Posted in PLEs, collective on Jun 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks to the DownLoad Squad I bumped into a very interesting tool to mine collective knowledge. Avanoo is a social software tool that allows members to query others through simple Likert like scale items. Nothing too new here except that everyone gets to view and segment the results according to demographic criteria including gender, nationality, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in PLEs on Apr 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
During the last eight years of his life the Canadian media theorist Marshal McLuhan worked on developing and validating four “Laws of Media” He argued that every new media Enhances through new affordances, Obsoletes through improvements in form, function and cost; Retrieves older patterns of behaviour and Reverses when over stressed into older, non functional [...]
Posted in PLEs, educational social software on Apr 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I am certainly not the first to ponder the relative merits of blogging inside or outside of education’s closed garden walls (see Bill Ives Is Blogging Inside the Firewall an Oxymoron?) However, I’ve recently seen a couple of presentation by University innovators using blogging - but from behind the institutional firewall and password protection - [...]
Posted in Distance Education, PLEs, educational social software on Mar 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been on the road (well make that airplane, train and ‘coach’) for most of the past 6 weeks having gratefully responded to offers from colleagues to present keynote talks at a number of interesting academic conferences. I’m not nearly prolific enough to hit the blog compose button after each event, so am summarizing my [...]
Posted in Distance Education, PLEs, educational social software on Oct 11th, 2006 1 Comment »
Nancy White has done a great series of postings where she creates a simple taxonomy of three types of blogs - single blog centric, topic centric and community centric.
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Posted in Distance Education, PLEs, educational social software on Sep 26th, 2006 Comments Off
This afternoon I recorded a 10 minute demonstration of the Me2u system which is an instance of elgg.net set of social software tools. These tools are being piloted tested at Athabasca University.
The demonstration is available as an Elluminate recording here . Clicking on this link will start the installation of the java based client tool [...]
Posted in PLEs on Sep 13th, 2006 3 Comments »
The PLE panel session at Alt-C was a big hit.
Graham Attwood podcast his contribution and I liked his sense that PLEs are not an application, but the indiviudalized set of tools he uses to manage and contribute to his part of the Net. I did a brief comparison of the coordinated and controlable option of [...]
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