http://www.netcrit.net Researcher, Educator and Net Critic Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:50:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.netcrit.net/events/authenticlearning/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/authenticlearning/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:03:37 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=865 On Thursday 2 December, I am presenting at the National Curriculum Innovation and Quality Forum on the subject, “Risks and opportunities in authentic learning via the Internet”. The basic brief for this keynote presentation is to: summarise approaches to authentic learning in the BA (Internet Communications) at Curtin University; identify the key benefits in using [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/authenticlearning/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/doug-schuler-will-we-be-smart-enough-so/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/doug-schuler-will-we-be-smart-enough-so/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:58:34 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=826 Keynote speech by Doug Schuler at the Research For Action workshop, Making Links Conference, in which he discusses civic intelligence, giving a series of examples and summing up with key definitional points.]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/doug-schuler-will-we-be-smart-enough-so/feed/ 1 http://www.netcrit.net/uncategorized/e-democracy-%e2%80%93-thoughts-and-perspectives-%e2%80%93-keynotes-ii-edem10-conference/ http://www.netcrit.net/uncategorized/e-democracy-%e2%80%93-thoughts-and-perspectives-%e2%80%93-keynotes-ii-edem10-conference/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 10:08:44 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=717 Keynotes, Day 2, EDEM10 Conference The Promise and Contradictions of E-Democracy, Obama Style Micah L. Sifry (Personal Democracy Forum) Sifry begins by drawing a distinction between the social media, Internet based mobilisation from Obama during the election campaign and the lack of such activity within the administration, since Obama’s victory. At first (for example the [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/uncategorized/e-democracy-%e2%80%93-thoughts-and-perspectives-%e2%80%93-keynotes-ii-edem10-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-3/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-3/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:12:50 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=602 Realising our Broadband Future Disclaimer: live-blogging Smarr, Conroy, Thomas, Tucker and McDonald Larry Smarr, CITIT NBN best example of inventing in the future of the country; uses the standard rhetoric: “level playing field”, “global environment”, “citizens competing”; like one of the speakers yesterday (Cole) compares Australia and USA with Australia better. “Have early working prototypes” [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-3/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-2/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-2/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:22:02 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=555 Realising our broadband future Disclaimer: Liveblogging Second session of the 2009 Australian Govermment summit on broadband, http://broadbandfuture.gov.au, featuring Craig Mundie (Microsoft), Vint Cerf and David King (Google), Samantha Hannah-Rankin (Auspost), Nick Gruen (Gov 2.0). Mundie, Microsoft Broadband access is not simply about infrastructure but also inspiring social and economic innovations. Discusses the way devices are [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-2/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-1/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-1/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:03:59 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=525 Realising our broadband future Disclaimer: Liveblogging Opening session of the 2009 Australian Govermment summit on broadband, http://broadbandfuture.gov.au, featuring Kevin Rudd, Mike Quigly (NBN) and Jeffrey Cole (Annenburg, USC). Paul Twomey, ICANN, opens the forum: “we are using Web 2.0 tools throughout the forum” to encourage particiation both at the event and elsewhere. Stephen Conroy, Min [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/realising-our-broadband-future-1/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/assessment-reports-from-the-atn-conference-ii/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/assessment-reports-from-the-atn-conference-ii/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:26:08 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=507 Authentic Assessment of Authentic Tasks ATN Assessment Conference Keynote; Jan Herrington Opens with the maxim “We assess what we value and we value what we assess”. Uses it to show how assessing time online, numbers of posts to forums, doing MCQs values lower-order knowledge repetition, the time spent online, and quantity of participation. Cites Angelo [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/assessment-reports-from-the-atn-conference-ii/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/assessment-reports-from-the-atn-conference/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/assessment-reports-from-the-atn-conference/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:21:12 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=505 Assessment Practice: a manifesto for change ATN Assessment Conference Keynote; Chris Rust Rust reviews the literature and popular inquiry to establish that assessment is a major focus for concern. In particular, he points to Boud’s words: “students … cannot (by definition if they wish to graduate) escape the effects of poor assessment…. We must confront [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/assessment-reports-from-the-atn-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.netcrit.net/events/aace-e-learn-conference-keynote-daniel/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/aace-e-learn-conference-keynote-daniel/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:50 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=449 Is E-Learning True to the Principles of Technology? (John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning) Keynote Paper at E-Learn conference, 2009, Vancouver Disclaimer: Live blogging; see end for reflections, side notes. Begins by emphasising the wide variety of capacities of nations to engage successfully in elearning Declares the “absolute importance of technology in the educational development of [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/aace-e-learn-conference-keynote-daniel/feed/ 4 http://www.netcrit.net/events/conferences/blogworldexpo-keynote-panel-the-death-and-rebirth-of-journalism/ http://www.netcrit.net/events/conferences/blogworldexpo-keynote-panel-the-death-and-rebirth-of-journalism/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:42:03 +0000 admin http://www.netcrit.net/?p=419 The death and rebirth of journalism (A panel on future of journalism and the news) [disclaimer: liveblogging] Brian Solis (Moderator), Don Lemon, Hugh Hewitt, Jay Rosen, Joanna Drake Earl (google them) (can’t assign comments to people since can’t see from the back row ) Start with some data: “how is new media comparing to traditional [...]]]> http://www.netcrit.net/events/conferences/blogworldexpo-keynote-panel-the-death-and-rebirth-of-journalism/feed/ 3