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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Parker Palmer on Moyers: It’s time to “get real”

By Melanie, on April 15th, 2009

In this current moment of economic, cultural and social adversity it’s all to easy to give in to cynicism, hopelessness and fear. What’s more difficult is locating the inspiration and optimism necessary to move forward.

Distinguished author and educational leader Parker Palmer reflects on how we got here and where we’re headed in this [...]

[image gallery] Beyond blocking: Schools v. the internet

By Melanie, on April 4th, 2009

I recently crowdsourced my Twitter network for their perspectives on internet blocking in schools. The above flash slideshow is a collection of their responses. A gallery of the individual tweets is here.

Taking part: There are several ways you can contribute and collaborate to this evolving discussion:

Twitter: If you wish to contribute your [...]

Open minds, open tools, open education

By Melanie, on April 3rd, 2009

Mozilla/Creative Commons Open Education Course – Seminar 1 View more presentations from philipp.

These are the slides from our first session of the Mozilla Open Education course. As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied [...]

Beyond blocking: A collective web policy for schools

By Melanie, on April 1st, 2009

In preparation for a talk on the opportunities and challenges of social media in education, I am inviting educators, administrators, students, parents and other educational stakeholders to contribute your thoughts for the development of a collectively produced school web policy document.

The form below reflects an informal and exploratory first step in realising this [...]