Martha Groom of the University of Washington Bothell, has had her students do major edits / create new articles on Wikipedia as part of an assignment. For her students, the Wikipedia experiment was “transformative,” and students’ writing online proved better than the average undergrad research paper. Knowing their work was headed for the Web, not…
Month: November 2007
Mind Mapping.
Web 2.0 mind mapping tools came up at a meeting today (following a discussion on Portableapps – including the fact that you can install Freemind to a USB stick – as long as it’s got JRE on). Someone mentioned MindMeister, which I’ve used before. I knew I’d had a play with something else, though wasn’t…
Should I start to twitter?
I can very much agree with the first part of Marshall Kilpatrick’s review of the World’s Most Popular Twitter Clients. “I thought it sounded stupid.” He’s now changed his mind, and has reviewed a range of different twitter clients. I’ve yet to be convinced, as it’s just another thing to have to do. Perhaps part…
Audio and Online Learning.
Cathy Moore has created a (partially) narrated presentation highlighting some of the points that Kulhmann has made in regard to the use of Audio enhanced presentations for online learners. They both make valuable points; I know that I am definitely someone who reads ahead of the presenter. I think there are infact two things that…
Audio bits and bobs.
EveryZing – attempts to analyse the audio in online audio and video to enable searching (Technical details are outlined in SpeechTechMag). I’ve just tried searching “News” for “Peter Tobin” – who has cropped up a lot in the UK news in the past few days. I didn’t get any hits, though when I extended this…
Popular News – facebook.
I’ve been wandering around Facebook – trying to see what I can see on the two networks that I’m part of. I’m registered with Uni. Portsmouth (thanks to working here), and Durham – as an alumni. I’m not entirely sure how the Durham network works, as I’ve got one friend who is also there –…
Blogging Parent Letter
Clay Burrell (his name is really quite hidden on the site – luckily his commenters knew who he was), has shared a letter he uses to send home with his students for blogging. They’re 17, so, in theory “mature”, but clearly still under 18. While it clearly isn’t appropriate in its current form, the sort…
Social bookmarking links – BBC
I’ve just noticed that all the articles on the BBC now allow you to create Social bookmarking links. They have 5 to choose from -del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Facebook and Stumbleupon….
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.
Vol 13 Issue 1 is just out. It includes several articles on Social Networking. There are several that have interesting looking titles, such as one looking at IM and disruption in the workplace, email flaming, what (if any) differences there are between users and non-users of Social Networking sites, aspects of privacy – and several…
20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles
Stan Schroder, on Mashable, looks at aggregation of Social Networks. He quotes Kottke discussing different social networks: since all of them require different credentials to log in, theyre just adding to the noise 20 different tools are listed, most, though not all, are websites. Not that many seem to include Facebook in their set of…