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

  • 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

  • The Web is Broken and We Should Fix It

    Via @roundtrip, this conversation from July: There’s actually a pretty simple alternative to the current web. In federated wiki, when you find a page you like, you curate it to your own server (which may even be running on your laptop). That forms part of a named-content system, and if later that page disappears at Continue reading

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  • The Part of Wiki Culture the Classroom Forgot

    If you look at most treatments of wiki in the classroom, people talk about collaboration, group projects, easy publishing, revision control. All of these are important. But one important element of what makes a wiki a wiki has been underutilized. Wikis not only introduced the editable page to users, but the idea of page-creating links. (In Continue reading

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