Social Software and more…

I’m currently at the conference "Web2.0 at school" in Arth-Goldau in Switzerland.

The conference started out with a wonderful presentation by Beat Doebeli Honneger who also puts most of his presentations online on his website. He talked about the power of wikis but started out with a great demonstration on the power of storytelling including an analogy of fishing for learning.

I also gave a talk about how to use wikis in schools, including a number of examples. Most of them are documented in our SCIL report which can soon be downloaded as a pdf-file from our website.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the conference.  

via the CSCL-Community

Last week, I was wondering how much the CSCL community is involved in web2.0-applications. One of my guesses was that social software is too trivial for this community. However, there is some web2.0 during the CSCL-pre-conference in July 2007. But my guess seems to be confirmed nevertheless since Erik Blankinship’s afternoon session on Wiki Video seems quite sophisticated. I’m curious how the rest of the conference program will look like. But I guess, I have to wait a few more days when the conference program is available at the conference website

Any opinions on this question?

Via Mandy Schiefner I found out about a new framework for education and research which mainly deals with the exchange of data and how using a service-oriented infrastructure could actually support administration, education, and research. I’m not quite sure whether this could actually lead to more funding, however, most of the other ideas shown in the video seem very fascinating. This kind of standardization might actually be a possible way for Personal Learning Environments as well which would highly profit from standards. Here’s the original description and below you can find the link to the great visualisation of the e-Framework.

The e-Framework for Education and Research is an initiative by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia’s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The primary goal of the e-Framework is to facilitate technical interoperability within and across education and research through improved strategic planning and implementation processes. Quelle

 

Here’s the link to the little film

Blogged with Flock