Richard Macmanus gives an overview of e-learning. Though the title is “e-learning2.0” – he does also mention tools like Blackboard – and is fairly dismissive, seeing them as clunky, and offering tools that not all students and teachers want. While I agree that the traditional VLEs can be clunky, I’m not sure that I’d agree…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Blogs as PLEs
James Farmer gives a presentation from the HigherEd Conference. He makes several good points, starting with the current situation that many users are in, they have WebCT or Blackboard as an existing system. One point he raises, which is often overlooked I think when people compare WebCT etc., with Blogs & a more personal setting….
Bulgaria visit.
I’m currently in Bulgaria at the moment; visiting the Technical University of Sofia. I gave a presentation today, looking at eLearning and Web 2.0. I’m not sure, though, that I got quite the right level, as few students had used blogs/ MySpace / etc – though several had used Wikipedia & YouTube. That’s when I…
Blogs and learning professionals.
Mark Berthelemy writes about a workshop he ran, looking at Blogs and RSS for Corporate learning. One of his groups created a diagram which, while it looks at learning professionals needs for a blog, has many points that can apply directly to students – in particular the “very personal thing” and “not one size fits…
Web 2.0: Where's it all going .
Broadcasting House had an interesting discussion this Sunday, looking at how things are changing. They had Andrew Keen – who is pretty vocal in his antipathy towards blogs, RSS and podcasts – seeing it as killing culture. (The differences in the straplines on the US & UK books is interesting. US: “how today’s internet is…
Social Computing
Though I don’t generally read it, Slashdot has a good post about Social Computing. The comments are Slashdots usual range – the odd few gems in amongst the self opinionated drivel… however, the links that the first poster gives are useful. Jeremy Zawodny re-asked the “What is Web 2.0?” question and got a good range…
Some Reasons Why I Nearly Quit Blogging
No, not me … (yet!), but Jason Kaneshiro He’s makes several points, ones that I think that we can all identify with. The first point “Nobody reads my blog” is an interesting point. When I first started my blog, I wasn’t really expecting anyone to read it, I’d decided to use it for my own…
Setting up Communities – pros and Cons.
Konrad Glogowski looks at some of the issues surrounding setting up communities – and whether or not it is worth joining some of them (e.g. School 2.0 etc on Ning). I think that now I, like Konrad, would be “beyond” needing that sort of support, I’ve found people that I like to read. However, were…
Citing blog postings.
Yesterday I tried to install a plugin that would allow the creation of citation notes for each post that I’d created. I’ve now removed it for a couple of reasons: In most academic writing, the citations at the end of the piece are for items that are included, not about the item itself. If people…
Citing Blog postings
At the moment, I’ve been trying to work out how to best cite blog posts. I’ve got a few bibliographic tools – EndNote which is the “standard” one. That’s reasonably OK – the drawbacks being that the database resides on my work networked drive – but I can access that drive from most places with…