Monday, August 13, 2007

Weekly 10min lectures kick off for August

So far we have a great line up of international speakers for the 10 minute lectures focusing on online learning communities. These lectures will take place on the Elluminate Web Conference facility with recordings made available on the course blog and by podcast.

Please refer to the course calendar on the course blog for up to the minute information on these lectures.

Line up so far:

Thursday 16 August 7pm NZST - James Farmer. (Melbourne (Australia - Victoria) Thursday, 16 August 2007 at 5:00:00 p.m)
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James is an internationally recognised edublogger, researcher, web developer and service provider to edublogs.org. James joins us from Melbourne, Australia and will be giving a 10 minute lecture about identity and ownership in online learning. A record of James' previous work can be found on his website Incorporated Subversion. Be ready for challenging ideas.

Monday 20 August 12noon NZST - Konrad Glogowski. (Toronto (Canada - Ontario) Sunday, 19 August 2007 at 8:00:00 p.m)
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Konrad comes to us from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and known to us through his article Instructional Scaffolding. Konrad is internationally known through his blogging and research efforts and will be giving a 10 minute lecture to support his recent article, and will hopefully have time to include his ideas about loosing the teacherly voice in online learning communities.

Tuesday 28 August 12noon NZST - Nancy White. (Seattle (U.S.A. - Washington) Monday, 27 August 2007 at 5:00:00 p.m)
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Nancy is another famous educational blogger and well known for her consultation services Full Circle which focuses on skills and knowledge for facilitating online learning communities. Nancy joins us from Seattle USA and will be giving a 10 minute lecture summarising her perspectives about online learning communities and will hopefully have time to fill us in on the concept of Peer Assist.


So that's it for the rest of August, looking forward to seeing you online on the 16th! If you can't make these lectures, recordings will be made available on the course blog.

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