I wonder if there is a WordPress or other blogging platform plug-in that uses a mash-up to suggest tags from an underlying, emerging vocabulary formed from various social knowledge sites?  Within a social tagging system such as Diigo, Delicious, Technorati, Digg, Twine: even in your own blog, tags and categories emerge and are guided. One's … Continue reading Can we assemble around tag cloud normalisation @jiscssbr @cheeky-geeky

They’re so organized at America’s Next Top Model that we might consider asking them to inform people about the resurgent H1N1 flu virus.  We might also consider hiring Bravo’s producers as government public affairs consultants.If you think I’m joking about that, you probably have no business working with social media for the government. via briansolis.com … Continue reading Fallacious Celebrations of Facebook Fans via @cheeky_geeky

Faviki is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to tag webpages you want to remember using Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge via faviki.wordpress.com If the wikipedia ontology: dBwiki and the ontologies from Delicious, Digg and Diigo could be mashed up … Continue reading Faviki social bookmarking based on emergent (?) ontology dBwiki

In the hallwayBlack bin bags of VHS tapesRemember when this wasLearning technology via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com I like it 🙂 in the hallway black bin bags of VHS tapes new technology (haiku-ized) Posted via web from George's posterous

Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks. via radar.oreilly.com This article significantly deepens our understanding of Twitter, but I do not think the either/or structure or negation in … Continue reading Is Twitter “Not a Conversational Platform”? @cheeky_geeky – O’Reilly Radar

Prevention is better than cure. Structure101 allows you to define how the world should be, promote a shared vision through the team, and enforce (or just monitor) conformance. via headwaysoftware.com Wow. How far would they go to do that? Posted via web from George's posterous

IT in Teacher Education (ITTE)  Session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869  Barriers-research to understanding factors that inhibit IT practice in a fluid, nonlinear, iterative culturally complex world. Pathway is not an appropriate way to describe this multi branched space: cultural cartography or learning terrains. Communities (of practice) are the answer?  cites Beetham, McGill & Littlejohn 2009  CF Brown Lauder … Continue reading ITTE: education is fluid, non-linear, iterative (chaos innit?) #falt09 #altc2009

Sarah Cornelius describes two 72-hour SMS simulations using edutxt (http://www.edutxt.co.uk). These are small alternative reality games (ARGs), or models of social action that run in real-time.  Session is here: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869 Slides: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/attachments/0000/4429/alt-c_2009_sim.pps  - Flood Sim: Flood control. You are the local civil defence chief faced with a flood event based on Vaison la Romaine floods … Continue reading Two 72-hour txt sims are mini ARGs #altc2009 #falt09

David Sowden gave a great presentation (session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869 ; materials here: http://prezi.com/-90jqrzyxcuy/view/#37)  Caboodle, a UPortal-based aggregator of learner facilities for 17000 lifelong learners in 10 colleges and one university, provides SSO for all the VLEs (Moodle, Bb & Sakai), queries MIS in all the colleges and uses Sun ID management system to authenticate users. Firmly … Continue reading Dave Sowden Caboodles in a portal #falt09 #altc2009

That is the ‘unofficial’ stuff. Now on to the official things – papers, symposia and the like. I have tried to develop a series of linked papers / contributions for these events (I am not sure whether it will work) around the themes of Web 2.0, digital identities and Personal Learning Environments.  For the first … Continue reading Sustaining Communities @GrahamAttwell