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  • Course 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. Visualizing Participation Currently, I load up students into the neighborhood by clicking on group pages, and then hit the Recent… Continue reading

  • 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 LMS and his personal perspective on why it turned out the way it did, and the crux of… Continue reading

  • Reply to D’Arcy

    D’Arcy Norman’s blog has a great policy which I may go back to soon — you can’t comment on his blog, only trackback to it. So here’s me commenting on his blog. In a recent post, D’Arcy expands on this idea, among others: Any eLearning tool, no matter how openly designed, will eventually become indistinguishable… Continue reading

  • Learning Design Pattern #121: You’re Doing It Wrong

    Had a great lunch today with Michael Berman in Portland, and boy am I glad I got down there. We talked about my recent fascination with the idea of Learning Design Patterns, and more broadly with agile methods in learning design. I mentioned that one thing that was a struggle was getting the pattern at the… Continue reading

  • Learning Design Patterns as an Alternative Model of Course Design

    I’ve discovered Chris Alexander’s work on architecture, and I cannot read it without hearing every line as a statement on problems in course design.  Alexander approaches architecture not through top-down design or bottom-up chaos, but through generative constraints, that is, he begins with the environment and then runs through a “grammar” of building. The design emerges… Continue reading

  • Peak StreamMode

    Bonnie Stewart has a great post over at her TheoryBlog on the state of Twitter. The post attempts to pull together the problems of the New Orality of social media, which seems to have somehow combined the worst aspects of conversation and print: Because lately secondary orality via digital media seems like a pretty nasty,… Continue reading

  • Using Federated Wiki in the Classroom: Getting Started

    This post assumes that you’ve read some other posts on federated wiki. There’s a few dozen on this site if you have not. Click the federated wiki tag and then scroll down to see them all. If you know what federated wiki is, the following description should get you started with federated wiki use in your… Continue reading

  • Copying a Whole Site Is Remarkably Easy In Smallest Federated Wiki

    Operations in Smallest Federated Wiki tend to be page-level — dashboard style site managers have been avoided for the moment. Still, the speed at which operations can be executed makes site-wide stuff pretty easy. This video shows how to copy a small fifteen page site in about a minute. If you think about how long… Continue reading

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  • Plagiarism Derp Reaches Epic Levels

    First there was Buzzfeed, which admittedly plagiarized material: Take that “Faith in Humanity” write-up. Last September, NedHardy.com—“the self-anointed curator of the Internet,” a kind of poor man’s BuzzFeed—posted an item called, “7 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity.” Then, last month, NedHardy posted another piece, “13 Pictures To Help You Restore Your Faith… Continue reading

  • Open Licences and SFW

    David Wiley with a great comment on yesterday’s post: The answer, more or less, is yes. And initially that seems like a dealbreaker.  But here’s the history of the web, from me, condensed. A long time ago very smart people decided that web pages had to all look different, that your stuff would only exist… Continue reading