I was writing an “essay” that referenced and quoted from other entries on this same site. I decided to call this sort of entry an excursion, since it provided a guided tour through a selected part of the topography of this site.
There is no clear standard for judging what constitutes a virtual learning environment. The term has been used to brand everything from a set of collaborative desktop tools to a fully immersive virtual world. Perhaps, then, we should choose a different starting point, and concentrate on asking questions that will allow us to decide whether a specific self-described VLE will be suitable for our needs or not.
Crabgrass advertises itself as “a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. Crabgrass is the next generation of social software”.
A four-day seminar in Helsinki, for students on the European epedagogy masters course.
On the BBC news web site Michael Geist (who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law) has written an…
Charlene Li at Forrester Research has written a report with Josh Bernoff, Remy Fiorentino, Sarah Glass entitled Social Technographics® Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy.
Google doesn’t have a social networking site, and there has been a lot of talk recently about what they would do about this. Yesterday Google announced their intentions, and it was a swerve of astounding cleverness.
Some passing thoughts about the choices we have made to use social software as the basis of our own administration.
Many people have a fear about “where” their data is. The questions that they should be worried about, in my opinion, are not about who currently owns the physical machines where the zeroes and ones that represent their data are stored, but rather who has control over the right to look at, or distribute that data.
Automattic, the people who make WP, have introduced an extraordinarily interesting new theme that is available both on Wordpress.com’s free hosting services, and as a downloadable file for people who want to use it on their own sites.
This morning Reidar Wasenius is back on Facebook. The management has apparently become convinced that it is better with him in than out.
There are crucial differences between MySpace and Bebo on the one hand, and Facebook on the other. Although the three are often lumped together, I have come to think that Facebook has very different possibilities – ones which could be usefully used in educational contexts, and particularly as a background platform for immersive learning.
In the kind of ideal world where you could do everything that you wanted, even if they were apparently contradictory, one of the things I would have been doing over the weekend is attending the State of Play conference in New York.
Yesterday I alerted everyone on who reads the WE in e-pedagogy∞ blog to the fact that this site was (finally) online. Ralf∞ responded almost immediately, asking where the trackback features were. This made me remember something interesting, so I went off to track it down.
I have just spent a week at the 21st Annual WCET conference, where Steve Bronack and I did an afternoon workshop on virtual worlds and education. The workshop was co-sponsored by Innovate, which sadly closed its doors to…
