Digital Ethnography

Ethnography: ethnos = people and graphein = writing.
Ethnography should be of interest to anyone curious about ICT and human beings. In the very old days, adventurers and officials traveled the world and made written reports of what they experienced. These stories and reports gave a more or less thorough description of the human social phenomena’s [...]

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Keep It Simple Stupid

Both my good friend and colleague Tom Erik Holteng and I have previously talked about simple tools that can be used to create a feeling of interactivity between the student and the teacher. This interactivity is important to stimulate the cognitive processes of the student and together with true projects aimed at stimulating the intrinsic [...]

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Internet – the window for the whole world

Under the above heading Agnieszka Konieczna, an MA student from the Department of Media and Information Technology, University of Zielona Gora, talked to pupils at primary school no. 7 in Zielona Gora about what Internet is and what the threats related to it are. The work done was related to a task given to the [...]

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Project-Based Learning in Distance Education

It`s quite common to talk about project-based learning in class rooms, but few mention that this is also a good method for teaching topics in distance education.
Using project-based learning you may allow a variety of learning styles, and thereby create diversified teaching. This is, as I see it, one of the most important things in [...]

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Kids and Digital Media

Digital tools are enabling kids to express themselves, to create their own identities, and to personalize the media they use. Their creativity seems limitless and includes such various forms as mp3 lists, online game characters, digital movies, and blogs. Just take a look at YouTube and see how kids place themselves in full view of [...]

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Most kids avoid Chat sites

Research done by MA students from the Department of Media and Information Technology, University of Zielona Gora, indicates that kids prefer chat systems like TalkTalk or MSN instead of web based chat. This is supported by some smaller findings done by my students, and the reason for this according to some of the kids in [...]

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The real challenge of Distance Learning

In distance learning the tools is not the main problem, even if it sometimes might look like it is – with computers breaking down, LMS systems not functioning etc. The main challenge of distance learning today is the learning itself.
A teacher will have to take a student centred approach to teaching, and provide students [...]

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