The LMS in Historical Perspective
Is it ironic that I’m posting on this topic partially to avoid the mundane process of setting up Blackboard trainings for a bit longer? Probably not. In any case, Jared Stein has a post up about the...
View ArticleConvivial Tools and Connected Courses
Excellent, must-read post from the connected courses conversation. Key grafs (for me at least): I have a lot of questions about whether any of the web-based tools we are using actually fit the mold of...
View ArticleCourse Management Workflow in Federated Wiki
One of the persistent issues in using a networked learning approach to things is the workflow. I’m a couple weeks into using Federated Wiki in my edtech course, and I thought I’d share my methods....
View ArticleMaybe the reason people don’t use LMS collaboration tools is the tools are...
The video below, entitled “Why the Blackboard Wiki Is Not a Wiki”, shows how amazingly boneheaded Blackboard’s wiki tool design is. At the heart of the boneheadedness? The core idea of a wiki is that...
View ArticleQuality of Input
In technosolutionist circles, the belief is that given the right algorithm we can make use of the massive amounts of information on the web to predict and solve problems. To them, the recent failure of...
View ArticleFluid Structure
Writing a song is an interesting experience. Most people who are musically inclined have it in them to write a snatch of melody or put together a few chords, but that’s when the real work begins. You...
View ArticleEasier
“It is important to me, for example, that as a body of work grows it becomes even more easy to contribute to it, not less. Wikipedia, for all its accomplishments, has not achieved this dynamic.” A line...
View ArticleWhat Iterative Writing Looks Like (and why it’s important)
I’ve been talking a lot about our fascination with “StreamMode”, the current dominant mode of social media. StreamMode is the approach to organizing your thoughts as a history, integrated primarily as...
View ArticleTL521 Is Rocking it on Federated Wiki
TL 521 has had a lot of struggles as a class. It’s a hybrid class, with half of it at observations at far flung schools, many of them scheduled overlapping other student commitments. The wiki we are...
View ArticleGamergate
I mentioned a couple times that I don’t know what to do when something like GamerGate comes up. It’s horrific, absolutely. It’s corrosive to a general faith in humanity and a reminder that INTERNET...
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