November 2008

cloudythinking, originally uploaded by zanzo.
I mentioned in my previous post that Julià Minguillón and I have been throwing around Mike Caulfield’s suggestion that we think about how we might exploit a third party system with a good API such as Delicious.
For a while, I was just thinking it might be used as a social adjunct [...]

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Kicking ass chart, Emerging Tech 2008, San Diego, CA.JPG, originally uploaded by gruntzooki.
I posted some early work that I have been doing with Julià Minguillón and his team here at the UOC on trying to make the act of searching statistics resources in DSpace in itself a learning experience. I am hoping to get an [...]

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Jim "I’ve got your children" Groom – Edupunk Posterboy, originally uploaded by bionicteaching.
Three recent triumphs by everybody’s favorite edupunker Jim Groom that merit some shout-outs:

I was on an airplane when the recent NMC Online Conference in Second Life session with Jim and Tom Woodward went down, and while I feel very fortunate to be here [...]

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I’m pleased and more than a little relieved to pass on the news that the Moose will once again be loose next year, as the Northern Voice Personal Blogging and Social Media Conference will be back for its fifth year next February 20-21. Like some of the other organizers of years past, I have scaled [...]

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A good morning’s work, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer.
The above image represents a snapshot of about two hours out of two days of intense dialogue with my primary host here at the UOC, Julià Minguillón. I will not begin to try to reproduce or even summarize the extensive range of our discussions, but I do feel [...]

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a line of screens, originally uploaded by phitar.
Note: this was mostly written last Friday, and I only write here a small fraction of what I wanted… But I do not want to hold this post hostage until I get it right.
I do not have the time, bandwidth (technological, cognitive), or battery life to properly respond [...]

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Sometimes you slave over a post that you hope will get people thinking and clicking and get no response. Other times, something dashed off in a moment seems to connect with people for mostly inexplicable reasons.
My previous post triggered a surprising number of comments and posts, many of them very provocative, and it has been [...]

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I hate grading, and as a result don’t think enough about the potent and vital role of assessment in learning. I admit it’s a shortcoming.
On the train back to Barcelona from the IN3 offices yesterday, I had a provocative conversation with Julià Minguillón about the problem of structuring assignment schedules in virtual courses. Essentially, how [...]

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