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Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

  • You’re already out there

    This just in: July 25, 2007 (Computerworld) — Millions of documents, both government and private, containing sensitive and sometimes classified information are floating about freely on file sharing networks after being inadvertently exposed by individuals downloading P2P software on systems that held the data, members of a House committee were told yesterday. Among the documents Continue reading

  • In Which I Meet Our (Other) Allies

    So, I’ve just stumbled into a gold mine. Via an inbound link from Stephen Downes, I’ve discovered that much of what I’ve been calling an inverted LMS has been called elsewhere a PLE (personal learning environment): Helen Barrett receives an email from Mike Caulfield describing an Inverted LMS, which turns out to be the PLE, Continue reading

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  • It’s not just Experts vs. Amateurs. It’s Experts vs. Experts in Something Else.

    So there’s not much subtlety in a recent comment on Jon Udell’s call to experiment with local weather data and look for trends. After reading Jon’s piece on using Many Eyes to determine local trends, Brendan Lane Larson, a Weather Informaticist, writes: Your vague “we” combined with the demonstration of the Many Eyes site trivializes Continue reading

  • Send Bloggers

    One of the absolutely consistent features of website development (at least in my neck of the woods) is that storytelling problems are miscast as technology platform problems. Here’s a typical example. I’m currently working with a department to move them to a third party vendor, and in demonstrating a sample site one of the possible Continue reading

  • Marc Andreessen Supports the Inverted LMS (sort of)

    This is fascinating, to me at least. Marc (are we allowed to call him Marca?) came late to blogging, but he’s clearly making up for lost time and talking to the right people. But what I noted in his recent post was how much his view of the larger web (via Sifry) matches exactly what Continue reading

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  • Twittergram Rock: Last Time You Were Here

    So, this was impromptu, but if twitter history is ever written I want credit for writing the first 40 second song explicitly for twittergram. http://tinyurl.com/2s8oee I’ll get better. It’s a new format for me. Continue reading

  • Inverted LMS Revisited: The various uses of containers

    Gardner Writes has a good critique of of my Inverted LMS post, which raises a number of important issues. So let’s say first I am both manifesto-prone and conversation-addicted, and those things generally equal out. This is conversation Mike speaking. The question Gardner poses is whether “student-centered” swings too far in the other direction: But Continue reading

  • ISA, HASA, and the Inverted LMS

    I’ve been out of linguistics for so long that I don’t know if this is still the case, but it used to be there was a distinction in some branches of cognitive linguistics between what programmers might recognize as ISA and HASA relations. The idea is this: a giraffe “isa” animal. The zoo “hasa” giraffe. Continue reading

  • Offline thinking

    I get a wave of nostalgia when I read a John LeCarre novel. Not for the simplicity of Cold War politics or for spy novels written with a real sense of literary style, but for the physicality of the world George Smiley inhabits. Trying to figure out a particular thorny problem, he grabs a notebook, Continue reading

  • The Humanity of Loose Systems

    One of our graphic designers returned from Paris the other day with the most extraordinary set of photographs. Her and I had had a long talk before she went about how the concept of “brand” was overrated in visual design, frequently doing more harm than good. We both agreed our website could tolerate considerably more Continue reading