The new Marketing behavioural lab...

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Thing #7: Blog about Technology

I am thinking about the application of tools like blogs and Flickr to be incorporated into the Study Tours - Sandra, your thoughts? - it might be an interesting way for the students to create and share their diaries and to review visits and post images... actually the blog site and images could form part of the assessment tool. I wonder if students would find that an interesting exercise, or if being away and having to log on to complete these tasks would be seen as difficult... probably not, given that students are already logging on and doing this, and other Facebook like things, all the time.... an idea worthy of further investigation I think! I'm going to try and find Sandra's blog and post this as a suggestion.

Thing #6: Some Flickr Fun

Montager is a great tool, I entered New Zealand to see some pictures of the home land and got a good variety of pictures... although it seems some people tag their face with where they visited so there were a bunch of picture of chinese tourists... anyway, the general idea is cool. I wonder what people do with the mosaic once it is done? it doesn't seem that you can save the entire mosaic or even that the images are big enough to view if you did save it... maybe it's just a good search tool... I'm undecided now on its usefulness... any ideas of what others might use this for?

Super Random

Super Random
Originally uploaded by Matt_Lew

my first photo post

Thing #5: Explore Flickr

Groups would be a great way to share images for class content (i.e. retail concepts) or even for the MMSP study tour program. Theya re essentially "a way for people to come together around a common interest".... and they can be private, so only able to be viewed by a class for instance.

Tags allow the user to give photos a keyword (Tag) to either help you, or others, find your photos. There is a page on Flickr that lists popular Tags... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ (and upon reading Wags blog further I see he notes this too).... wedding and travel are popular... but also generic... I am unsure why this photo was a result of searching for Monash (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccdoh1/3933056600/)

woops... just posted my first image and then read the privacy bit on the 23 things blog.... learning in action...

The blog set up has been relatively stress-free... looking at others Blogs, I see Tapps has some great content (http://web-my-mind.blogspot.com/), so will be keeping on eye on this blog as a great source of info for this learning process

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How do you think that Web 2.0 technologies will change the way we learn, teach and live?

Web 2.0 technology means that increasingly the learning environment is interactive, and students are engaged in the (potentially) co-education process - 23 things is a great example of the way Web 2.0 platforms can be used in a co-creative process where the educator and student can engage in a process of discovery and, in our case, self-directed learning. This has obvious implications on the way we can teach students ... and it is particulalry important that we stay abreast of these techniques as our students are the ones that are leading the way in adopting these technologies into their lives. The impact on the way live is increasing, and with memberships of platforms like Facebook increasing at rates of 1000% (Razorfish research, 2008), their role in our lives is set to continue to develop...

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