Keywords: conferences, social software, teaching and learning
October 2005
October 12, 2005
I'm interested in knowing if there are any good academic conferences upcoming that deal with social software in the classroom? I'm specifically interested in higher ed...
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October 27, 2005
I've stumbled across a few more social software citations spaces:
citeulike
and
connotea
I like the idea behind these a lot; as a junior researcher, sometimes it can be difficult to know where to get started when you are venturing into a new intellectual arena. I wonder, though, whether we're likely to take these seriously as stand alones? I can see if we created something like thefacebook for faculty, that might work better; so sharing citations was part of a greater community of faculty and grad students, rather than a destination all its own.
Thoughts?
citeulike
and
connotea
I like the idea behind these a lot; as a junior researcher, sometimes it can be difficult to know where to get started when you are venturing into a new intellectual arena. I wonder, though, whether we're likely to take these seriously as stand alones? I can see if we created something like thefacebook for faculty, that might work better; so sharing citations was part of a greater community of faculty and grad students, rather than a destination all its own.
Thoughts?
Keywords: blogs, citations, references, research, rss, social software
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Enhanced podcasting seems almost too good to be true. It allows you to synch images and hyperlinks with audio files and deliver it all in a nice little podcast bundle. Does anyone else remember when Macromedia wanted hundreds of bucks for a personal license of Breeze or Flash to do this?
This seems to me to be particularly important for distance learning and blended classes, yes?
MAKE: magazine has a tutorial on making enhanced podcasts. It requires you to edit XML. I've found a WYSIWYG editor for the Mac called podcastmaker. Does anyone know of a WYSIWYG for the PC that produces .m4a files ready for serving?
This seems to me to be particularly important for distance learning and blended classes, yes?
MAKE: magazine has a tutorial on making enhanced podcasts. It requires you to edit XML. I've found a WYSIWYG editor for the Mac called podcastmaker. Does anyone know of a WYSIWYG for the PC that produces .m4a files ready for serving?
Keywords: blended learning, blogs, distance learning, enhanced podcast, podcast, rss, social software
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October 28, 2005
Interestingly, UNM has decided to ban thefaceboook.com because of security concerns. It's an interesting framing of the issue, and speaks to the very heart of the blurring of the lines between social networking spaces and teaching and learning. As we try to leverage these environments to get at esoteric student interests in the "long-tail", are we threatening to lose the core of what we do? Where is the proper balance between formal and informal learning in higher education?
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