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

  • The Fedwiki User Innovation Toolkit

    Tim Klapdor has a good explanation of what the FedWiki Happening was and how it went on his site. For those that want to understand what all the fuss is about, that’s maybe a good place to start. He also has one of the better lines of the week: There are some idiosyncrasies to learn, Continue reading

  • Federated Wiki, Slow Cooperation, and a Kindle Parable

    There’s a really excellent post over at Frances Bell’s blog talking about problems with forking in fedwiki — and really about the meanings associated with different types of revisions and decisions of people.  And there’s a lot there to comment on, but the piece I take away is that we haven’t reduced the stress of Continue reading

  • Fedwiki Happening: I Don’t Know How to Start, So Let’s Just Type

    I don’t know how to start talking about the Fedwiki Happening publicly, to people who have not been a part of it. I’m worried that to people who haven’t experienced it it will be about as exciting and comprehensible as hearing someone narrate a dream, or an acid trip. Which, I suppose, makes it very Continue reading

  • Helping the Right Ideas Find One Another (FEDWIKI HAPPENING)

    I’ve talked a bunch about Federated Wiki, and the idea a system like it could reinvent the way we talk on the we talk on the web, replacing our Twitter streams of reaction porn with something more substantive, connected, and iterative. So, imposing on people I knew across the intertubes, I decided to put together Continue reading

  • Wikiality

    I suppose I shouldn’t blog while down about the state of humanity. But I do many things I shouldn’t do. I was just reading through some news reports of the continued misunderstanding of faculty on what Wikipedia is, how it works, and why it matters. I doubt that you’d be able to get a teaching Continue reading

  • Steal the Package / Idea Mining

    One thing I’ve learned from my deep dive into wiki is that wiki is most powerful when seen as a collection of *ideas*. Those ideas might be stories, examples, software patterns, chord progressions, whatever. But when treated as a repository of ideas instead of a collection of publications wiki gains a certain type of power. Continue reading

  • Turning a Stream into a Lake

    Did this this morning, it was fun. Higher Ed policy wonk Bryce McKibben makes statement on Twitter. We have an exchange, I write it up in fedwiki and link him to it for review. Here’s a screenshot of the fedwiki page: Bryce replies yes, it’s fairly accurate, and suggests an additional link to a think Continue reading

  • Shorter Federated Wiki for TL;DRers

    In getting ready to present federated wiki at OpenEd and I’ve edited  the “Arthur Clarke” scenario down to seven minutes and fifteen seconds, and crunched it all together. The set up for this video is this: Arthur Clarke has some insights in 1950 about global positioning systems. He doesn’t realize that other people are working Continue reading

  • Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration

    by Mike Caulfield. Keynote delivered at NWACC 11/6/2014. Part 1: Sputnik I’m going to start this keynote by stealing a story from Steven Johnson, a historian of technology. Johnson uses the invention of GPS as a case study in how innovation happens. It’s his favorite story and he’s told it everywhere from a TED Talk Continue reading

  • A Kinder, Gentler Attention Economy

    I should be prepping for the NWACC keynote. — it’s in a couple hours. But of course in going over my notes and reading some recent posts (particularly this one by Bonnie Powers) I suddenly doubt the route I’ve chosen into my subject (which is, of course, federated wiki). Why? Because I talk about the Continue reading