I usually don’t like to embed YouTube videos but have a look at this one:
As foreigner in Switzerland (I don’t really feel like it anyway), I love the Swiss specialities
Found via Miriam Meckel
I usually don’t like to embed YouTube videos but have a look at this one:
As foreigner in Switzerland (I don’t really feel like it anyway), I love the Swiss specialities
Found via Miriam Meckel
After about three months of being caught up in projects and doctoral seminars, I finally start to blog again. I’ll give it one more try and if it does not work this time, I’ll just quit. I have been reflecting whether this is my way of publishing at all; and I still think it might be. The incentive to start blogging again came through the author of the Ideant-Blog Ulises A. Mejias who recently posted his complete dissertation on networked proximity online. He wrote there:
I am thankful to those who read the dissertation drafts I posted on my blog, commented on them, or merely linked to them because they thought they were interesting. Given what I learned from the process of maintaining a blog during my graduate studies, I highly recommend the practice to anyone embarking on a similar journey.
I think that provides a strong motivation… I’m still wondering how appropriate it is in the European system to put parts of my dissertation online before it is published. Not to speak of the fact that I’m writing in German. Anyway, I’ll see how it works and I keep you posted!
Learntec 2007 - Web2.0, Knowledge Management und E-Learning
Web 2.0-Technologien zwischen E-Learning und Wissensmanagement
von Gabi Reinmann & Thomas Sporer - Universität Augsburg
Folien können hier abgerufen werden (Achtung: recht grosses File).
E-Learning und WM tun sich recht schwer miteinander wg. unterschiedlichen Auffasungen von Wissen, Lernen, Zielen sowie verschiedenen Disziplinen, Sprachen, Kulturen, Erwartungen
–> praktische Verbindung über Web 2.0
Was sind Web 2.0 Technologien?
Drei Sichtweisen auf das Thema
Beispiele:
Webcasts
Social Software
Webcast
Social Software:
Theoretische Verbindung über persönliches WM
–> im Mittelpunkt steht die PERSON!!! Deswegen könnte das persönliche Wissensmgm. die Verbindung zwischen E-Learning und WM
Fazit und Folgerungen
Wir brauchen also mehr "Beziehungsmanagement" und mehr "Identitätsmanagement" –> Beschäftigung mit Dingen und Personen
Diskussion
In addition to my post on blog habits I found an interesting post by Kathy Sierra on how to insert graphics into your blog, presentations and so on (via Jochen Robes and Stephen Downes). Of course, we all know how important it is to illustrate our thoughts with graphics and how well some people (the visual type) learn from these illustrations. However, I guess we all need to be reminded every one in a while.
I really like and enjoy Gliffy which is a free tool available to make graphics online (can also be used by a team). In my opinion this tool lets you get quite a long way. Enjoy!
Finally… Action Research and Social Software
I’ve been following Christopher D. Sessums Weblog for quite a while now and I always found that his posts were very thoughtful and elaborated. So today he provided some insights on Action Research and Social Software and how action research might be a model for educators to try out social software for teaching and learning. He provided a straighforward graphic on how action research works, i.e. experiment by actually acting, monitor and evaluate and then start to plan again, try it out and so on… Here’s the picture which I’ll attribute to him since he didn’t give any citation (hoping that I’m not violating any copyright).
I’m glad that the connection between social software and research has been stated by Christopher. This is exactly the focus of a recent study that we did at SCIL. We basically focussed on the literature of the past few years and tried to find scientific research on social software and its application in education. Results will be reported on this blog as well as soon as I’m done with translating them into English. Anyway, in my opinion we should have a closer (more scientific) look at how social software is used in the classroom and what are the factors that help teachers and learners. This might be the starting point for wider adoption of social software.
technorati tags:research, actionresearch, sessums, socialsoftware
I found this list on “Ten habits of bloggers that win” quite interesting (via James Fadden who got it form the Cool Cat Teacher):
The habits are good guides for beginning bloggers.
- If you mention it hyperlink it.
- Get a Good Title
- Write and then cut in half
- Write and then format
- Draw a picture
- Before you bag it tag it
- After you post it ping it
- Make sure you set your pages to archive
- Comment on articles you quote and hyperlink to your article
- get the stats back.
technorati tags:blogging, bloghabits
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
"Knowing Knowledge” by George Siemens
This weekend, I read a little bit into “Knowing Knowledge”, the new book by George Siemens, who put it all up on the internet as free and open content. This link leads to the accompanying website with a community to discuss the book, a print-on-demand version, etc. The pdf-version of the book can be found here.
Also, see Siemens’s presentation at the University of Manitoba yesterday (MP3 audio and PowerPoint slides) on social technologies.
Source: via Stephen Downes
I haven’t made it through the whole book yet, but I do like it even though it is addressed rather to business leaders than to academia or to anybody involved in knowledge management. It is definitely worthwile to read through the book although one might have a different stance on certain subjects.
Via the journal "Wirtschaft & Weiterbildung" (a German magazine dealing with news around corporate education) I found out that the Siemens AG in Munich is currently doing a pilot project on blogging. It is called "Blog 100" since Siemens wants to test in a 100-day-trial period if their employees are willing to use blogs as a tool for knowledge and experience exchange. On this basis, a strategy is to be developed on how to use blogs in the corporation. A podcast with interviews of the Vice President Corporate Media, the Head of Message Development and the Senior Manager Corporate Media of the Siemens AG can be found on the "Pimp My Brain"-blog [in German].
Quite interesting that big corporations are starting to use web2.0-tools for internal purposes as well. Siemens had already been using blogs and podcasts for their marketing. I wonder, however, if they are also thinking about using it for corporate education where it could be used for employees’ reflections during seminars, for example. Or is it "only" about knowledge management?
Spannendes Gruppen-Edu-Blog aus der Schweiz
– English version below –
Über Andreas Auwärters Blog Podcasting for Learning habe ich von einem neuen Schweizer Blog zum Thema eLearning und Wissensmanagement erfahren, der im Rahmen des gleichnamigen Master-Studiengangs von der NDK eLearning 2006/2007 (diese scheint sich mit der Integration von Blogs und Wikis in den Unterricht zu beschäftigen - sehr spannend) als Gemeinschaftsblog entsteht. Deswegen bloggen dort auch eine ganze Reihe von Teilnehmenden des Studiengangs und kann mich diesem Kommentar von Andreas Auwärter
nur anschliessen:"Ich wünsche zuerst einmal den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer an dieser Community viel Spaß an der Arbeit, auch wenn sie mir als fast abgeschlossen erscheint. Was der Blogforschenden und Podcastforschenden und Web2.0 forschenden Blogsphäre, Podcastsphäre dienlich wäre, wäre, wenn Ihr uns erhalten bliebet. Vielleicht innerhalb dieses Blogs, damit es weiterleben würde, oder vielleicht auf einem Eigenen … Wie sind hier die Pläne? Schreibt doch einmal, wie Ihr die Gestaltung des Seminares vorgenommen habt etc."
Auch ich wäre sehr neugierig darauf, wie der Blog im Rahmen dieses Studiengangs eingebunden ist und welche Erfahrungen die Teilnehmenden damit machen - erste Reflexionsansätze sind dort schon zu finden, zum Beispiel in diesem Blogpost, und es bleibt zu hoffen, dass wir die Entwicklung weiterhin live mitverfolgen können.
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Oops, I just realized that I wrote this post in German - I guess this can happen when you’re reading in other German blogs. Anyway, here’s a short English version:
Via Andreas Auwärter’s Blog Podcasting for Learning I heard about another Swiss Community Blog which deals with eLearning and Knowledge Management and is developed during a study programme on the same topic. It seems that the blogging takes place during a course on how to use blogs and wikis in the classroom and along with Andreas Auwärter, I would hope that this group of people continues blogging after their course has ended. By the way, the blog is written in German.