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This is a pinboard that I have created to show how it is possible to integrate different sites and different information using Google Gadgets and RSS feeds. 

There are thousands of Google Gadgets available. Many are pretty awful, but there are some gems to be discovered at http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open 

On the right of this, a clock and calendar, and some Google news. More examples are shown below.

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The widgets either side of this one show gadgets displaying Twitter feeds. I used the Gadget available at http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhosting.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fgadgets%2Ffile%2F101874429875337446119%2Ftwit.xml&lang=en but there are several others available that do much the same thing. 

RSS feed from jondron.org

Here are my slides from the 1st International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence, last week, here is my paper on which it was based, and here is the video of the talk itself: You can find this and videos of the rest of the stunning line-up of speakers at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcS9QDvS_uS6kGxefLFr3kFToVIvIpisn It was an incredibly engaging and energizing event: the chat alone was a masterclass in collective intelligence that was difficult to follow at times but that was filled with rich insights and enlightening debates. The symposium site, that has all this and more, is at https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/collective-intelligence-edu-2024/ With just 10 Read More
December 10, 2024 - 4:14pm
I’m proud to be the 7th of 47 authors on this excellent new paper, led by the indefatigable Aras Bozkurt and featuring some of the most distinguished contemporary researchers in online, open, mobile, distance, e- and [insert almost any cognate sub-discipline here] learning, as well as a few of us hanging on their coat tails like me. As the title suggests, it is a manifesto: it makes a series of statements (divided into 15 positive and 20 negative themes) about what is or what should be, and it is underpinned by a firm set of humanist pedagogical and ethical attitudes Read More
November 29, 2024 - 3:39pm
Here are the slides from from my keynote at the 8th International Conference on Education and E-Learning in Tokyo yesterday. Sadly I was not actually in Tokyo for this but the online integration was well done and there was some good audience interaction. I am also the conference chair (an honorary title) so I may be a bit biased, but I think it’s a really good conference, with an increasingly rare blend of both the tech and the pedagogical aspects of the field, and some wonderfully diverse keynotes ranging in subject matter from the hardest computer science to reflections on Read More
November 24, 2024 - 12:13pm
First International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence | UTS:CIC Free-to-register International online symposium, December 5th, 2024, 12-3pm PST This is going to be an important symposium, I think. I will be taking 3 very precious hours out of my wedding anniversary to attend, in fairness unintentionally: I did not do the timezone conversion when I submitted my paper so I thought it was the next day. However,  I have not cancelled despite the potentially dire consequences, partly because the line-up of speakers is wonderful, partly because we all use the words “collective intelligence” (CI) but we come from diverse Read More
November 17, 2024 - 11:35pm
For some reason I can’t get this poem out of my head today. Again. The Second Coming By W.B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Read More
November 6, 2024 - 10:02am
For those with an interest, here are the slides from my webinar for Contact North | Contact Nord that I gave today: How to be an educational technology (warning: large download, about 32MB). Here is a link to the video of the session. I was invited to do this webinar because my book (How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique, briefly reviewed on the Contact North | Contact Nord site last year) was among the top 5 most viewed books of the year, so that was what the talk was about. Among the most central messages of the book and Read More
September 24, 2024 - 1:00pm

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The list to the right comes from an RSS feed on my home page of bookmarks to papers I have written.