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Monday, July 19, 2004

Hangleton Weblogs Wow! Congratulations to Hangleton in the UK on winning a major award, THE major award, for their weblogs in schools project! "Hangleton Community Junior School Weblogs - the first blogging junior school in the UK" Congratulations to to Peter Ford and the Weblogs4Schools initiative. 10:04:45 PM    comments   trackback

Creation of a Learning Landscape: Weblogging and Social Networking in the Context of E-Portfolios This looks like an excellent paper! Thank Stephen and Jeremy [whose eportfolio links bring all the educational technologists to the yard ;o] "The e-portfolio is for many a recognised tool employed for a multitude of purposes: employment; assessment; life-long learning; professional development; accreditation of prior learning. The number of institutions adopting some type of e-portfolio system has risen dramatically over the past two years. The e-portfolio is altering learning pedagogy and for some creating a truly learner-centric knowledge environment. Countless institutions are pushing ahead setting up systems to act as e-portfolios, others have grand visions; every citizen in the EU will have an e-portfolio by 2010. Still questions remain: how can we promote student engagement in the process? In the pursuit of assessment data adopted by a positivist model are we missing an opportunity to support deep learning? This short report will explore one idea which could help address the problem of learner engagement creating a scenario where students want to use the system therefore be at the centre of the whole e-portfolio process and in turn, through engagement, benefit from the deep learning potential...." 9:53:33 PM    comments   trackback

Wikis or Blogs for Community Development George makes an interesting point in referring to an interesting paper on communities of practice (especially as I've had my head stuck in communities of inquiry for a fair bit now!) He says, when thinking about how communities are best formed that "wikis, not blogs, should be the tools of choice. Blogs are personal and can be linked. Wikis are community conversations"but to be honest after thinking about this quite a bit myself recently I've come up with a different perspective entirely. When I started off writing (in the paper I'll publish here as soon as it's got smoothed off) about exactly what technologies best facilitated the development of communities of inquiry (by facilitating social, cognitive and teacher presence as seen in the Garrison, Anderson and Archer Diagram on the right) it occurred to me that presence doesn't really come through being together... it comes from personal empowerment which assists the learner projecting themselves as a 'real' person, conversations between individuals (who are representing themselves as individuals) and the kind of organic development of structure and processes which individual presence in a social context allows. In short, wikis may be a great way to collaboratively produce content, strike that, they are the BEST way, but in terms of developing 'community' I'm not so sure. We're all guests on a Wiki, we all have little control over our identity and contextual development, it's not as bad as the horrific anonymity of (most) discussion boards because a wiki is flexible enough to be able to develop character and add personal details (like the folks over at community wiki are doing) but we don't have that individual empowerment, context and opportunity for expression that blogs give us. Whaddya reckon? 9:37:00 PM    comments   trackback

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

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