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

via ouseful.wordpress.com This was written about visualising the opened09 Open Education conference. But it is more widely useful as an exploration of the affordances of visualisation generally as an aid to understanding. In the Institutional innovation programme I am trying to understand the basic questions underlying visualisation of the programme: people, projects, technologies, themes and … Continue reading Preliminary Thoughts on Visualising #opened09 #jiscssbr

Who are the goverati, you might ask -- and are you among them? Goverati is a term I coined a few weeks ago while participating in a Social Media Club DC discussion panel. In essence, the goverati are people familiar with government and how it works and who understand new social technologies. They want to network … Continue reading Drapeau: The rise of the goverati — Federal Computer Week

What is Ensemble? Ensemble is a service that enbles you to locate RSS feeds that link to Open Educational Resources. You can search for feeds on particular topics, or browse by institutions or by categories, and then download the results in OPML format for use in a feed reader or other application. You can also … Continue reading Ensemble OER feeds: War-6; Peace-1 @scottbw

The SUSTE-IT project reflects the increasing importance of ICT-related energy and environmental issues, in the [higher education] sector and elsewhere. For example, there is ever growing consumption (and even more rapidly increasing costs) of electricity in data centres, and in computers and peripherals; legislative and other pressures are requiring reductions in ICT-related carbon emissions, and … Continue reading Sustainable IT In Tertiary Education (SUSTE-IT) report and tools #jiscssbr

The only model that makes sense is a distributed one: it’s a fundamentally harder problem to bring down a decentralized network, because there isn’t a single point of failure. via benwerd.com Ben's got it about right (http://bit.ly/zn868). I have been thinking down these lines, too, "mesh networks, distributed databases and natural language processing": - More … Continue reading Implications of @benwerd on Twitter DoS and single points of failure