By sleslie on October 30, 2007
http://cogdogblog.com/conversations/scott-leslie.mp3 As part of the cogdog’s recent tour down under, he interviewed a number of blog colleagues for quotable quotes. I just found the one I did with him now and listened to it for the first time (what, like this is a revealing admission, from a blogger?) I must admit I’m actually kind of [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged cogdog, mashups, network-effects, openness, permeability, podcast
By sleslie on October 29, 2007
As part of my new ongoing efforts to collect and re-present ‘Best Practice’ examples of what I’ll call “loosely coupled teaching” I am really interested to hear from readers their single best example of a course (ideally one reachable on the public internet) taught using contemporary social software/web 2.0 tools outside a course management system. [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged loosely-coupled-teaching, social-learning
By sleslie on October 29, 2007
Both as someone who supports online learning and as someone who supports remote users of various software services, I have a keen interest in screen-sharing software and techniques, as these are often the quickest way to diagnose and troubleshoot problems. Now there are a huge number of good solutions that let you share your own [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged remote, screen-sharing, support, Unyte
By sleslie on October 23, 2007
http://www.ttix.org/ Got an email today from someone at Utah Valley State College asking me if I would place an ad here on edtechpost for their upcoming Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange conference. I told them that I do not accept advertising, but given that the conference is FREE I told them I would at least [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged conference
By sleslie on October 19, 2007
So, if you’ll induldge me again, I have another question as a follow up to the last one. What is your favourite source for finding new examples of people teaching online with loosely coupled tools? Is there a blogger you already follow who regularly posts great examples from the field? Or is there a trove [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged elearning-2.0, feeds, loosely-coupled, sources, teaching, web-2.0
By sleslie on October 15, 2007
So I need your help. For about 5 years I worked on the Edutools project with my friend and colleague Bruce Landon. Whether you liked the site or hated it (there seemed to be hundreds lined up on both sides of the fence) ultimately our goal and motivation was to help people make better decisions [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged choice, decision-making, edtech, locus-of-control, reviews
By sleslie on October 9, 2007
http://solr.bccampus.ca/wiki/index.php/CASify_this_mediawiki In case it proves useful to anyone, I wanted to point out this short write-up by my colleague Victor Chen on how he got our new mediawiki installation working with our Central Authentication Service account. We wanted to use mediawiki to power this new wiki aimed at collecting, documenting and creating CMS interoperability best [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged mediawiki-cas-integration-php
By sleslie on October 3, 2007
Most nights for the past few weeks I’ve been working away from my home office in a local coffee shop with free wifi. Partly I find it easier to work on ‘after-hours’ projects out of the house, away from the family, but in truth part of the reason I like working here is that it [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged conversation, peer-learning, social
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