Alan gave a great opening keynote at CeLC2010, making the case for quiet revolution (or at least innovation and change) within existing institutions. Time to turn up the heat…
James Duncan Davidson, Kris Krug and Pinar Ozger are on a photo expedition covering the oil leak in the Gulf. The photos they’re managing to get are surreal. Water isn’t supposed to look like that.
I read a whole bunch of posts today on the topic of comments on blogs, triggered by some critiques of Gruber’s Daringfireball which hasn’t ever had comments. Gruber wrote a post about the Google/Admob/Apple drama, and was called out for not having comments on his blog, and how that’s bad form. Gruber responded with this:
You write on your site; I write on mine. That’s a response.
and
Comments, at least on popular websites, aren’t conversations. They’re cacophonous shouting matches. DF is a curated conversation, to be sure, but that’s the whole premise.
I hadn’t heard the term “commonplace book” before, but it sounds like a perfect description of the “outboard brain” - the main reason I started blogging. It wasn’t about publishing anything, or discussing or commenting or connecting. It was documenting a flow of ideas and contexts.
Steven Berlin Johnson gave a talk back in April, describing the history of the commonplace book. He was using it as an introduction and context for the need to be able to remix content - as an argument against locked down electronic books that implement DRM to prevent copy and paste - and it nicely describes both the need to remix, and the need to document.
When I started at the Teaching & Learning Centre, I knew a bit about what Randy Garrison was doing - he was the new Director of the TLC, and he’d been working on something called “community of inquiry” - but I didn’t know too much more than that. I didn’t pay it much attention, since it didn’t overlap what I was doing very much.
Years passed, and I’m now planning the research proposal for my MSc thesis. And it turns out that the Community of Inquiry model is probably the best fit for what I want to do to investigate differences in discourse between two cohorts. More info on my research proposal at a later date…
When I started at the Teaching & Learning Centre, I knew a bit about what Randy Garrison was doing - he was the new Director of the TLC, and he’d been working on something called “