Thomas Vander Wal looks at the idea of a broad folksonomy (e.g. Del.icio.us) – where lots of people tag things – many using the same tags, some different tags, and a narrow folksonomy (e.g. Flickr), where a single person applies the tags. Ties in well with the work we’ve been doing with the MSc eLearning…
Month: December 2005
Issues re. Students and blogs.
Student Suspended over Blog Posts A potentially worrying report from Marquette University (US). A student has been suspended for the comments he’s made in a blog. However, if read this report, you’ll see that he’s commented about un-named staff & students, whereas other anonymous students have named staff in their complaints; equally, there must be…
first impressions based on tag clouds
apophenia has a nice look at tags. I’ve tried to use tags in the past – though have only tagged my own blog. By looking at a general tag clouds for Live Journal, Technorati & Del.icio.us, the markedly differing interests of the users can be seen….
Virtual Canuck ยป Educational Social Overlay Networks An interesting first post in a blog. Terry Anderson is looking at the way in which personal webspace (Blogs, portfolios etc) & educational webspace (e.g. libraries, VLEs etc) can & should be combined. He looks at the idea of a Social overlay network – so looking in particular…
Writely
I’ve already mentioned “Writely” though I have to confess that though I’d mentioned it previously, I’d not really tested it. Having read Brian Lamb’s review of it, I thought I’d really better check it out. I’ve set up an account, and am using it now, hopefully in the process of creating this particular post. Though…
The $100 Laptop- vaporware?
Teemu Leinonen takes a step back & looks at the practicalities of the $100 laptop. While I’ve been in favour of it in general & have reported on the progress quite a lot here, that was, in no small part, due to the technological innovations. I had thought about the practical implications quite a lot,…
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web This looks interesting. I’ve not yet read it, but, I’m wondering if things like the Doomsday Project are going to be covered ……
Blogorrhea and blogs vs cellulose
Doug Johnson I think that I’ve definitely got “Blogorrhea” today. (And, suspect that I’ve had “Blogstipation” over the past few weeks!)…
BBC NEWS | Technology | UN net summit diary: Day three
BBC NEWS | Technology | UN net summit diary: Day three A little late in posting this, it’s been bookmarked for a while! The main reasons for posting this particular post are that as well as a summary of the final day at the World Summit on Information Society, there are links to other related…
Internet – Friend or Foe of Learning
Terraviva , an online edition of TerraViva, have a report from the recent World Summit on the Information Society, looking at the reaction of some Chilean schools to the “problems” introduced by allowing children to Word process homework (plagiarism being the main issue). Other teachers are commenting on the fact that while computers have been…