Informatic / Meta Project

just want to let every one know about where we are in the project. We have conducted interviews with several arts department staff and the results will be organised and presented to the client asap. our next step is organising a semi formal focus groups between students to find out their opinions on the project issues.

This article is worth reading.
It looks at podcasting and talks about its uses in language teaching.

http://www.waoe.org/president/podcasting_article.html

Spoken Internet To Go: Popularization through Podcasting

by Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
President, World Association for Online Education (WAOE)

The JALT CALL Journal, Volume 1 (2)
ISSN 1832-4215 (August 2005)
http://jaltcall.org/journal/contents_1_2.html
posted here by permission of the journal editor

Blogs help students think for themselves
Anna Salleh
ABC Science Online

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1450106.htm

Will read!

Here is a good article on Blogging.
It links to some good resources.
Worth checking out…

http://www.criticalmethods.org/collab/v.mv?d=1_30

Just a note about posting to the blog…
It is a good idea to tick the appropriate category on the right hand side of your posts….this makes for easier searching…

You can select multiple categories for any one post…

NB you can add your own categories
Click manage at the top of the dashboard
Then categories
Then Add New category…

too easy!

Guys…
you should have a look at this page it is FULL of good resources for your research…

http://www.xplanazine.com/resources.html#anchor5

Article: Right Way and Wrong Ways of Podcasting in Education

http://www.xplanazine.com/archives/2005/08/right_ways_and_1.php

Here is an article about different technologies called
Social Machines
By Wade Roush August 2005

There are many different technologies mentioned in this article.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/issue/feature_social.asp

Just out of interest, what are we going to discuss for this upcoming meeting? Currently the proposal is being worked on, how about the revised focus questions?