I have been waiting for a couple of years now for a work that successfully ties together the emerging social software/web 2.0 scene with established theory and practice of distance […]
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Social software applications in formal education.
Blogging inside the Garden Wall
I am certainly not the first to ponder the relative merits of blogging inside or outside of education’s closed garden walls (see Bill Ives Is Blogging Inside the Firewall an […]
Learning with Networks
A recent paper by Jon Dron has stimulated my thinking about social learning from two perspectives. First is renewed appreciation for the value of a loosely knit networks as distinct […]
Slides and Reflections on the Keynote Tr...
I’ve been on the road (well make that airplane, train and ‘coach’) for most of the past 6 weeks having gratefully responded to offers from colleagues to present keynote talks […]
Modelling Participation in Virtual Commu...
The key to effectively and efficiently supporting, instigating and maintaining a critical mass of participation in online communities has long been illusively beyond my grasp. (see my Catching Tumbleweeds posting). […]
Online End of Class Christmas Party
This year’s version of Athabasca’s University Masters in Distance education course “Emerging Technologies in Distance Education” ended with our now traditional online party. The gala event (beginning on Elluminate) began […]
Catching Tumbleweeds
Many of the sites I’ve been involved with over they years have gracefully (and some not so gracefully) atrophied away – usually through lack of posting/input or contribution. Even my […]
on 3 types of blogs and bounded communit...
Nancy White has done a great series of postings where she creates a simple taxonomy of three types of blogs – single blog centric, topic centric and community centric.
Elluminate based demonstration of Me2u s...
This afternoon I recorded a 10 minute demonstration of the Me2u system which is an instance of elgg.net set of social software tools. These tools are being piloted tested at […]
The people formerly known as students an...
The Net has created a context in which students are being transformed into empowered learners. These learners demand quality learning experiences- they know what learning is and what learning they […]