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Its our turn to change the world

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Official Prompt for Week 6:
Reflect on what you have learned in the class and how you will use it professionally as both a lifelong learner and an instructional systems professional (or whatever field you’re in).
I came to this class with quite a bit of experience with using and building Web 2.0 tools.  I was happy [...]

Authorship, Copyright, oh my

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Official prompt for week 5:
How do issues such as authorship, copyright and open access impact your desire, ability and willingness to engage in produsage, both personally and professionally?
Personally
I have a couple of things that I have created – I refuse to say “prodused” – that I share with the world. The first is my blog. [...]

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. [...]

How can wikis and blogs be used in a work environment?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Official Prompt for Week 3:
What uses might a collaborative wiki or blog have in your chosen (current or desired) work environment? How would they support learning and/or performance? What would be the design and implementation challenges if management tried to do this? What would be the design and implementation challenges of a user-initiated effort?
Uses for [...]

Am I a produser?

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Official Prompt for Week Two:
How might the concept of produsage be applied in your life (personal and/or professional) as it stands today? Are you already a produser? If yes, what do you do? If no, why not?
According to produsage website, produsage can be defined as the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content [...]

What do I hope to get out of this class?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

This is my official post to satisfy the writing prompt for the week. In my next post I’ll explain how to burn a feed (for all of you who took my suggestion to use Edublogs..).
Official Prompt for Week 1:
What have been your prior experiences with Web 2.0 technologies? Do you consider yourself a leader or [...]