…I love Tony Hirst! And let there be no confusion, the stuff he is doing at OpenLearn makes me giddy with excitement. Case in point, take a look at the latest developments in the OU Course Spamming saga he and his people have whipped up. I really am lucky to be working when I am, [...]
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This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 3
Published by May 10th, 2008 in e-portfolios and eduglu. 3 CommentsSo, to pick up on parts 1 and 2, part 3 is an examination of some of the uses and possibilities of feed-driven architecture for dealing with the varying ways we might understand a portfolio, which—as Stephen Downes notes here—is in the midst of a pretty significant transformation. A change premised on re-imagining the portfolio [...]
“What we do with WordPress echoes in eternity!”
Published by June 29th, 2007 in wordpress multi-user. 11 CommentsWell, maybe not eternity, but certainly beyond graduation!
Mike Caulfield, my new favorite blogger, has been talking about the value of having students work with a web-based authoring platform that they can actually use after they graduate:
And because the students worked with real tools (and possibly even on real problems) they’d graduate with bankable skills [...]
As we gear up for Faculty Academy 2007, I’d like to throw something out there. Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, recently blogged about how his labor of love with WordPress over the last four years might be re-purposed by numerous media outlets for one of capital’s favorite narratives: the entrepreneurial wunderkind and their [...]
Open, Connected, and Social
Published by April 21st, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 1 CommentD’Arcy Norman has already announced the (MAC) Learning Environments presentation that will take place this Wednesday, April 25, 1:00pm EST (10:00am Pacific, 11:00am Mountain, etc…). D’Arcy, Brian Lamb, and Alan Levine will be re-visiting some of the generative ideas from their 2004 presentation “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” (you can see the archived wiki here) [...]
The Nonce Journal is the handy work of five UMW students -Alissa Bourbonnnais, Alex Cardia, Kanise Carter, Liz Gerber, and Rebecca Parson- from Claudia Emerson’s The Literary Journal class. The project for the entire class was to spend the first half of the semester reading and analyzing the most recent publications from some of [...]
Update: If I wasn’t so self-absorbed, I would have realized much sooner that Andy Rush, our resident multi-media god, has already built UMWTube, something quite similar to a YouTube inspired Drupal site but framed out using Ning. So there is yet another angle to pursue. You can request an invitation to see this site here.
The [...]
I recently discovered an open source project management tool, activeCollab, from Brian Lamb’s del.icio.us feed. As usual, when I follow a breadcrumb at Abject Learning I am not disappointed.
UMW’s Department of Information technology has been using Basecamp sporadically for a little while now, and DTLT has been using it lately to manage the Student Academy [...]
Stewart Mader and John Willinsky separately discussed how we imagine the wiki in new and powerful ways. Stewart Mader did an excellent job of giving an overview of re-conceptualizing the wiki space as a collaborative, distributed publishing platform, while John Willinsky gave a pointed example of how wikis are informing the way his classes create, [...]
Social Software for Learning Environments
Published by February 24th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 2 CommentsD’Arcy Norman, Chris Lott, Sylvia Currie, and Jon Beasley-Murray combined forces examining a wide array of issues facing the integration of social software into the learning environment. At the core of these various discussions was the enigma of community -what makes an effective online community? How do we foster the process of allowing these spaces [...]
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