Monday, January 6, 2003
Yes! I hope this lives up to the hype!
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Now that is coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!
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A Great piece of software gets better! Love it!!!
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"Use the blog network to promote the service and enable users of the service to self-organize. It all adds up to a recipe for recombinant growth"
I would hope that the disruptivetechnology Forum for edbloggers et al. would not so much be associated with me but be seen as another service to provide a node of convergance for edubloggers. I would hope that I can get suggestions for new forum categories and forums, moderators who have a passion for a topic(s) and others who want to use a public or private forum board to used for educational stretching purposes. I have no problems sharing site admin status if it means that blogging gets pushed foward.
Disruptive Technology Forum
http://www.disruptivetechnology.org/phpBB2/index.php
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Trust is a central ingredient in community building. Steve Gillmor explains its role in blogspace in a few well-chosen words:
blogs have nurtured a growing circle of trust, the mulch for building directories of digital identity based on expertise, communication skills, and critical intangibles -- sense of humor, ethical infrastructure, shared values, and contributed resources.
I've written about trust in blogspace, here and there. Continuous relationships of the kind we see in blogs sometimes make it feel like a village and this seems to help build (generalized) trust. One thing I'm wondering about is whether we'll see our circles of empathy grow along with our circles of trust. That could have long-ranging effects.
[Seb's Open Research]
If there is no trust then there is no community. Steve Gillmore is just one of my favorite writers, just keeps on writing about stuff that matters. In a school or school district, if there is no trust you can have no real school reform. The situation isn't helped by politicians who most likely couldn't pass the present state based high stakes high school exams. For edubloggers as a group to move forward there has also to be an amount of trust and no ego tripping.
8:52:53 AM # comment []
What would it take for a Radio or manila site to behave like a Wiki?
Wiki is, in Ward's original description:
The simplest online database that could possibly work.
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
This means exposing your Radio weblog, or perhaps a category of your weblog, to outside editing.
I'm still having trouble architecting this. Radio makes static pages while wiki is dynamic; so Manila seems a closer fit. Wiki Design Principles.
Do you have wiki experience? Chime in, please. 
[a klog apart's Blue Sky Radio]
[a klog apart]
Would this help teachers and others who are tech shy jump on 'digital paper' I imagine a wiki may be a lot faster at rendering than some manila pages laden with other content
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This is real short article on blogging.
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Lilia quotes from Senge et al.'s Dance of Change:
The most effective local leaders seem to be those who learn to "live in two worlds" -- the world of their innovative subculture and the world of the mainstream culture of the larger organisation. They realise that innovative practices need "incubators" to develop and that, to some degree, these new practices must be protected. But they also value the knowledge developed through experience that resides in the mainstream culture. They seek to cultivate both, and they do so by developing their own abilities to be effective in both environments.
In a sense they become "bicultural", just like someone who lives in two countries with very different cultures. They become adept at crossing the numerous, often subtle, cultural divides between the two worlds. [...] Perhaps most important, they continually develop their awareness of the boundaries between these different worlds, knowing when they are in which domain and what it requires of them.
Lyn called this kind of people community straddlers, and I picked up the term in my short Kuro5hin piece Online Communities and the Future of Culture. Thanks to the Net it's becoming easier every day to cross boundaries, and I believe this will accelerate change.
By the way, Lilia did terrific blogging about learning and blog evangelization throughout December.
[Seb's Open Research]
Very good read! Working on blogging,doing my day job, managing a log distance marriage while at the same time raising one of my daughters all seem to be a challenge to balance and attend to each as they are supposed to. I also call it living on the edge.
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We are now at beta 7 and rolling!
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