Archive for October, 2006
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
There have been some really solid objections coming around to my idea of emergent training communities (see attached paper from NMC poster session). Some people have asked me how communities can ever get started. Others have suggested that a deus ex machina is pretty much necessary in order to get ...
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
IN the chatroom at the nmc online conference and we were looking for a new word that drops some of the old baggage around plagiarism etc... A fine chatter came up with a great word - linktribute. As the first official linktribute I would like to linktribute the the coiner ...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
We had a great chat with some of the folks at ISTE about the DOPA issue on Friday(Amongst other things). They agreed with what I understand is the general community opinion, "if we don't teach them safe social networking in schools, who will?" There is a significant literacy gap between ...
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
One of the most interesting images you'll see today is Josie Fraser's Leiarth. It's the art that tells the tale of personalization that i think of as one of the core value of what I've been calling 'Emergent Training Communities'. Her separation of the different 'kinds' of personalization and focus ...
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
A break from all the craziness of patents and rhizomes. I've been playing around with geosense.net and thinking that there are about a gazillion uses for it. Not that I'm a huge believer that geography should eat up massive amounts of time in the school day. More that I think ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
I've been thinking about how to design online textbooks that are intrinsically collaborative, can be 'authoratative' where necessary and don't revolve around a central, linear narrative. It's a concept, this lack of linear narrative, that is coming up more and more. People are talking about having websites, groups, communities... all ...
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