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Steve Hargadon: Reflections on the Blackboard Acquisition of Elluminate
Excellent blog poast by Steve Hargadon, July 10, 2010.
Some text from the long, 'must-read' post:
"The acquisition of Elluminate (my employer) and Wimba by Blackboard came as a complete and total surprise to me, but maybe it shouldn't have. In the versions of the "School 2.0" presentation I've been giving this past year, I've boldly declared (are you imagining the swagger of a prognosticating keynote speaker?) that a new platform, "Educational Networking," would be born of three current technologies and will become the framework structure of the educational experience. And here's the slide I show to demonstrate how this new platform will evolve:" -
Tech Transformation: The IB Learner Profile - Caring
A MUST=READ blog post, and comments, from Maggie Hos-McGrane in Switzerland supporting and defending the IB learner profile and holistic approah.
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ISTE 2010 - 7 Steps to flatten classroom
ISTE Vision recording of presentation given by Julie Lindsay and Vicki David at ISTE 2010 Denver.
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iEARN & Youth Summit 2010 Virtual Conference
I am very impressed with how iEARN have set up their virtual piece for the Youth Summit to be held this month in Canada! Come and join in the virtually for presentations and discussions.
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Blackboard To Chalk Up Elluminate, Wimba -- THE Journal
"Blackboard is buying out ed tech developers Elluminate and Wimba, whose technologies are in use by more than 2,600 schools, colleges, and universities in the United States and around the world. The companies have entered into definitive agreements for the acquisition, which will cost Blackboard $116 million in cash, according to information released July 7."
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'Rebooting business and the world' is the sub-title for this, soon to be released book by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. The sequel to Wikinomics.
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Heidi Hayes Jacobs - Steve Hargadon
Live recording with Heidi Jacobs about the future of education. July 2010
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"Schoology provides an enterprise level learning management system and configurable social network. Instructors and students can easily create, share, and manage academic material through a social networking interface.
By incorporating learning management tools into a social environment, Schoology provides a means for teachers, students, parents, and administrators to seamlessly communicate and collaborate on academic issues." -
Drumbeat Festival 2010: Learning, freedom and the web
The web is changing how we learn. It surrounds us with a massive and remixable tapestry of perspectives, facts and data. It gives us the freedom to learn whatever we want at our own speed and in our own way. It lets us become our own teachers. Fundamentally: the free and open nature of the internet is revolutionizing learning.
Who among us has not fallen into a long journey across the web on a surprising topic? Or learned a new skill by making, building or creating something online? Or, for that matter, found a new mentor or apprentice in a forum or on a social network? More and more, this is how we learn.
The open technology and culture of the internet are at the heart of this revolution. They give us raw material to take control of our own learning. Teachers and learners around the world are experimenting, inventing, creating, exploring and building in wonderful ways with this raw material. Mozilla's 2010 Drumbeat Festival is a gathering of these people.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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