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Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Oct 03 09

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Oct 03, 2009

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In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, explores and reports on new fascinating stories and insights converging around communication technologies and their impact on learning, work and society.

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Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

Heading To Athabasca University - I have accepted a position with Athabasca University and, as a result, will be leaving my current position at University of Manitoba. It was a tough decision.

Social Learning Presentations - Jane Hart shares her social media presentations via slideshare playlist. A total of 18 presentations are available, addressing a variety of technologies, concepts, and frameworks for social learning.

Narrowing Gap - Face-To-Face and Online - With location-aware software and mobile devices… and the immediacy of Twitter / Facebook, the gap between physical and virtual is shrinking.

Universities and Research - Most research in universities is not commercialized. For that matter, most likely cannot be commercialized due to specialized nature of inquiry