Archive for May, 2007
Three lies about social software
From the blog of JP Rangaswami.
Shortish post about 3 viewpoints of social software (Social software causes groupthink and herd behaviour, Social software is full of inaccuracies and downright lies and Social software destroys privacy), each in turn addressed by JP. The first aspect looks at the wisdom of crowds being akin to group think and [...]
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Wiki, Don’t Lose That Number
By Chris O’Neal
Tiny but useful on using wikis. Couple of good ideas in the list presented including: “Have students use a wiki space to plan the details of a field trip to make it as educationally fulfilling as possible.”
A great many examples are also provided by readers comments (blogging at its best):
For example here’s some [...]
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How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community
By Cory Doctorow
Good article on how you might control abusive members (aka trolls) in online forums. Worth reading if you intend to use the class discussion or group forums facilities in your module websites. The article also touches on the notion of Bloggers Code of Conduct which was proposed by Tim O’Reilly in the wake [...]
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YouTube = TeacherTube
Couple of articles relating to video upload and sharing for education purposes.
The first is a very brief article on youTube which mentions the possible learning teaching benefits.
A Teacher’s Tour of YouTube
By Chris O’Neal
“One critical issue to keep in mind when sharing and discussing these videos with your students is media literacy, including general Internet reliability. [...]
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Talking to Ward Cunningham about wiki
By Giles Turnbull.
Old(ish) post detailing a conversation with Ward Cunningham, who is credited with implementing the first wiki. Very brief and worth noting on how they overcame the problem of a persistant abusive poster. this relates as to how the wikis are looked after by so called soft security - a community of housekeepers and [...]
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How Do People Interact with Blogs?
From the blog of Tony Karrer.
I very nearly didn’t post this since it will only appeal to those interested in certain aspects of blogs and namely whether the comments facility attached to a single blog entry can constitute a true conversation or a series of monologues. There are also some questions asked on how people [...]
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From YouTube to YouNiversity
From the blog of Henry Jenkins.
Highly interesting post of the possibility of social networks and knowledge sharing/choice/generation in the response to the need to the individual may or should lead universities to adopt likewise approaches towards education. It’s good read so please forgive the amount of quotes!
On the current context of social network and knowledge [...]
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Virtual worlds and the ongoing rise of Second Life
First off a brief BBC news report on the worth of virtual worlds.
“More than 10 million people will subscribe to MMOGs by 2011, and many millions more will play online games driven by other payment schemes, such as advertising and virtual purchases, the report predicted.”
MMOGs: massively multiplayer online games. e-learning is increasingly focusing in this [...]
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Wikipedia Cofounder Launches Citizendium
By Jennifer LeClaire
Brief update on the ongoing saga of data authenticity vs user freedom (and the notion of the expert) as it applies to wikipedia (and wikis in general).
“”The modest success of our pilot project shows that there is hope that we can correct exactly the sort of abuses that people demonize Web 2.0 for. [...]
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Blogs turn 10
Happy birthday to blogs. Couple of articles detailing the history of blogs together with significant bench marks and news events.
Blogs turn 10
Blogs turn 10 - who’s the father?
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