By sleslie on November 14, 2008
Inevitably, when we discuss “loosely coupled” approaches with educational institutions, the conversation inevitably turns to “security and authentication” issues. But really, often what is meant is “those nasty web 2.0 tools won’t single sign-on to my [monolithic, obscure] campus login system, so what are we to do?” The last time I was in this conversation, [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged authentication, loosely-coupled, passwords, single-sign-on
By sleslie on November 8, 2008
(This is a long post, born out of years of frustration with ineffective institutional collaborations. If you only want the highlights, here they are: grow your network by sharing, not planning to share or deciding who to share with; the tech doesn’t determine the sharing – if you want to share, you will; weave your [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged diffusion-of-responsability, ineffectiveness, institution, network-learning, non-collaborating-collaborations, personal-learning-environment, personal-learning-network, sharing
By sleslie on November 6, 2008
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+workshop Yesterday it was my IMMENSE privilege to co-facilitate a pre-conference workshop with Jared Stein and Chris Lott on “Weaving your own PLE.” I think for all three of us it was an experiment, developed at a distance through Google docs, wikispaces and a couple of Skype calls. Ultimately, it is up to the participants [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged conference, mashup, personal-learning-environment, PLE, scraping, syndication, WCET, wcet08
By sleslie on November 6, 2008
http://www.netvibes.com/wcet08 Partly as an exercise in personal autonomy (we’re doing a workshop on “Personal Learning Environments” so what better way than to walk the talk) and partly just in a fit of pique that the conference itself wasn’t already doing something, I created this netvibes page to aggregate the activity from the on-going WCET conference [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged All-hail-Tony-Hirst, conference, epic-fail, netvibes, PLE, WCET, wcet08
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