Enterprise VLEs and LMS like blackboard (aka blackweb) are getting a bad press these days with the rise of web2 and the edupunk concept of finding your own open source tools to create the learner centred environment everyone wants. But we have to face the fact that most large organisations like universities (mine is no [...]
In A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism, Jay Rosen of NYU’s Journalism programme defines citizen media as ‘When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.’ That got me thinking as always as to how this insight about the [...]
Michael Wesch is a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State university, and something of a guru when it comes to web 2.0 and education. The video he made collectively with his class of 200 anthropology students using a wiki approach, ‘a vision of students today’ seems to be shown at every e learning conference [...]
