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Digital Media and Learning Competition Results

September 12, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: | by | Leave a comment

Tag Cloud of contest winners

Tag Cloud of contest winners

The HASTAC and MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition results are posted. I found several interesting projects, but what I found most interesting was the tag cloud made from the winners’ project descriptions. The words have me thinking about some of the ideas we surfaced in our ePortfolios case studies. In one perspective collaboration is cheating and technologies are needed to prevent it. Another perspective is that collaboration (we is smarter than me) is the inherent message of the Internet.

This blog will attempt to emulate what we think we've learned from George Hotz and others, how to be a node in a learning community working on a problem. Our statements of the problem(s) we are working on are tagged here. We view this space as one element in our Learning Portfolio, and will link to other portions of our portfolio among systems we host and world systems we have adopted. more...
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