Interesting post by Michael Feldstein on a graduate thesis by Fernanda Bertini Viegas titled Revealing individual and collective pasts: Visualization of online social archives. I haven’t read the thesis yet, but Michael uses some of the higher-level points and applies them to online teaching. This one particularly caught my eye:
A picture is worth […]
0 Comments
There’s a thoughtful article about learning platforms by Martin Owen over at Futurelab’s Flux blog.
In it he discusses the issues that VLE’s are incredibly constraining and set up neo-Fordist practices of education.
At worst the Learning Platform mentality is about tracking, delivery, assessment, recording… it is a production line, sausage machine vision of education. […]
0 Comments
Yesterday, we made available for download the upcoming version of Omnium Software under an open source license.
The code is still in beta, so it’s only has a small set of the functionality that is planned for the final 4.0 release.
For more details you can visit the Omnium Open website.
2 Comments
Prof. Mike Wesch from Kansas State University’s Digital Ethnography project posted the above video to YouTube, which is clear explanation of what Web 2.0 is all about.
I have to say I hate the term Web 2.0 as it is really just the Web (indeed the early Internet before the Web) ‘done properly’ both in terms […]
0 Comments
One of Omnium’s collaborators, Prof. Curt Bonk from Indiana University just blogged a very interesting post called A Quick 30 Writing Tips for the Start of an Academic Career (although I notice the permalink has 20 tips in the title - he must have run away with himself).
Curt is perhaps one of the most prolific […]
2 Comments
Home
Contact
Subscribe via RSS