Author: sleslie

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communitiesOfPracticeTheStructureForFutureLearning.html

http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml

link via: Michelle N. Lamberson, PhD
Director, Learning Technology, The University of British Columbia

 

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All this talk about Trackback, Pingback and the like got me thinking more generally about the issue of ‘lnk typing’. There is lots of stuff out there on this concept but a quick google of this term brings up this piece on the work of Randall Triggs and the innovative work he did in the 80s on a taxonomy of link types. – SWL

Visualization is an old pet topic of mine, so I was delighted to be referred to this new weblog from the company XPLANE via my old friend George Por through his ‘Blog of Collective Intelligence’.

“Even sites that don’t support RSS can work with NewsMonster… NewsMonster incorporates an advanced reputation system to prevent spam and discover and inform you of important news… Rate your favorite and least-favorite websites and share ratings with the online community – automatically! “

I haven’t tried this so it is in no way an endorsement, but I started thinking more about reputation management and the blogosphere after reading the interview posted below (and after reading the blow by blow of that ‘dialogue’ between Messrs Wiley and Downes) and so this seemed particularly interesting. – SWL

– via [infoanarchy]

Interview with Henri Poole, former CEO of Linux distributor MandrakeSoftware who is now involved with Affero, an attempt to build a standard system of reputation measurement for the Internet. – SWL

I wasn’t yet regularly using an aggregator when these pieces were first posted in June 2002, so this was new to me (question – does the blogosphere suffer from collective attention-deficit disorder?) I really like the presentation of these accessibility instructions into 30 bite size chunks, and also how he starts off describing 5 different people with accessibility issues and so frames the whole issue is a more immediately personal context. Well worth the read and good advice, which I will endeavor to follow in a blog re-design sometime in the future. – SWL

new ed tech (& webct blog) from someone at UBC

It must be late as I’ve tried to compose responses to 2 or 3 pieces over the last hour and just can’t get any of them to go.

In any case, I’m in uPortal training all next week, then trying to finish off an RFP for a web-services-based inter-institutional registration facilitation system (try saying that 3 times fast!) and then on holiday until May 19. At the speed things are going, I kind of frightened what I might find when I get back – multi-directional typed hyperlinks? CANCORE metadata showing up in my Radip aggregator? free learning objects and a spiffy new open source CMS to use them in? world peace?

(Apart from the joking, does anyone have any thoughts on how any sort of subject-based community that emerges in the blogosphere looks a lot like an ad hoc cohort in an educational institution, if such a thing existed, and why it can be tough to leave once you there, or even to close your darn aggreagtor sometimes!)

Bye for now, Scott.

I’ve been thinking about David Wiley’s post all day now, as I ended up laying in bed last evening contemplating the differences I am experience as a blogger compared to being a member of a discussion forum, mailing list, usenet group or any of the various collaborative communications forums I’ve participated in over the years.

In some sense the answer to David’s questions seem straightforward

– yes, the reason the people he mentions on the list are not the same ones in this ‘conversation’ or community is probably largely because they don’t blog

– no, it’s not surprising, at least not to me, that there are so many groups in such a ‘small’ space because a) I don’t think it’s that small a space, b) they all seem to be coming together anyways (I would guess only 2-3 degrees of separation ‘in real life’ and even less online for everyone he lists and everyone on the edubloggers list George published today)

On the other hand, as I think the responses on David’s site by George and Brian are getting at, there are a lot of real subtle differences that a many people have been trying to get at for the past year or two (