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Thursday, October 16, 2003

Elearnspace's thoughts on communities / courses "...In my opinion, the solution lies in well-designed communities and networks." [elearnspace blog] Some good dot points here. Am enjoying this discussion! 11:13:48 AM    comments   trackback

Self-organized working? Silly me, forgot about Seb Fielder's Blogtalk article "Personal Webpublishing as a reflective conversational tool for self-organized learning". Also tho' check out this latest post Edublogging: getting started and what the future may be. "...So, here we are coming along with these Webpublishing tools and practices and tell these good folks: "Oh, forget about anything you have learned about formal instructional contexts. What you really want to do is putting half-digested thoughts, unpolished products, stories of your struggles and mistakes, and your personal questions, worries and the occasional insight on the World Wide Web, for anyone to see. " This is a major perturbation (to use a term from Piaget) for quite a few people. And being a rather robust mature human organism, adult learners surely hold a bunch of coping strategies to fight such perturbation off and to keep there current system running. What can we really do to promote more self-teaching and self-organized learning? Can personal Webpublishing practices support a development into this direction? Or do we need to treat some "attitudes and sub-skills" as explicit pre-requisites for turning personal Webpublishing into a tool for personally meaningul learning?" [Sebastian Fiedler Seblogging News] Good questions! [The anal in me asks "When I'm quoting someone should I italicize them, indent them, just "" them or wot?"] 11:09:09 AM    comments   trackback

Blogs: the stickiness factor (.pdf). Hurrah, final version of Lilia's blogtalk paper :o) And some reflection. 10:55:53 AM    comments   trackback

Why it's not working [Ahhh, the perils of my aggregator... I wish it'd display posts in reverse order (i.e. oldest ones first) then this wouldn't happen... sending Radio wishes....] Bill answers my question about current uses of weblog in education... "why don't they get used more?" And, I think, may have hit several nails on the head. Lordy, go read it... here are a few samples: "Not too many students ever did all that much with paper-and-pen journals" [Although I would say that that's a lot to do with audience... whenever my students shard their journals - with someone other than me - or kept open email group journals... different things happened!] "Weblogs are no easier than journals or lab notebooks to keep and to do well. Two-thirds of people give them up, I think because a good weblog is a hard thing to make, and because it can consume a lot of hours. The technology involved with most weblog tools (well, ALL weblog tools) is very distracting" [!] ... thanks for some amazing thoughts Bill, much appreciated! 10:41:49 AM    comments   trackback

Individual & Social Expression Bill in keeping the what's working thread alive says asks "how well does weblogging, a solitary activity, support outcomes in which it is essential to involve other people and to leverage their experience? It is a challenge to carry on a distributed dialog via blog, and not everyone is up to it." and goes on to add.. "If we're talking about children in primary school, or even in high school, will the long-term outcomes be better if they learn to interact directly with each other, or if they learn to interact by commenting on each other's weblog entries (assuming that they find the latter as engaging as dealing with other kids, an assumption I very much doubt would be valid)." [Bill Brandon: eLearning Entrepreneur] And all I can say is 'absolutely!' Well... unsurprisingly I've got a bit more to say that that really :o) I think that both Bill and Greg are very much hitting a sweet spot when they refer to this tendency towards 'weblogs are everything and everything are weblogs', and that needs to be addressed. Take your adult distance learner... I reckon that social publishing could play an enormous part in their learning. Take your primary school kid, I reckon it could play a very small (but still significant) part. I don't think that weblogs are a substitution or a replacement for face-to-face (I mean, f2f I could NEVER have the network I do now, or express & communicate in the same way) I think they're an addittion / alternative... more 'lucidity' to follow ;o) 10:31:00 AM    comments   trackback

Ahem... "I realize that nothing I say matters to anyone else on the entire planet. My opinions are useless and unfocused.  I am an expert in nothing.  I know nothing.  I am confused about almost everything..." [via scoble] 10:11:46 AM    comments   trackback

DEOS-L: Blackboard, WebCT and Moodle Here's a very interesting DEOS-L post talking about WebCT, BlackBoard & Moodle... guess which comes out on top... [via Serious Instructional Technology] 9:41:59 AM    comments   trackback

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