Archive for July, 2009

Joel, Stealing, and how the world has changed

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I posted on our Blackboard discussion group about Joel Tenenbaum’s fight against the ridiuculous fine the RIAA has levied against him for downloading ten songs without paying for him years ago (he was 16). One of my classmates believes this is a black and white issue of theft. He even said that as educational professionals [...]

Week 4 – what I did

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sorry this is so late!

Readings
Read everyone’s blog posts
Commented on some of those posts
Read and commented on the message board
Tweeted during the eLearning Guild conference
Met some edutweeps IRL!!!
Wrote blot posts

More mashups – autotune the news!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Mashups

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I was going to post this with in BB, but you can’t embed video in BB. BB is not very produsage friendly!!!
Here are some mashups I love:

My wrap-up of the eLearning Guilds Instructional Design Symposium in Boston

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I blogged about this on my work blog, mostly because I was representing work. Here are the links:
Day 1
Day 2

Determining Expertise

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Official Prompt for Week 4:
How do you judge the value of expertise on the Web? Does it differ from your notion of expertise in face-to-face settings? Why or why not?
There are several methods I use to judge the value of expertise:

If the information is coming from a blog post, I look at their about page. [...]

Presenting at a conference tomorrow

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

It’s my first time, so send me good thoughts!
This is the conference. Tell me if you see a speaker I should say hi to!

Busy week (week 4)

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

This week is crazy for me (outside of class). I taught a virtual class Monday and Tuesday. That was exhausting, way more work than teaching a face-to-face class. Today I have a break, but tomorrow and Friday I’ll be attending the eLearning Guild’s Instructional Design Symposium. Oh yeah I am presenting there as well.
Plus we [...]

Week 3 in Review

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Here’s what I did for Week 3:

Made it through the Bruns reading
Worked on the wiki for my “produsage” product
Advertised my project wiki – on twitter, on both blogs
Posted 5 blog posts
Participated on the discussion boards
Participated in #lrnchat
Shared links on twitter
Read and commented on classmates’  blogs

From Bruns to Colbert

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I was going to write a post based on the parts of this week’s Bruns reading where he sort of talks about agile, but seems to get it all wrong.
Instead I want to talk about Wikipedia.
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is defined (by wikipedia) as being “a manuscript page from a scroll or book that has been scraped [...]