January 06, 2009
Thanks and a(nother) tippo to A J Cann for the link (via his soti bookmarks on delicious) to D’arcy Norman’s epigenetics and the institution. This hit me as an approach to conceptualising the relationship between individuals and institutions for a paper I am puzzling over writing, about the utility of participatory media (Web2.0/the social internet) to the support, ...
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January 05, 2009
This post is one small link in a chain started for me by A J Cann in a post on his Emerge blog, The P word, fed from Science of the Invisible that linked to Michael Wesch’s post, Participatory Media Literacy: why it matters, referring to “… Howard Rheingold’s great little article, Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of ...
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January 05, 2009
Since my exchange with A J Cann, about feeding selected posts to the Emerge site, I have started this blog. In it, I have created a number of categories for my posts, such as “Community IT Centre”, and “R&D Projects” and “Emerge”. I wanted to be able to select only those posts that were tagged “Emerge” and feed ...
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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 19, 2008
I am sure all the people in the U&I/JISC Emerge community who keep and read blogs already know about the "Eddies": the annual Edublog awards, but if, like me, you spend too much time under stones down the bottom of the garden, you might have missed it. Our own Graham Attwell and Cristina Costa are hosting an awards party ...
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December 18, 2008
Registration form is at: meeting marks the beginning of the end of the programme and is being held to iron out any last minute issues that projects may have. A prime focus should be on ensuring that you get the best out of your final reports. Other issues will include:how JISC comms can help in the last few ...
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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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December 15, 2008
We have had a very successful day running online dragons' dens. Don't miss this chance to sharpen up your bids this week. Just 4 slots left.Are you or any of your colleagues preparing a bid for one of the following JISC calls?11/08: Call for Institutional Innovation projects in lifelong learning and workforce devel Learning and Teaching Innovation so, ...
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December 08, 2008
I had an interesting onsite conversation through onsite messaging with Alan Cann about how to moderate one's own aggregated output into the Emerge Elgg. There is a difference between a "community" site service like Elgg and what I'll call primary blogging. Emerge is supposed to be a service abetting the formation of a community around an interest in user ...
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December 04, 2008
The edubloggers' meet, first live radio show, and the first dragons' den have been done. These events are all grabbing audio and video outputs of JISC Emerge-related activity, and represent three modes. Edubloggers was pure community building where people introduced themselves around a table : I am nnn from ppp and I blog about x. Any recording was random ...
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