Mike Caulfield
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Student Curation in Smallest Federated Wiki
The video below shows what the process of collaboration looks like from the student end of SFW. Note that in many ways it seems like pretty standard collaboration, with two major differences. First, the student edits their own copy of pages instead of editing communal pages. This solves an awful lot of problems that I’ll… Continue reading
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Letting Lots of People Host Your Stuff In Their Collections Is a Good Survival Strategy
Just now I clicked on link to an article on Jef Raskin (designer of the Macintosh interface) and received the above result. The article was an interview with him just before he died in 2005, and I was interested on his take on modern interface. Instead it’s just more link rot. Of course, my… Continue reading
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The Answer to Project-based Work in MOOCs is Federation
Matt Crosslin, who’s a pretty smart guy, has an article in the EduGeek Journal about dual-layer MOOCs. This is an idea I’ve been pursuing for quite some time, and studied for a bit but never quite was able to pull together. What even readers of this blog may not realize is that its been this… Continue reading
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The Hidden History of Online Learning
I’m starting up a federated wiki on the “Hidden History of Online Learning” to attempt to demonstrate to what the experience is like. If any readers of his blog would like to participate, I’m willing to set up a federated wiki for you on my S3 instance. I’ve already set sites up for Audrey Watters… Continue reading
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Smallest Federated Wiki as an Alternate Vision of the Web
The web is not going away. And you’ll probably never see anyone in your immediate family ever uttering the phrase “Smallest Federated Wiki”. But after three weeks of using Smallest Federated Wiki, a reimagining of the wiki (and really, of the web) by wiki inventor Ward Cunningham and a cadre of incredibly talented coders, I’m… Continue reading
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Dokuwiki Sychronization Tool (Screencast). Too, too good.
Dokuwiki Sychronization Tool (Screencast). Too, too good. This is pretty neat, and is going to make things easier for me. Continue reading
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Why the Comprehensive Attribution Statement Makes Sense
The other day I was pointed via a tweet by David Wiley to the Comprehensive Attribution Statement (CAS) that Lumen uses. The CAS is part of Lumen’s “attribution architecture”, which is to say it provides a standard way to cite content sources. In short, it’s a sort of endnote format for remixed content. Here’s the… Continue reading
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The Wrong Robots, Illustrated
A while back I wrote a post that ended with this graf: Calls for efficiency in education are fine, and talk about affordability and social justice is critical. But by the time that teaching — one of the hardest jobs to automate — is significantly automated we will be at the end of the robo-revolution, not the… Continue reading
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We had a different system once. It worked pretty well.
Slideshare has been good to me. Outside my surprise Latvian Top 40 hit, my “Slidecasts” (PowerPoints plus audio overlay) rank as some of my more popular productions. If the Slideshare analytics are to be believed, my combined presentations on Water 106 (I did a bunch) have been viewed collectively over 4,000 times. My presentation… Continue reading
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Google+ will die, because Google already owns the one lifestream that matters.
So one of my non-edtech tech predictions in January was that the OS-based lifestream would kill the web-based mega-service, discussed most clearly in “Revenge of the OS”, but also in the slightly later article titled “The OS-based Lifestream Will Kill the Web-based Mega-Service”. Well, the end of the year came early in 2014, because this… Continue reading
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