How Many Forums in a PD Community Space

What should you have on a professional development site to support a PD community? This kind of community is a strange entity: they are NOT usually in existance purely for their own interest, their own needs and purposes; they have a sponsor, who has great plans for their lives. How much automony do you give

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Tagging: fusing wikis and blogs

Reblogging: Tags being applied to wiki pages and then grouped in blog like entities, susceptible to change later on. A few bugs in their software. But the idea is fascinating.

Yet another search tool

Clusty, which aspires to group searches by topic.

Try this to see what it says on tagging:

http://clusty.com/search?query=tagging

Gone Home

We had some visitors from the US staying, the first people I have actually met online and then met up with later and stayed with . . . Lousy image I know . . . (Just 50 metres from where there is the worst parking ticket guy in the South Island – at Christchurch Airport)

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Tagging and the Semantic Web . .

I now understand more about the issues around Learning Object Repositories (LOR), tagging and the need for an ontology. It’s to classify, then seach for, items in a LOR. And then to do various more tricky things – which I may post on later.

Interestingly enough there is a discussion on Eduforge.

The “living taxonomy”

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Retreat II

This was time out, originally supposed to be time out with a dozen or so others, but dipped down to 2. Noel and me at Sister Evelyn’s retreat house. This overlooks miles and miles of beach and sea, curving out of sight towards Kaikoura.

I spent some time regularly just watching the sea. This is

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Etienne Wenger seminars

Well, the four events in New Zealand have been and gone.

Polytech in Dunedin, Evening Adult Education talk and day General CoP Workshop in Christchurch, Ministry of Education workshop in Wellington. Quite transformative. Having this time with Etienne has helped make his books and writings come alive. . . .

I did compile a readings

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Semantic Web

We are pondering how to manage material inside StudentNet/Interact, our College community support platform. Basically we are experimenting with a primitive form of tagging. It turns out tagging is an issue at the moment. Furl. Del.icio.us. Flickr.

How do you sort, find, classify, manage lots of data, like web pages?

People have been talking about

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