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edtechpost edtechpost about archives presentations « older loading newer » my interview with the cogdog 30oct07 http://cogdogblog.com/conversations/scott-leslie.mp3 as part of the cogdog’s recent tour down under, he interviewed a number of blog colleagues for quotable quotes. i just found the one i did with him now and listened to it for the first time (what, like this is a revealing admission, from a blogger?) i must admit i’m actually kind of proud how it turned out - i must have had my coffee that day and been slightly less sleep-deprived than usual, because this is probably as coherent a statement of what i think and what i am interested in right now as i’ve produced. thanks for the great questions alan, and for helping me frame these scattered thoughts a little better. - swl tags: cogdog, mashups, network effects, openness, permeability podcast filed under the rest. |2 comments your favourite “loosely coupled teaching” example? 29oct07 as part of my new ongoing efforts to collect and re-present ‘best practice’ examples of what i’ll call “loosely coupled teaching” i am really interested to hear from readers their single best example of a course (ideally one reachable on the public internet) taught using contemporary social software/web 2.0 tools outside a course management system. what have you seen that really made you sit up and say ‘wow! it works!’ (and before anyone starts, i am asking for ‘course‘ examples in the context of formal higher education…i know, i know, but that is the audience and context i’m working in right now.) if you had one chance, less than 5 minutes, to convince a colleague to give up their cms addiction and teach out in the open using general web tools, what is the best example you can point them at to convince them? - swl tags: loosely coupled teaching social learning filed under the rest. |18 comments zero-install remote screen sharing apps? 29oct07 both as someone who supports online learning and as someone who supports remote users of various software services, i have a keen interest in screen-sharing software and techniques, as these are often the quickest way to diagnose and troubleshoot problems. now there are a huge number of good solutions that let you share your own desktop/screen with remote users without requiring them to install any software. i’ve written before about my ongoing fondness for webdialogs unyte, and i’ve had good success too with glance (though it is not free). in addition, you can find good write-ups from robin good and a more recent writeup from online tech tips on tools that make it very simple to share your own screen. the piece i am missing, though, is a simple way to help users having trouble share their screen with me. and simple is the operative word here, ideally meaning no install or other configuration on their end. of the various solutions mentioned in these articles, skyfex seems the only one that may fit that bill (though only for windows, and its website makes me very nervous). of the others crossloop seems promising because it’s install is pretty painless, but the idea is to find a solution that does not burden already troubled users with additional downloads and installs. it may be that such a beast does not exist. i can imagine a host of technical reasons this may be so. i am also not overly keen on the idea of bringing the user into a system like adobe connect/breeze or webex and getting them to share from within there, as the overhead seems just as bad. but before i give up i thought i’d ask you folks - what’s the best way to help remote users share their screen with you, and have you found an easy, no-install way to do this? - swl tags: remote, screen sharing, support unyte filed under the rest. |12 comments teaching with technology idea exchange 2008 23oct07 http://www.ttix.org/ got an email today from someone at utah valley state college asking me if i would place an ad here on edtechpost for their upcoming teaching with technology idea exchange conference. i told them that i do not accept advertising, but given that the conference is free i told them i would at least point to it in a post. so if you are down utah-ways june 5-6, 2008, consider dropping by. i know from experience there are some very smart people at uvsc (as well as the sponsoring utah education network) and if the conference archives are anything to go on, it should be worthwhile. - swl tags: conference filed under the rest. |0 comments suggestions for best sources on teaching with loosely coupled tools 19oct07 so, if you’ll induldge me again, i have another question as a follow up to the last one. what is your favourite source for finding new examples of people teaching online with loosely coupled tools? is there a blogger you already follow who regularly posts great examples from the field? or is there a trove of examples already identified that the rest of us might benefit from. if you have specific examples to point to of people teaching with web 2.0 tools or in a loosely coupled way, i would love to hear about those too, but right now i am trying to gather regular sources/feeds, people who regularly note best practice examples. suggestions truly welcome - swl tags: elearning 2.0, feeds, loosely coupled, sources, teaching web 2.0 filed under the rest. |2 comments what would help you make better technology choices? 15oct07 so i need your help. for about 5 years i worked on the edutools project with my friend and colleague bruce landon. whether you liked the site or hated it (there seemed to be hundreds lined up on both sides of the fence) ultimately our goal and motivation was to help people make better decisions around educational technology. in the edutools project, the effort to help people make better choices was around the idea of ‘rational decision making.’ while i think the site was successful in many ways, it had its fair share of problems too. it didn’t offer hands-on access to the technology (it never tried to). its “feature-centric” approach meant that people wanting to take a task or goal-centric approach (e.g. how well does this technology assist with teaching) were always frustrated. (and that approach played its part in reifying the concept of “course management systems.” shudder. i will keep paying for that one for a long time.) it had a central review model and was hard to keep up to date. you can likely tell me many other problems. that’s ok, i’m not offended. what i am more interested in, though, is your opinion on what helps you make better (educational) technology choices? whether it be through edutools or some other venue, i expect to continue trying to help people make better educational technology choices, and so before i even start down that road again i’m interested in any feedback on what might help or gaps that might be filled. a few of the ideas that have come up in conversation with others: ed tech ’sandboxes’ - inspired by the umw folks, a service that lets educators ‘try before they buy’ at little or no cost (either effort or monetary) a more community driven review site as per http://www.weblogmatrix.org/ or http://www.wikimatrix.org/ extending an existing social network (i am loathe to create yet another one!) to help people connect with existing peer adopters/practitioners ‘database’ of best practice examples that are classified in multiple ways (discipline, technology, learning approach) to help people to see what can be done clearninghouse wiki focused on issues to help individual faculty first make (and then defend) choices on loosely coupled (non-cms) technologies but i am really interested to hear from you what would help you make better choices? operators are standing by… - swl tags: choice, decision making, edtech, locus of control reviews filed under the rest. |12 comments cas’ifying mediawiki 1.9.3 09oct07 http://solr.bccampus.ca/wiki/index.php/casify_this_mediawiki in case it proves useful to anyone, i wanted to point out this short write-up by my colleague victor chen on how he got our new mediawiki installation working with our central authentication service account. we wanted to use mediawiki to power this new wiki aimed at collecting, documenting and creating cms interoperability best practices in b.c. we couldn’t get the solution described in this helpful write-up about case western’s efforts to work, but he very quickly got the described approach to function instead. - swl tags: mediawiki cas integration php filed under the rest. |1 comment real social learning or “i promise, i’m not a modernist, really” 03oct07 most nights for the past few weeks i’ve been working away from my home office in a local coffee shop with free wifi. partly i find it easier to work on ‘after-hours’ projects out of the house, away from the family, but in truth part of the reason i like working here is that it is full of students. unlike people located directly on a campus, i don’t see students everyday, so it still gives me a buzz, especially because i am seeing them where and when they are learning. everywhere i look there are groups of 2, 3 and 4 students with textbooks and laptops open, working, talking, studying, together. it brings back really good memories too; i was the type of learner who liked to talk (no kidding!) and i was fortunate to fall in with a gang of 5 or 6 others in first year (at the time we were ‘the smokers’) who met every sunday afternoon to go over our philosophy work. what some might have taken for arguing (and sure, there was some of that) was really peer teaching, and as i sit here in the café and look around, i see it everywhere. i got a double dose of this recently down in logan. i guess working in your basement really makes you notice and appreciate it. i feel really lucky to have a large and supportive online network of friends and colleagues who i interact with regularly on a daily basis. there’s very little i don’t feel i can share anymore (just ask them, they’ll tell you – king of ‘too much information’ and we learn together everyday. yet over the space of 4 or 5 conversations in logan, especially in two where i talked with justin and joel from the cosl team, my thinking and learning on a huge spectrum of issues expanded more than it had in a year of banging my head against the keyboard in my basement. while i was jamming with them (because that’s how i think of it, improvisation, the only music i know how to play) it felt like three or four foundational chunks just fell into place, thunk, so that what had previously been something i’d heard and processed at one level, became deep understanding, knowledge, internalized so that it is now part of my rapid decision making structure. i’m sure you know the feeling too. if only the other 3 had known had far gone i was by the end of the trip, they would never have let me drive the mini-van back to salt lake city! the experience hardly seems noteworthy these days; you can’t swing a cat online without hitting someone stressing the ‘social’ nature of learning, how it’s conversational. but as someone who actually does most of his learning and interaction online, the gap between the dynamism of the peer learning and conceptual jamming i’m talking about and the kinds of interactions we mostly see online still seem huge. maybe this is the way it will always be. maybe this is the way it should be. but i kind of doubt it. i talked with alan on skype today for about 45 minutes; that was productive and creative, but still, it paled compared to the times we’ve been together and let the ideas flow. this isn’t meant as a lament so much as a clarion call and pointing to opportunity (and also just a warm up exercise for the 1000 words i need to crank out tonight and also i guess, as a small bit of resistance to what sometimes feel like people trying to make the current paucity of conversational interaction into an asset of online communications. i’m not arguing that it has to be the same, and indeed the different forms of communication and interaction we’re inventing and discovering online throw uncritical notions of ‘real life’ presence and identity into doubt in productive ways. but it still feels like we’ve got a long way to go to catch up with the learning that 4 people “in flow” around the table can achieve. oy vey, who knew i was such a modernist?! - swl tags: conversation, peer learning social filed under the rest. |10 comments mocsl tools and focusing on user empowerment 28sep07 http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/mocsl/ so day 3 at open ed 2007 is underway. dj rss just rocked the mic with a free form exposition on openness, free tools, mashups and remix culture. the conference has been really worthwhile on a number of levels - opening my mind to how the needs for localization might be reconciled with the ongoing divergence of needs between leanrers from developed and developing world, and opening my heart to the moral imperative that is oer. but there was one low point for me, which was learning that funding for cosl’s “making open content support learning” toolset had not been renewed in this current round of funding. funders will fund what they fund, not much i can do about that; i just wanted to write this post so that i could say publicly what i’ve said privately to a number of folks here, which is that i am really sad to hear about this, because i think these tools and this effort were really promising and important, because they focus on individual learner empowerment in the networked world of oer resources, something you can probably tell from the short movie on client-side tools that i released yesterday, i believe to be an important aspect of improving the chances of oer content efforts to effect learning across the internet as a whole. funded or not, i plan to continue pointing people to these tools, evangelizing them and their like, and finding my own ways to continue working on these kinds of learner-centric tools. and hopefully this post is understood in the spirit it was written, simply the honest words of an often impolitic blogger . - swl tags: career suicide, client side, firefox, greasemonkey, learners opened2007 filed under the rest. |4 comments web2fordev conference 27sep07 http://www.web2fordev.net/ this post is mostly for other opened 2007 participants who will hopefully see it if technorati ever gets its act together and finds my posts. a note of thanks is due to ismael peña-lópez who is conference blogging this meeting currently taking place right now in rome. it seemed like ti might be of some interest to the oer producers at opened 2007 given how many of the conversations here have ended up around the topic of bringing the oers to the users where they are. this link will help you catch up on news coming out of that conference. - swl tags: conference, development opened2007 filed under the rest. |1 comment technologies for learning, thinking and collaborating tags adoption annotation authoring bccampus blackboard blogs bookmarking cms collaboration conference copyright creative commons del.icio.us edutools elearning2.0 eportfolio evaluation federation folksonomy google ims interoperability lcms learning design learning objects library lom lor mashups metadata moodle music northern voice oer open source quotes repository reusability rss sakai search social learning standards synchronous tags video web services web2.0 webct wiki active discussions zero-install remote screen sharing apps? 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