Social Software and more…

I just found out about Using Wiki in Education, the wiki-based book via the blog Using Wiki in Education. This looks like a wonderful resource. It must have been available for three weeks by now and I’m wondering how I could miss it up to now.

As far as I could discover up to now, two chapters of the wiki-book are free and you can access the rest for $19. This for sure is an interesting enterprise model. Anyway, I’ll let you know in a few days if I find it worth it.

So much for now…

Since November 8, the Edublog Awards are open for nominations. Appearantly, only educational bloggers are allowed to nominate other blogs (as it says on the awards homepage and in the OLDaily) are allowed . The categories for this year are:

• Best audio and/or visual blog
• Best group blog
• Best individual blog
• Most influential post, resource or presentation
• Best library/librarian blog
• Best newcomer
• Best research paper on social software within learning and teaching
• Best teacher blog
• Best undergraduate blog
• Best wiki use

Source: Edublog Awards 2006

The nomination period is open until November 30. Nominations should be sent to 2006awards@googlemail.com

The category on the “Best research paper on social software within learning and teaching” is quite interesting. Let’s see what they will vote on in the end and don’t forget…

…to get your European vote in today!

via A Difference

There’s an interesting discussion going on whether George Siemens’ Connectivism is indeed a learning theory or just another pedagogy. Verhagen from the University of Twente reviewed

1. Is connectivism a learning theory or a pedagogy?
2. The principles advocated by connectivism are present in other learning theories as well.
3. Can learning reside in non-human appliances?

Source: Connectivism: Learning theory or Past Time of the Self-Amused by George Siemens (connected blog post: Externalizing Knowledge)