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A Spoodle in Space - The Space Tourist Chronicles

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  Blast off on a wild space adventure! We're crammed into our battered little Subi spacecraft, heading to the dusty outpost of Outpost Aurum. Our mission: to reach the ocean planet of Oceanus Station. Join us as we station-hop through space, in a calamity of errors, as intrepid space tourists.  Script Our battered Subi spacecraft, a relic of pre-Collapse Jump engineering, groaned under the weight. Myself, BK, and Katcha, the genetically modified spoodle with its enhanced olfactory sensors, along with enough protein paste to outlast a minor vacuum breach, were crammed inside.  A brand-new Brass Monkey cryo-unit hummed in the boot, our lifeline for the long haul. Our mission: a jump from Beagal's orbital dock to the dusty outpost of Outpost Aurum, a waypoint on the long haul to Oceanus Station, a planet known for vast oceans. Outpost Aurum, a rumoured oasis of functional grav plating, was our first target. Beagal's orbital dock was a pressure cooker of recycled air and stal...

Distance Education and eduTechnology

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My favorite Distance Learning quotes From https://twitter.com/jjfbbennett Shifting content-based teacher transmitted delivery to student inclusive learning requires a whole-of-school approach. Distance Education provides learning to students separated by distance, this should not lower teaching-learning quality. Technology is not enough. Transformative structures can be easily disregarded by implicit morphic practices Morphic behavior operating in a new structure will not improve learning effectiveness or achievement. It may do at best: maintain output. Distance Education technologies plasticizes the actual place of instruction, within which the teacher fabricates the describable activities. Distance Education teacher is about transformative mastery of ICT contextually applied to the pedagogy used in quality classroom teaching. Gatekeeper teachers can easily conjure up arguments to maintain the status quo to resist disruptive technologies. 5 levels 4, 21c teacher: global, school-org...