Faviki social bookmarking based on emergent (?) ontology dBwiki

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

Is Twitter “Not a Conversational Platform”? @cheeky_geeky – O’Reilly Radar

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

ITTE: education is fluid, non-linear, iterative (chaos innit?) #falt09 #altc2009

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

Two 72-hour txt sims are mini ARGs #altc2009 #falt09

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

Dave Sowden Caboodles in a portal #falt09 #altc2009

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

Mail lists and more open social software

Chris Rust sent me a link. He said: An Innocuous list you might want to give to the new staff course? Even better, you might get them to discuss adding their own?! Best wishes Chris --------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: TP Msg. #961 The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes From:    "Rick Reis" [deleted] Date:    Tue, September … Continue reading Mail lists and more open social software

Sustaining support

Further to the last post, Sustaining Communities, the tension in higher education is between: open educational dialogue and institutional pragmatics (a 1000 mile question?). Open educational dialogue is concerned with networks or communities for information sharing, which take a user-centred approach to learning and design for learning on all scales. These networks make use of … Continue reading Sustaining support

Sustaining Communities @GrahamAttwell

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