Dave Cormier from the University of PEI, invited me to record EDTechTalk #60 last Sunday. Dave and his colleague Jeff Lebow have been recording chats with assorted EdTech types for […]
You are browsing archives for
Category: educational social software
Social software applications in formal education.
An Educator discovers his SecondLife
In this post I relate my experiences exploring LindenLab’s SecondLife with a view to assessing their use in formal educational contexts. I’ve long been interested in the use of the […]
Blogging as Academic Publication
This post reflects my first four month experience of using this Blog (the Virtual Canuck) for the type of pseudo-academic writing that seems to characterize the 12 postings I’ve made […]
When Push Comes to Pull
If you’re like me you will likely never be famous (or perhaps astute) enough to be invited to the Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology. However, that doesn’t mean […]
Affinity Groups in Self-paced Online Lea...
Attrition rates are a concern in all forms of education and have been especially problematic for some forms of online learning and distance education. When cohort groups work together through […]
Educational Social Software and the Hidd...
In 2001 I wrote a book chapter entitled Revealing the hidden curriculum of e-learning. In this article I noted that “The hidden curriculum is a term that seems to be […]
Innovators Dilemma re LMS
The folks at Scripting News pointed me to an interesting article from Business Week, in which Peter Burrows interviews Clayton Christensen. Christensen is the Harvard prof most famous for his […]
PLE's versus LMS: Are PLEs ready for Pri
I’ve been trying to get my head around the viability of moving educational programming from institutionally centered Learning Management Systems (LMS) systems, or even institutionally owned and controlled educational social […]
Teaching a Distance education course usi...
Inspired by the insightful posting by Ulises Mejias “teaching social software using social software, I would like to share my own experiences with a course I taught this fall in […]
Collaborative Learning Activities Using ...
Collaborative Learning Activities Using Social Software Tools The Donna Cameron and I have been working on a set of learning activities that are designed for use by self-paced (continuous enrolment) […]