Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
The latest issue of EduCause Review headlines an article Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit by George Siemen, Peter Tittenberger and myself. The work is mostly George’s but I was happy to play a supportive role in its production and editing. The article does a good job of overviewing the ‘augmented’ use of network technologies [...]
Posted in collective, educational social software on Feb 26th, 2008 6 Comments »
Recent posts have gotten me thinking further about the “taxonomy of the many” groups/networks and collectives that Jon Dron and I have been interested in for the past year or so.
First there has been a small buzz about “Personal Learning Networks” I enjoyed Jim Lerman’s post Will Richardson adds some nice comments on Utube [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Jan 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
Scott Leslie and his colleague Bruce Langdon have crafted an excellent review of the promise and practice of social software use in both formal and informal learning. The 27 page report is titled Social Software for Learning: What is it,
why use it? and is published by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education.
The report makes a [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
With all the buzz about blended learning coming from our campus based colleagues, it got me thinking about the value of “blended learning” in distance and online courses. I realize that there are a number of different ideas and “blends” associated with the term ‘blended learning’, but it seems the common institutional and educational use [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Nov 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
In a very interesting post titled Social Network Transitions, Fred Stutzman discusses the often lemming-like move of the masses from one social site to another. Of particular interest is Fred’s distinction between between object and ego based social software sites. Fred writes “An ego-centric social network places the individual as the core of the network [...]
Posted in educational social software on Nov 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
David Snowden in an interesting post titled Aggregative or emergent identity? Rethinking Communities
(thanks for the pointer Stephen Downes ) argues that we need more discussion on the aggregations of individuals to note the emergent capacity of aggregations – beyond those of individual members being connected. He notes the confusion and multiple meanings [...]
Posted in Personal, educational social software on Oct 24th, 2007 7 Comments »
On the train yesterday, through the beautiful fall colored Swiss countryside, I was delightfully surprised to speed through the small town of Elgg – It is located between Zurich and St Gallen. It seems the kind of town you’d feel comfortable owning a pet Jersey cow but I image you could get by with a [...]
Posted in My Work, Uncategorized, educational social software on Sep 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Here at Athabasca University we are finally getting serious about ELGG and bringing our instance (Me2U) inside the single signon set of apps we provide to all staff and students (portal, library, Moodle, etc.). This means all new login names and thus all data from the old version is lost (sigh…..)
It is annoying having to [...]
Posted in My Work, educational social software on Jun 17th, 2007 4 Comments »
I’m tempted to make this post just another in a growing list of whines from the edublog community about what I don’t like about SecondLife. I could talk about the terrible support – prepare to restart the whole process of building your avatar if you ever forget your password. Or I could note the disappointment [...]
Posted in Distance Education, PLEs, educational social software on May 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Scott Wilson notes some concerns with the “lack of clarity” between the three entities of the Many that Jon Dron and I have been discussing and blogging about.
An educational taxonomy or a model gains its pragmatic value by the extent to which it helps practitioners and online learning researchers develop, implement and assess learning [...]
