edutweet – a model for elearning

Together with 5 other Masters students at UTS, we designed a model for an online learning community where members can participate in a socially constructive learning environment.  edutweet primarily focuses on adult learners and educators participating asynchronous in a collaborative yet flexible social network that assists in the completion of learning tasks.  Although the philosophy of [...]

Moderators – Community Managers – Technology Stewards

When I became involved in the group assessment task for developing a model for an e-Learning community, I was at first, a little apprehensive about using a microblogging tool such as Twitter to enhance collaborative learning.  Of course, we recognised that Twitter used alone, could not completely enhance all learning but together with other tools, [...]

Day of revelations

PDay – Presentation day for group uni work, Saturday 23 May 2009.
My last thought when going to sleep on Friday night was ‘god!  I have to get up so early for a Saturday!  That doesn’t seem fair and what about my sleep-in’.  Perhaps I shouldn’t have worried as I was pretty much awake most of [...]