Crowd-sourced open textbook manifesto in sets of tweets.

Siemens sketches his concerns about MOOCs as they become more popular. MOOCs are a new paradigm and redefine design, practice, responsibility and other aspects. Means that it's going to be hard to fit them into current thinking and current interests.

Covering organization, access, frequency, substance, archiving, and assessment

Brief entry and extended discussion on DE including Walden, Phoenix, and state unis, being self-taught, the value of a degree. Anecdotal, but broad.

We've turned the corner on scholarly blogging. Next you know, Time will cover it. Some valuable links in this short post. "If scholars are to be truly evaluated on their impact to the field, a blog that fosters healthy debate and discussion, and ideally advances ideas or problems within the field, is a strong indicator of immediate impact. "

Some profs using this as an incentive. I prefer my good and evil fully baked.

Repository of brief articles on CMSs and teaching writing

Two points here: Nixty social couse management software that leverages profs, and "the fact is that most people who can afford to go to college in the US want the experience of actually going to college. Those of us who would love to go back to college but don’t have the time to take off from careers or raising families, could use Nixty, but the problem is what I call the “Rosetta Stone dilemma.” I love Rosetta Stone’s software, and I think the approach to learning languages works – but the bottom line is there’s no short cut to the hours you need to put in to really learn a language fluently and I just don’t have those hours."

Little bib on changing punctuation conventions, some of the speculation resting too much on ... um ... speculation. Leaves out Crystal and Baron. "All signs suggest punctuation is in flux. In particular, our signs that mark grammatical (and sometimes semantic) distinctions are waning, while those denoting tone and voice are waxing."

About evaluating blog posts. Offers a rubric, similar to mine on weblogs and wikis, as well as a mid-term reflective post, again similar to my mid-term reflection.

good general advice for GAs and newbies

When elearning becomes something other than DE - and they are proud of it.

A list of tools and toys - sites and applications - for the very traditional way of teaching first-year comp. I wouldn't call this best practice so much local practice, and I don't see these so much as tools for learning as tools for teaching. Perhaps a counter-list is in order.

Good response to Rankin's initial pass at twitter in the classroom.

Nifty project. Links to the end result.

Yet another social media exchange. Similar to a wiki page in that comments and layers are associated with the specific target. Unlike a wiki and more like a blog in that the target itself is not modified but layered. But the layering is interesting. It means that a target can have different sets of commentary and notes: a different story for the same diegesis, different emphases of the same ground ...

Thorough research with a diverse group of students. The reach the usual conclusions but wisely emphasize moderation of claims. Representative anecdotes. "Through collaboration and iteration, we were able to significantly increase and improve the effectiveness of our use of wikis in writing-intensive classes. We found that although the wikis were a compelling tool for teaching writing and although students improved their confidence in and ability to write, we could not attribute either of these effects directly to our use of wikis. Instead, wikis facilitated the methods of teaching writing we already practiced, such as multiple drafts, self and peer review, and writing for audiences other than the teacher. We found wikis most useful as a tool for student collaboration and were delighted by the community building effects of this collaboration.

Now that you’ve learned to use Twitter to communicate with friends and colleagues, it’s time to think about how to use it in the classroom.

Argues that the terms digital natives and digital immigrants are increasingly problematic. The metaphors mask significant ideas.

Brian Lamb's notes on content management, the changing state of learning, rss feeds and what t all entails at the end of 2008. Nicely linked.

Changes in technology and the concepts of learning objects.

A new touchstone in online research. Readme

"What does that bode for our future employees? Not only will they be ready to work in the read-write web, but they will begin to dismiss as irrelevant our read-only intranets and flash-y webs."

Brief teacherly article on creating and using a wikipedia-like set up in fyc.

UW Madison. I seek to provide teachers with a systematic survey of the anecdotal information out there on blogs (no formal studies have been published on blogs in teaching, to my knowledge) so that they can implement them in their own teaching.

Statement from the CCCC Blogging / Social Software SIG. Some general principles and resources.

Cory Doctorow, 05/31/2002. Older piece but good for consideration of storing and working with information

students — faculty, too — are increasingly aware of and irritated by the clumsiness and inflexibility of the tech tools that higher education currently uses.

CW presentation on using wikis in writing at Penn State. "students produce better work in a peer-reviewed environment". Find the same thing locally. Pity BSU couldn't move this direction.

Projects and products that oscillate between digital and atoms, collaboration. digital / material mashups and re-mediations

how can faculty reveal more about themselves without compromising professional roles and responsibilities?

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If you’re interested to know more about this course, please visit the course blog and wiki. Both are excellent examples of how to use blogs and wikis to create a digital extension of the course, and a vibrant online community for students to interact be

Wesch's videos

Martin Weller's vid on the OU's developing use of broadcast materials: remixing.

Many of the organizations I've worked with use e-mail for nearly everything, when a different tool (like oh, say, a wiki) could be more beneficial. Here are a few ideas -

Looks like a point for hybrids - until you look at the confounds created between the two courses. This was not an online or DE course.

read me

A page of wiki use resources, including a good list of courses using wikis for data entry, notes, writing. BSU mentioned twice.

Howard Rheingold's Digital Journalism syllabus in socialtext wiki

Brief OV from CIO magazine. How wikis are managed in a corporate universe, eg "Someone has to be in charge ..."

The significance in these uses is tying twitter to sending to and from the cell phone,

Kerika - graphical wiki. Free for educational use

Using Twitter to create community in the classroom

an argument against the likes of D2L et al.

Virtual community / knowledge base. Also organizes face to face meetings and events. Often pages are more links to other sites (some vetted better than others) than developed knowledge.

No Blackkboard, d2l, or WebCT in sight.

Displays Wikipedia articles in a mind map format.

Interesting for its (ahem) use of Pachyderm new media authoring system. Essentially yet another repackaging / re-mediation of advice far removed from any particular situation. Focus is on stasis by way of discovering a paradox. The Flash media text is t

Vlogging, like blogging, connects people, and relies on a (rhetorical construction of) authenticity: "If you could name a core value on YouTube, it's authenticity," says Mr. Wesch.

This is hot in discussion on tech rhet for the moment. I'll wait for the evidence of the study.

Report on using blogs in pro dev - action research, etc

seeing wikis and teaching with wikis as challenging the print literacy grounding of teaching. worthy of more study

JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF (application/pdf Object) Schools and afterschool programs must devote more attention to fostering what we call

wiki used for human-aggregation of writing related bibs (and FAQ?)

survey making some loose claims about quality, but also showing a rise in DE. Shows that perceptions about quality have risen among CAOs (who have reason to claim high quality) but doesn't address actual measures of quality.

Small comparative study of two discussion boards, one using anchored dicussion, the other a stock discussion board. The article shows a) how the design of the software influences literacy (kinds of messages), b) how online discussions can compete with cla

The OED is using the internet corpus

a side effect of cut and paste habits? the idea is to slow down and digest the material - but writing by hand