On Tuesday night I attended at Preceptis event at the Samba Club. Twitter at the conference was a topic of discussion among the vendors ....and it was met with skepticism. For the vendors ( people trying to sell to higher education) an opinion was expressed that they never had read anything meaningful on twitter. Well, there were 7335 meaningless tweets about and around this conference. As someone who teaches marketing I somehow believe that a business looking to find trends, satisfy their custo… Continue

ZugZug

Starting...well today we'll be raiding downtown Denver - we'll blog as we can but can you really expect more than microblogging when there's so much looting to be down. And we're still in the middle of the LMS offensive, hoping to reach the D2L lands by January. We do have vets and n00bs going this year.


So look at these twitter accounts for leets

@center4edupunx
@kzenovka

this one to encourage some allied villages to join in

@web20buffet

and this one for n00bs

@techwench

Dabu!

This is a shout out to one of our EduPunxer who is presenting at the WCET conference on Thursday

WCET is ( taken from their website) a membership cooperative of institutions and organizations dedicated to advancing access and excellence in higher education through the innovative use of technology. http://www.wcet.info/2.0/

So everyone is in Denver OCT 21- 24. The twitter hashtag for the conference seems #wcet09 but of course make sure to… Continue

CCK09 First Week

This week a couple of us EduPunxers began a open course from the Univeristy of Manitoba. It's titled Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. The instructors are Stephen Downes and George Siemens.

To learn more about connectivism feel free to watch the following videos:

Richard Schwier interviews George on Connectivism

Stephen Downes presentation:… Continue

Here is the latest update to Did You Know? Its focus is social media and business but still usable for EduPunxers, especially if you are teaching social media/business. ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8