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Category Archives: Webloggia
Knowledge Management and Trojan Mice
Stephen Downes addresses a question I keep asking myself: So What is Knowledge Management Anyway? Regular readers of Downes won’t find too many surprises here, but the piece serves up a concise, non-technical and pointed overview. A number of his … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence, Webloggia, XML/RSS
Tagged Higher Ed, Open Content
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Open source models and manifestos
I neglected to link to George Siemens’ proposal for Developing Open Source Content that came out a couple of weeks ago. DOSC has four primary purposes: 1. Forum for collaborative creation of open source content. Academic fields are not isolated. … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Emergence, Objects, Webloggia
Tagged Higher Ed, Open Content
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A learning objects presentation, or a cry for help?
Last week I gave a presentation on reusable media for a group of educators at UBC’s Faculty of Science. I did my best to give a talk that used as little learning object lingo as possible, and left aside any … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Emergence, Objects, Webloggia, XML/RSS
Tagged Higher Ed, Open Content
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The karass, the granfalloon, and emergent technology…
Steven Johnson’s recent column gets off to a great start, citing Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, in which the author… … explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon. A karass … Continue reading
Towards Structured Blogging
Another novel idea from S
Searching the BlogSphere
A quote from the article by Micah Alpern: Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from … Continue reading
Weblog as developer’s tool and feedback mechanism…
I came across CAREO programmer D’Arcy Norman’s weblog a couple weeks ago. UBC is in the process of installing an instance of the repository, and it’s fascinating to watch how features that get mentioned in conference calls (such as the … Continue reading
Weblogs in BC’s Post-Secondary Education Community (?)
I enjoyed getting to know Scott Leslie from C2T2 at last week’s meetings… he seems to be wrestling with a lot of the same issues that I am, and is excited by many of the same possibilities. Even better, he … Continue reading
The battle is engaged…
It took a while for me to figure out why my stylesheet changes weren’t rendering… now they are — and man, are they ugly. The tide is turning. I shall prevail. UPDATE: Victory is mine! It’s still ugly, but it’s … Continue reading
If it’s Thursday, it must be Movable Type
Well, thanks to David Wiley for providing me this space, all set out like Christmas dinner. Movable Type is the third weblog system that I’ve used for Object Learning. Let’s hope it’s the last for a while.
