Learning mainly
I’ve been in and out of this topic for a month, ever since the SCoPE discussion finished. I don’t have a coherent view, and whenever I’ve talked about them it’s been more a show and tell and dialogue about our lives and personal habits. Tonight on a chat Leigh referred to them as an ‘ethic’. [...]
Confirmed. Ten minutes ago: 19th October 2007. Access Grid.
Venues: Auckland | Wellington | Christchurch | Dunedin
3.00pm. Snacks provided. 3 brief presentations, and plenty of chatter/feedback and conversation.
FAQ: What is the Access Grid? It’s a room somewhere in the uni with bandwidth to burn. Full duplex video.
How do I register? Details coming soon. Meanwhile, e-mail me. [...]
Gave two talks yesterday.
The new ITAG (IT advisory group) meets once a month for lunch and an informal catch up on various matters at 0ur institution. They invited me in to speak about web 2.0 and benefits (And a guy from the web team to talk for 10 minutes about the other side)
On the TALO [...]
Just found the blogging conference in Brisbane. A sort of unconference. Here is a quote from their page of information about format.
Adapted from the BloggerCon IV Format by David Winer.
This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t have speakers, panels or an audience. We will have discussions and sessions, and each session will [...]
Wow, wordpress 2.3 is nearly out of beta. I think the decision is clear: if you need blogs for your institution, Wordpress multiuser. The question is not too clear for wikis. I’ve been asking this question on the TALO forum: Is there an open source wiki that avoids wiki markup? (and has all the other [...]
I wrote may last post about two hours ago. This was post #3 after my 30 or so days interregnum. I spent a month rejigging some of my habits, getting rid of junk and clearing the decks. Now I’m just catching up with some of the blogs I watch.
After posting and reading, (as well as [...]
Communication channels proliferate.
In the last month or so, first cpSquare created an outpost group in Facebook, and now SCoPE. There is a conversation in cpSquare about Dave Snowden’s quote:
Dave Snowden recently said to Etienne Wenger “If knowledge management had had the tools we have today it would not have needed communities of practice” (I paraphrase). [...]
We have just had our UCTL Open Day, five 30 minute sessions and a keynote from Sandra Wills, the director of CEDIR They are a unit with some similar functions to ours.
Their byline:
Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources
The University of Wollongong is committed to excellence in learning and teaching.
CEDIR facilitates and [...]
Unfortunately, The Blogging challenge came one month too early for me. I had set September as my time to re-emerge into the world of blogging, internet accounts and social software after clearing my mind of this major project – the Online Workshop Toolkit (Hoped to have it sorted by the 31st August) – and [...]