Scott Leslie and his colleague Bruce Langdon have crafted an excellent review of the promise and practice of social software use in both formal and informal learning. The 27 page […]
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Social software applications in formal education.
Online Blended Learning
With all the buzz about blended learning coming from our campus based colleagues, it got me thinking about the value of “blended learning” in distance and online courses. I realize […]
Ego, object-centric or adhoc educational...
In a very interesting post titled Social Network Transitions, Fred Stutzman discusses the often lemming-like move of the masses from one social site to another. Of particular interest is Fred’s […]
Naming aggregations
David Snowden in an interesting post titled Aggregative or emergent identity? Rethinking Communities (thanks for the pointer Stephen Downes ) argues that we need more discussion on the aggregations of […]
Passing through Elgg
On the train yesterday, through the beautiful fall colored Swiss countryside, I was delightfully surprised to speed through the small town of Elgg – It is located between Zurich and […]
The joys of re-entering data!
Here at Athabasca University we are finally getting serious about ELGG and bringing our instance (Me2U) inside the single signon set of apps we provide to all staff and students […]
Lack of Identity in SecondLife
I’m tempted to make this post just another in a growing list of whines from the edublog community about what I don’t like about SecondLife. I could talk about the […]
groups networks and collectives – more!
Scott Wilson notes some concerns with the “lack of clarity” between the three entities of the Many that Jon Dron and I have been discussing and blogging about. An educational […]
Is collective the right name?
Jon Dron and I were pleased to see Stephen Downes’ comments on our proposed “Model of the Many“. The model focuses on the communication among the many at three levels […]
On Groups, Networks and Collectives
Jon Dron and I have been having fun developing a paper for ELearn in which we’ve been wrestling with the distinctions between three granularities of social software. In the process […]