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		<title>Selling Solar Panels to Oil Sheiks</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/08/22/selling-solar-panels-to-oil-sheiks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/08/22/selling-solar-panels-to-oil-sheiks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a reflective mood on my Friday evening commute home I tweeted that: Being an advocate of #elearning and #edtech in universities is a bit like trying to sell solar panels to oil sheiksless than a minute ago via SeesmicMark Smithersmarksmithers That tweet seemed to strike a chord with some people and I can understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Draft Educational Technology Landscape Map</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/28/a-draft-educational-technology-landscape-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a &#8216;map&#8217;. There are a number of such maps around already. Some of these are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with MOPPs</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/05/16/the-problem-with-mopps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 06:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your university have a minimum online presence policy (MOPP)? Is it successful? I have a bit of a problem with MOPPs. I don’t think they work and, in fact, I think they are counterproductive. Here are my reasons: 1. Command and control Let’s face it universities aren’t corporations and never have been despite what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice &#8211; SNAPP</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/03/25/social-networks-adapting-pedagogical-practice-snapp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/03/25/social-networks-adapting-pedagogical-practice-snapp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this useful tool this morning thanks to watching Anne Marie Cunningham&#8217;s interesting presentation on using Web 2.0 technologies in BlackBoard. The tool is called Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) and it is defined on the SNAPP site as: SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/03/the-decade-ahead-in-higher-edtech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Read Write Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[augmented reality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elearning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s the end of the decade and the new one has just started. I thought that, in the name of a harmless bit of fun, I would stick my neck out and make a few predictions about where we might be going with edtech in universities over the next decade.  I&#8217;ve kept it brief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBoard, Sakai and Moodle &#8211; Point/Counterpoint at Educause 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/11/06/blackboard-sakai-and-moodle-pointcounterpoint-at-educause-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/11/06/blackboard-sakai-and-moodle-pointcounterpoint-at-educause-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This very interesting discussion was held recently at the Educause 2009 Conference in Denver.]]></description>
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		<title>Google Wave in a Sentence</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/10/19/google-wave-in-a-sentence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/10/19/google-wave-in-a-sentence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it’s been a week since I was kindly sent an invitation to Google Wave. I have to admit that at first I was a little underwhelmed but since then, as I have started to add contacts, I I have started to see it’s potential. Before I talk a bit about it’s positives I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insidious Pedagogy &#8211; some thoughts on Lisa Lane&#8217;s article</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/10/07/insidious-pedagogy-some-thoughts-on-lisa-lanes-article/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/10/07/insidious-pedagogy-some-thoughts-on-lisa-lanes-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.masmithers.com/2009/10/07/insidious-pedagogy-some-thoughts-on-lisa-lanes-paper/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just read Lisa Lane’s article in First Monday entitled “Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching”. I really liked her paper, not least because it raised some issues that I hadn’t considered before regarding default settings in an LMS and the idea of opt in and opt out learning management systems. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public LMS Evaluations</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/09/20/public-lms-evaluations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/09/20/public-lms-evaluations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many universities are currently, or have recently, reviewed their enterprise LMS including my own employer. Unfortunately we haven’t made our review process public but many universities have been generous enough to provide information about their reviews. The following list are some of the publicly available LMS reviews that I have found. These were really useful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/08/08/educational-technology-and-e-learning-finds-for-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/08/08/educational-technology-and-e-learning-finds-for-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the bookmarks that I have saved to my delicious account using the elearning or edtech tags during the last week. Dis-Integrating the LMS (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) &#124; EDUCAUSE Some interesting thoughts on the use of an LMS in higher education including this quote: For long-time instructors there can be considerable lock-in to a teaching [...]]]></description>
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