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cogdogblog
Collaborative Learning
Dale Pike
David Davies
Disruptive Technology
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EduBlog Insights
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elearningpost
elearnspace
Headshift Moments
HomoLudens
Jim Flowers
Learning Circuits
Many 2 Many
Mark Roseman
Online Learning
open-education
Seblogging
Stephen Downes
teachnology
Ten Reasons Why
Tim Lauer
SiT
Weblogg-ed
X-Plana

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A Networked World
headshift moments
mamamusings
tmt, tlt
McGee's Musings
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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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Thursday, July 29, 2004

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a l******* o***** Heh :o) Evan's got a cracking take on learning objects here.. a sertiously good way to promote a bit of discussion... perhaps. [via David] 11:20:31 AM    comments   trackback

Weblog cakes Tom explores a future where webpublishing kicks off: "...To me, weblogs are an evolutionary step, a repair in the collaborative fabric of the web, which has been disrupted by commercialism, firewalls, worms and innumerable design decisions by browser developers and others. Weblogs are "progress," to use a problematic 20th century term. It is the same web, only better. I've never heard of anyone who used weblog software very long and decided they'd rather go back to keeping a homepage with FrontPage. The web is only going to grow. Its use is only going to grow in schools. And weblogs and content management systems will be seen as the best way to use the web. It might take a while, but it is inevitable. The only thing to fear are really shitty future implementations built on WebCT, BlackBoard and the like." [Tuttle SVC] [[emphasis mine]] Which is very very very relevant. Am I, for example, going to be sobbing into my Rooibos in a few years time as our executive proudly declares the inclusion of Wiki / Weblog functionality into a major LMS vendor? With no open source community, no open development, no spin offs, no flexibility and so prohibitively expensive that everything else is pushed to the side? Will it look like the woeful bulletin boards out there now (which hardly meet the definition of the tool in their proprietary constraining functionless existence), will it be as dodgy as the claim an eportfolio CTO tried to get by me (I don't think he had done a whole heap of research on who he was meeting) that his software was 'just fine' for blogging, no worries? Am I barking up the wrong tree crying out for this stuff? Is it the tools that I want or the philosophical position and environment in which stuff like this can happen? Are weblogs just the topping on the cake whose recipe we should really be thinking about? Or are they the ingredients? 10:47:31 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
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