social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
As of now, I’m theoretically on vacation. I wish I could claim victory over my commitments, but alas I will be taking the last pieces of my grading with me to Vancouver Island, depending on the kindness of my students to the (hopefully not-so-)bitter end.
But the vibe is already different. A palpable lightening [...]
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I bashed out this screencast on the basics of folksonomies (requires QuickTime, 19MB). This one was recorded live with the built-in laptop mic (so my keyboard rattles like cannon fire). It does not pretend to be a comprehensive or deep account of folksonomies and tagging — it just focuses on a few [...]
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I’ve been doing an increasing amount of grumbling about the performance of my Mac, which may be unfair as I likely need to upgrade some hardware and do some file maintenance and cleanup. But I’ve also been noting some behaviour from the good ship Apple Corp that has lately been rubbing me [...]
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I might be slow, but I’m sure…
So if there was any anticipation about how Yahoo intends to position itself after its acquisitions of Flickr and del.icio.us, with the announced hosting partnership with Movable Type it’s clear now. What do they offer? End to end management — you can pick your own [...]
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Forget about the latest confirmation that the Web 2.0 business model is to get bought by Yahoo! or Google. My own big news is surviving the day that is circled in blood-red ink on my calendar every year. We met the TLEF application deadline, submitting our office’s raison d’etre a full hour before [...]
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I started this as a comment to D’Arcy’s post on how Canada’s political parties stack up as adopters of social software, but since my output here is so slim, I decided to cut and paste it into my own space.
D’Arcy and Rob before him make lots of good observations and assessments on the various approaches [...]
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Interesting example of multimedia student feedback, with some challenging questions in response from M C Morgan:
…it also shows how significantly commenting would have to change to make it useful in screencasting. Let’s talk about micro-management. Let’s talk about the pedagogical value of the student being able to skip around in the commenting.
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I know I’m not exactly breaking a hot new story here, but I wanted to offer a shout-out for Writely, a very slick writing app that is a cross between a synchronous wiki (that allows multiple concurrent editors) and an online word processing program.
I’d poked around the tool before, but it isn’t [...]
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