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Comment on Feedbook by One small step for man » Blog Archive » A Global Online Land-Grant University?

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:29:41 +0000

[...] course away from textbooks, and towards learner-collected sets of resources. Dave Cormier’s Feedbook proposes that the course “text” would be assembled from a collection of RSS feeds. This [...]

Comment on Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum by Semi-random thoughts after a talk with Steve Wheeler | Reflections on E-learning Development

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:51:14 +0000

[...] I got all excited by Steve’s botanical metaphors. I liked the idea of rhizomatic learning - Dave Cormier’s paper on the subject looks like a great read so I intend to digest it shortly. It got me thinking about [...]

Comment on Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help by Felix Huang

Felix Huang — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:40:18 +0000

I took a look at the Opensim project after talking to you. This project looks quite promising so far because its development is still very active. If the project goes well, hopefully any web integration can meet the final milestone together with the opensim platform.

Comment on Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help by Justin Clark-Casey

Justin Clark-Casey — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:47:26 +0000

Dave, I can’t help directly since I’m horribly time poor right now (and I don’t think IBM would allow me to anyway), but I am keen to see how you get on, since the area of educational applications for OpenSim is one of my interests.

Off the top of my head, is it not possible to adapt one of the grid oriented web interfaces to a standalone? In might require some extra exposure of OpenSim functionality in sandbox standalone, but I think we’d be happy to look at doing that if we can identify what’s required. Of course, it’s also quite possible that the existing web interfaces aren’t suitable for your needs anyway.

Comment on Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum by Rhizomatic Learning « Colligo: Reflections of a Learning Technologist

Rhizomatic Learning « Colligo: Reflections of a Learning Technologist — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:24:09 +0000

[...] A quick Google Search indicated that the term was was coined a little while ago, and has recently been highlighted by Dave Cormier on his blog, and in particular, in a paper entitled Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum. [...]

Comment on Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help by admin

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:30:45 +0000

It’s a good point Tom, but i’m thinking about it being part of a larger web environment including blogging, video posts, images etc… see http://livingarchives.ca and http://openhabitat.org . MUVEs are still pretty exclusive, and most people will only ever see the ‘recordings’ from those environments. Certainly for the next year or three.

Comment on Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help by Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:56:10 +0000

It doesn’t sound to me like you actually need a content management system at all, but just a web interface for management?

Comment on Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help by Trevor Meister

Trevor Meister — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:52:45 +0000

I have been working in OpenSim for the most part on Tribalnet’s p2p implementation. You host a standalone region on your own computer, but you can publish it so you connect to a central grid that is more like a hub. I just signed up for a webhosting package that will allow me to explore Drupal “in the wild” rather than on my own little home network. I can now begin to explore xml-rpc interaction between Drupal and my opensim region. I am not what would qualify as a “good drupal/opensim” programmer and wouldn’t be able to spearhead an operation such as this, but I would be a better than average grunt as I continue to learn. (I have already bought the books PHP5 and C# and am kind of heading in this direction.) I was wondering if you had contacts with any of the Sloodle developers (Integrating Moodle with SL would likely have required the solution of many similar problems).

Comment on Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum by admin

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:38:42 +0000

Neil,

No need to feel the danger, this paper is heavily informed by the postmodern perspective. I would add to your definition of ‘there is no such thing as truth’ with ‘there is no one Truth that overrides all other truths, things are true (small t) in a given context.

Your own position is a perfect example of that. You say “for me the point of an analogy” and “there seems no point in it”. I can see, from your comments, how this is true for you. There have been several folks who feel that the analogy useful… their truth being different from yours.

No. Student’s collaborating is not it. I’m suggesting that in certain special circumstances the curriculum that the students are studying is created by that collaboration.

Comment on Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum by Neil Canham

Neil Canham — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:19:40 +0000

As a former science teacher with a current interest in virtual worlds and collaboration as well as a passion for education, I got nothing of substance from this. For me the point of an analogy is to help your reader understand your point. If the analogy you choose is outside the expected knowledge of many of your readership such that it then requires it’s own explanation there seems no point to it. Some of the article felt like it was edging dangerously close to the post-modern ‘no such thing as truth’. But I have to confess to not grasping it enough to be sure.

Students should collaborate? Great, of course they should. Is there something more to this?