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Digital Media and Learning Competition Results

September 12, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: | by Nils Peterson | 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.

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