Social Software and more…

In time for our future outlooks onto the next year, I found a graphic by Nowandnext and the Future Education Network focusing on the trends for the year 2007 and beyond. Not suprisingly, web 2.0 is one of them. But the map goes way beyond this and also addresses societal trends; however, it has very little to say about education - unfortunately!

Click on the picture to get to the pdf-version.  

Via the eduFutureBlog who got it from Ross Dawson’s Trends in the Living Network

I was asked to give a short presentation on social software in one of our IWP - team meetings. I will focus on the basic concepts of blogs, wikis, and podcasts, and on the possibilities to use them in educational settings - especially in universities. I made a number of graphics to illustrate the presentation, here’s one of them:

 (based on a graphic by Roell, 2005)

The presentation is just the basics and will be well-known to most of you but I thought I’d make it available nevertheless - you can find it here (in German only). Feedback, of course, would be very welcome.

Hello again!

I just realized that I never fulfilled my promise to report on our great workshop that we had a couple of weeks ago on e-assessment and e-portfolio. Just like everything - it got lost in my holiday preparations. Anyway, in the meantime, participants and speakers wrote about the workshop so that there’s not very much left to say. Have a look at:

• education & media by Mandy Schiefner
• edublog phr, the Education-Moblog der Pädagogischen Hochschule Rorschach von Martin Hoffmann
• E-Assessment-Blog by Sandra Schaffert, who also did a presentation during the workshop
• Blog by Karsten Wolf, who also made his presentation available online in the Publikationssystem of the Universität Bremen.

Es hat viel Freude gemacht, den Workshop zu moderieren, wobei ich natürlich gerne mehr Zeit gehabt hätte, mit dem ein oder anderen zu plaudern, aber dafür gibt es hoffentlich noch häufiger Gelegenheit.

Wir werden Anfang des Jahres einen Arbeitsbericht zu dem Workshop herausgeben. Der erste Artikel ist auch schon eingetroffen und ich freue mich auf die folgenden. Der Arbeitsbericht wird in deutscher Sprache erscheinen.

P.S. For those of you interested: my holiday pictures can be found online at my Flickr account. Enjoy!