April 2009
2 posts
April 20 Discussion: Support
1. As I was reading Nutbeam’s article on health literacies I was thinking of literacies on a broad scale. He focuses on health literacies, but I was correlating that to digital literacies—a topic of conversation we all talk about in our field. AS an assessment person, I am actually quite fond of his model, with a few general changes. He ties different stages of literacy to levels of...
Social Presence Discussion
1. As I was reading through the articles for this week’s discussion, I kept asking myself a question: How is “social presence” (technological) different that “identity (technological)? And can a social presence, like a identity, be stolen?
2. In an organization, who (or what group) is responsible for creating a social presence? It begs to discuss—can there be a collaborative social presence?
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March 2009
6 posts
March 30 discussion: Reputation and trust
1. While I was reading David & Pinch’s Six Degrees of Reputation, I found I was critiquing the study. How did they define “prominent authors?” why did they just look at Amazon for duplicated text—the WWW is a big place and an editor could easily copy text from another site. And then, their results said that 5% of reviews were not original. “So,” I ask myself, “five percent? That isn’t...
The Cult of the Amateur →
March 23 discussion: participation
1) Both Lee, Chen & Jiang and Efimova view lurkers in a different light than many traditional scholars. Instead of seeing lurkers as passive learners, they view them as active. Efimova defines lurking as “peripheral participation”—a form of informal learning. Lee, Chen, & Jiang assert that because lurkers log in as much as non-lurkers that they are actively leaning. While I agree...
March 9 discussion: relationships in social...
1) Cummings, Butler, and Kraut end their article with the statement: “using the Internet to build social relationships results in social interaction that is wanting, at least when it is explicitly compared to the standards of face-to-face and telephone communication, to social relationships that are primarily conducted offline, and to traditional small groups.” I cannot help but wonder what the...
Twitter in Wall Street Journal →
Technology Showcase: Micro-blogging
Overview of Micro-blogging
Micro-blogging is a recent social phenomena. Often likened to status update on other social media sites, micro-blogging consists of brief (usually limited to 140 characters or less) updates. While, ideally, these updates are meaningful, often updates are nothing more than short statements about one’s dealings.
Micro-blogging is a technology that is social for several...
February 2009
10 posts
How to present when people are Twittering →
Facebook Scam →
Discussion for Feb 23
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Design by Community →
What to do?
Since we missed class last week, i am wondering if we will just move onto the next topic and again choose 3-4 readings (including 1 that is ‘!’)? I am assuming then that we will be talking about blogs as well as technology behavior?
Discussion for Feb 16
For the reading this week I chose, randomly, 4 readings from the folder. One had the exclamation point, The Structure and Evolution of Blogspace. I also read, The Revolution will not be Blogged, Scholars Who Blog, and Blogging Thoughts. At first I thought I would talk about the components of (Web)blogs since that seemed to be a unifying theme throughout the articles I selected. However, as I...
Discussion Questions for Feb 9
I first read Curtis and Lawson and was stopped in my tracks when they mention the “distinction between cooperative and collaborative learning.” These are terms that have always been relatively interchangeable for me. As I continued to read the assignments for the week, I kept coming back to this statement.
1) First of all, I come back to the class discussion we had about collaborative...
Five Years of Facebook →
Learning through Social Media →
This is a prezi.com presentation a colleague did on social media and learning. Definitely worth a look.
Discussion Questions for Feb 2, 2009
Question #1
The apparently fascinating example of the cottage cheese portion control learning is mentioned by both Resnick and Young. I’m not sure how I could avoid creating a question around this incident. Both authors use the exact same example to examine learning in two different ways. Resnick describes the learning as an interaction between the environment and the learner. The physical...
January 2009
7 posts
“Skill set of the future = embracing abiguity”
– Elizabeth Davis (lizbdavis) via twitter
Notes on 26 Jan 2009 Class
I am posting the notes from last week. While I have everyone’s questions (thanks to everyone who sent them over to me), simply copying and pasting them would take the entire 4 pages! So, if you need to see the questions, specifically, check individual’s blog. I have decided to “theme” out the questions and discussion we had after all the clerical information. If I got anything wrong, someone...
Pew on Social Media: It's Bigger Than you Think! →
Learning Contract
LEARNING CONTRACT
1. My Personal History of Learning, Social Computing
You learned now for _30____ years.
How do you learn best?
Actively engaging the topics—discussion and application
What was your worst schooling (in formal school) experience? What made it the worst?
Every time someone tries to stand up front and yammer—what made it worse was when no time was left for questions!
What (if...
Social Computing/Learning
These first readings were very provoking. Working very closely with the Emerging technology Group in ITaP, I find that a lot of these reading feed directly into the work they are doing. One of my main focuses in my job is to make sure that we adequately assess the pedagogical impact of given technologies—a HUGE challenge in the work of 2.0. The assessment must be done efficiently and quickly...
