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		<title>Understanding others&#8217; currencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentor a couple of people at present and talked to one mentee last week about challenges she was facing in her organisation as she sought to influence colleagues to move forward in e-learning. Those who know me will not be surprised that I took us to look at the Cohen-Bradford model of influence without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2010/04/understanding-others-currencies/</link>
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		<title>Reflecting on digital literacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have enrolled in George Siemens and Dave Cormier&#8217;s free online course &#8216;Introduction: Emerging Technologies, Africa&#8217;. Our first reading is Digital Literacies:   Policy, Pedagogy and Research Considerations for Education
From what I can understand the key point Lankshear and Knobel are making in this paper is that it is more helpful to view digital literacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/10/reflecting-on-digital-literacy/</link>
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		<title>Reflecting on my role in slenz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael, evaluator for the slenz project, is talking to me today about my reflections on the project, so I am thinking out loud here beforehand.





This is an early me




How did I get involved in this Second Life pilot?
I got involved because Clare Atkins approached me after a recommendation from my friend and colleague Dave Sturrock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/09/reflecting-on-my-role-in-slenz/</link>
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		<title>Whanau or family learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the ACE online community project I am leading, we have decided to focus on whanau or family learning as the professional development focus for the launch of our online community.
Jennifer, our resource person has found 15 resources that talk about how people in New Zealand and overseas are working in this way. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/09/whanau-or-family-learning/</link>
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		<title>Barriers to using Second Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I responded recently to an invitation from Erica Driver from Think Balm Innovation Community who do interesting research into use of immersive worlds for businesses, including education. Erica wanted to talk to people who are using immersive technologies, such as Second Life, to understand the sorts of barriers they are facing and how they overcome them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/08/barriers-to-using-second-life/</link>
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		<title>Establishing an ACE online community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am managing a project for ACE Aotearoa that aims to pilot use of an online community for professional development for adult and community education (ACE) practitioners across New Zealand. The driver for the project is more top-down than bottom-up, although, there was enough belief in its potential value that it was included in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/08/establishing-an-ace-online-community/</link>
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		<title>Fun learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last two afternoons, I have met Sarah Stewart, the lead midwifery educator for the SLENZ project, to walk through the normal birth scenario. I confess to hating role plays and scenarios, but this was so much fun.
You can see me in labour here trying out various animations for Aaron the developer. I added extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/07/fun-learning/</link>
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		<title>Managing innovation projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the third time in the SLENZ project we have a definite deadline because the educators and learners involved in the pilots are expecting the in world learning experience to be ready. And for the third time, we are scrabbling to complete it in time. This is no fun for the team who have worked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/07/managing-innovation-projects/</link>
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		<title>Giving social networking a go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just over a month ago I decided to give social networking a serious go. My reasons were similar reasons to why I joined a book group several years ago &#8211; credibility in certain situations (work!) and feeling like I might be missing out on something.
For me that meant starting to blog, finally setting up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/07/giving-social-networking-a-go/</link>
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		<title>Social innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our weekend paper I read about the New Zealand Centre for Social Innovation. What is social innovation? This group defines it as &#8216;the design and implementation of better ways of meeting social needs&#8217;. How can anyone not be interested in that?
So I went to their website and contemplated going to the Social Innovation Camp [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.blendedsolutions.co.nz/2009/06/social-innovation/</link>
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