to a lot of Cisco “rah rah” over [...] Posted on 1 December 2008 ASCILITE 2008. Workshop 1. Educating the net generation. Project web site There were two sections to this workshop • Busting the myths about the net generation. • Designing /debugging higher education 2.0 I’ve tagged a link to this workshop’s activities with cddu ascilite on delicious. This group has done some research as part of an ALTC project on the generational/demographic effects [...] Posted on 23 November 2008 DSC02543.JPG, originally uploaded by Col Beer.
Just messing around with the Flickr/WordPress API. You can blog directly from Flickr on particular photos which appear in your WordPress blog. Posted on 20 November 2008
Exporting a Blackboard 6.3 course to Moodle Posted on 19 November 2008 Last night I attempted to migrate a Blackboard 6.3 course to Moodle as part of the CQUniversity LMS evaluation project. The course was an engineering course that was fundamentally a PDF repository with a structure of nested folders and some basic discussion forums. Moodle doesn’t support the Blackboard model and the migration tools provided with [...] Traditional vs Blended learning article Posted on 26 September 2008 Just a quick post based on an article George Siemens mentioned in his blog post. From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922155902.htm Strickland discovered that there were few statistical differences between the effectiveness of a traditional course delivery method and a hybrid one. The student satisfaction evaluation also revealed that students in the hybrid classrooms are more frequently confused regarding course requirements. [...]
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