January 09, 2009
Link love: This post builds on the case study I contributed to the Eduserv workshop on Digital Identities at the British Library today. Everyone's case studies are lodged over at the Pattern Language Network site, along with Yishay's Slidedeck pattern language tutorial on writing a case study. It also moves forward some observations I made in my ...
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January 05, 2009
The Rhizome project has been helping to organise the Eduserv Digital Identity event which is being held at the British Library on 8 January 2009. Full details of the event are available here. But in brief, the approach for the day is to run a patterns workshop with the help of the Planet project, using a defined ...
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January 04, 2009
from: stevenw 7 hours agoWhat are realistic design goals for future online learning transactions and online environments in a Web 2.0. A talk given at the University of Leicester, UK, Learning Futures Seminar, 19 November 2008.Tags: web2.0 design learning future mooc ...
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December 24, 2008
In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. Of course I welcome critical feedback about ...
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December 18, 2008
Its the Edublog Awards 2008! Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating the vibrancy of blog and social media practice to support learning. Voting is still open across this years 16 categories, and every vote still counts since most of the category ...
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November 16, 2008
It's great to see so many projects syndicating their web and blog content over to the site - it means that the community can share and connect in one handy place. Some of the feeds coming over are restricted however, meaning that people have to click through to the original site to view the entire post. I'd like to ...
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November 08, 2008
I was recently challenged with running a series of events inside Second Life for the JISC Innovating eLearning Conference. These were carefully paced to include a couple of orientation sessions for new avatars, a tour and an evening social event (a ‘fashion show’ as it turned out). For me, I was surprised to find that the biggest challenge ...
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November 06, 2008
Once again from a runway near you ... the catwalk event of the year. Dare you not be there?What: JISC innovating elearning conference social eveningWhere: Emerge Island 7pm UK time, 6/11/08 Bring big ...
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October 29, 2008
What does digital identity mean to you? Do you care? As more of our lives, from personal to professional activities, find their way online how do we cope with managing our digital presence(s)? Can we ever keep the 'personal' separate from 'professional' when tools and services mash-up our online identities in ways that are beyond our control? The Rhizome project, funded by Eduserv, is ...
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October 29, 2008
'In design, one plus one equals three or sometimes more.'Josef Albers (1969)'Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.'Herbert Simon (1969)We make design decisions all of the time and Second Life offers particular design challenges that demand us to address not only our teaching approaches but also space, architecture and aesthetics. ...
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