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cogdogblog
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Disruptive Technology
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Jim Flowers
Learning Circuits
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Online Learning
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Seblogging
Stephen Downes
teachnology
Ten Reasons Why
Tim Lauer
SiT
Weblogg-ed
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A Networked World
headshift moments
mamamusings
tmt, tlt
McGee's Musings
Micah Alpern
Microdoc News
Powazek
Scripting News

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Connectivity
Library Stuff
Mathemagenic
Open Access News
Seb's Open Research
The Shifted Librarian
Unbound Spiral


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Wednesday, March 05, 2003

Weblogs and Community: "...these tools are exciting because they point to the future of online community – a future where everyone has a home of their own, a place where they have control, a private space in an ever-more-complicated virtual community sphere." http://designforcommunity.com/display.cgi/200202182129 Excellent article! Great excerpts can't find the book ('Design for community') in Australia though (might just have to fork out the shipping). 1:10:28 PM    comments   trackback

So why doesn't Blackboard or WebCT or, well, any of them offer effective blogging tools? Lindon Parker writes about the Harvard aggregator site and it seems like this kind of thing would be absolutely spot on as a community area in an LCMS. Painting a picture: -Each individual has a blog with RSS feed (Manilla?) -In setting up a course the facilitator either gets the learners to set up their blogs and then aggregates them or just adds their existing blogs -The 'Announcements' frontpage of the LCMS has an 'institutional' frame and a 'participants' frame which aggregates latest developments. As soon as a learner's logged in they can see what everyone's up to and pursue things as they wish. Gotta have a IM system on the blogs & announcement section as well! Sod discussion boards... the discussion area can be a collaborative blog with different catagories... imagine the K-capture for evaluation / future courses etc! Lindon Parker also reckons that you could have collaborative aggregators where a "class could all get together and decide on the things they thought worth aggregating" which could be pretty cool... although I reckon that as a SIG this would have PLENTY of possibility! 10:09:14 AM    comments   trackback

Nothing to do with the great civil rights leader, James Farmer, but here are some links that are:

Greensboro sit-ins
Reflections
Family (with pictures)


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