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Teach to Learn. From Stephen, Van B. Weigel's "Teach to Learn - The Next Big Thing": "For those taking notes, lectures may be poorly suited to the task of learning, but not for the person giving the lecture. A tremendous amount of learning takes place in preparing for and giving a lecture." Indeed... and [occasionally ;o] in webpublishing! [incorporated subversion]4:26:12 PM 
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NMC 2004: Small Technologies Loosely Joined: "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control". Most excellent... rock along to the Small Pieces Loosely Joined wiki to participate in the development of and (if you're up for it) the actual 'presentation' of Small Technologies Loosely Joined: "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control"... the latest Lamb, Levine and Norman production! The last one was good... darn good, this looks like it's going to be better! The task, as I see it, is to take a position (or contribute to a range of positions) on whether decentralization or centralization is the way to go in these educational technology-dominated age. Please don't anyone say 'both'... that's too obvious... join me, instead, on a quest to out these power-hungry, fearful, soulless, bean-counting, mechanistic control freaks for what they really are ;o) A city is not a tree and neither are wee! Will that get me fired? Should I invite my boss along? Here's the Downes Meta-Blog (no meta RSS link tho) ... I have subscribed to an RSS feed of recent changes to the wiki and hope to not be as disappointed as I was by my last wiki RSS subscription... 'tis a shame they don't have individual page feeds or email though../. butyacan'thaveevereything! [incorporated subversion]4:24:40 PM
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A polymath in an age of specialists.  Earlier this month, Suw Charman wrote a great essay on her struggles as a polymath. Don't miss the comments and trackbacks, especially this connect-the-dots entry on the unpredictable emergence of learning by Julian Elvé.Update: Suw also just came out with an excellent in-depth piece on the Free Culture Audiobook Project in which she was a participant. [Seb's Open Research] 4:23:56 PM
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Welcome, Bill!.  Bill Ives is a new blogger but an experienced knowledge management consultant with a background in educational psychology. Here are a couple recent posts by him that I found especially interesting:
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Technorati explained: basics, uses, and issues. Mike Rowehl has a strong writeup on the Technorati conversation tracking service. It’s not just a tool for geeks. Especially with the much more participatory nature of “the media” in general, it seems to be serving a critical role in gathering information about how your message is making it out into the public. No matter if your message is a technical discussion of how Atom requests should work or information about a new product release.[Seb's Open Research] 4:22:20 PM
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Welcome, Nancy!.  Woo-friggin-hoo! Long-time online facilitation expert Nancy White has finally started her own weblog (did she hear my plea?). The online community toolkit that she’s been building for years is chock-full of great material, which I suppose she’ll do us the pleasure of introducing bit by bit.
A recent post reports on an experiment I’d been meaning to try but had yet to find the right conditions for: having group of chat participants listen the same music while chatting - much as would happen at a party - as a means of creating a shared atmosphere and giving participants a better sense of togetherness. Apparently it turned out very well… I’ll really have to try it. Webjay could make it quite easy.
This post also appears on channel social software [Seb's Open Research] 4:21:19 PM
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Less is More: Designing an Online Course - R. Thomas Berner, DEOS News. A couple of years ago the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a long article about distance education. The article focused on an instructor in meteorology who seemed chained to his computer because of his promise to answer all posts within 24 hours. The [Online Learning Update] 4:19:16 PM
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