social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Photo by Kris Krug
Seven walk into a room. They won’t leave until a long list of astonishing submissions are vetted, debated, and slotted into something like a schedule. Yes, it’s planning day for the Northern Voice organizing group, hosted out here at UBC. The digs aren’t as swank as last year, and [...]
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I posted last week about a distributed, tool-agnostic, tag-based framework for online discourse. It’s a key component for one of my looming grant applications — in terms of dollars requested it likely won’t be too big, but in terms of implementing open networked learning it’s a big step. And in this case I [...]
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Vancouver got hit with what passes for a blizzard here (the rest of you Canadians can keep your snickering to yourselves) — only a few centimetres, but enough to wreak havoc with unpracticed drivers, and to remind me why Vancouver is the only Canadian city with a winter threshold low enough for me to tolerate. [...]
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I was an admirer of Sean FitzGerald and Leigh Blackall’s Knowledge Sharing, so it’s a groove and a gas to see the Flickrfied Networked Learning emerge as a follow-up. The images are amazing, the audio compelling — this raises the bar for online presentation styles. Oh yeah, the content is killer too.
And as [...]
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Just subscribed to this very promising course on Understanding Computers and the Internet from Harvard. Looks like lots of great stuff that could be useful in a whole lot of online contexts — hey, wasn’t this what learning objects were supposed to deliver?
Via Gardner, who can’t resist digging deeper:
But is it interactive?
Certainly can be. [...]
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I suppose it’s a form of pathetic fallacy to link the five days of fog we in Vancouver are experiencing with the hazy state of my cognition lately.
One of the things I’ve been batting around in my so-called mind is a framework for ripping, mixing and feeding collections of weblogs and resources for courses… [...]
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I’ve noted the odd honours that Google algorithms occasionally bestow on this weblog before.
As a Neil Young fan, snagging the top two spots for one of his most famous lyrics is a hit. (Screengrab here.)
A fleeting triumph, alas. My grip is already slipping.
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I know I can wobble off the rationality rail sometimes, using apocalyptic and politicized language about restrictions placed by The Man on self-publishing spaces.
But what to make of James Farmer’s edublogs.org being blocked from schools by some faceless, perhaps automated (perhaps not) entity? The phrases that come to my mind in response all contain [...]
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My buddy, co-conspirator and guru Jeff Miller, who assures me he will be publicly blogging soon, is in Dubrovnik (lucky bastard), giving what I’m sure was a smashing wikified presentation on emerging technologies for the CARNet Users’ Conference (worth checking out for the selection of CC-licensed images from Flickr alone, not to mention the pretty [...]
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Herb Tarlek is still ready to sell, but only to the Rheostatics.
“Frank Bonner appears as his character, Herb Tarlek, from the sit-com WKRP in Cincinatti that ran from 1978 to 1982. Mr. Bonner apparently gets similar requests all the time and, for the most part, refuses but when he played the Rheos’ track for friends, [...]
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