Danah Boyd, one of the key researchers on the use of social media, is joining the microsoft research
team to work on social networking
here is a link to a fascinating talk she has just given there about how teenagers use social media .
(scroll down to find her talk)
Here is the abstract for her talk
Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena [...]
I’ve been working on applying blogging to developing Donald Schon’s concept of the reflective practitioner and his idea of the practicum as a
‘virtual world, relatively free of the pressures, distractions, and risks of the real one, to which, nevertheless it refers. It stands in the intermediate space between the practice world, the ‘lay world’ of [...]
I’ve just joined a free online workhop on work literacy looking at using social media run by 3 of the bestedubloggers around, michele martin, harold jarche,and tony karrer .Its run as a ning site, which I’m keen to see how it works as i have been toying with using ning to set up a social [...]
just came across this wonderful video ‘a vision of k12 students today’,
which makes a perfect compliment to michael wesch’s ‘a vision of students today’ (see my previous post). The message is ‘engage me’, exite me, energise me, let me use technology and the www – whatever, wherever, whenever. teach me to think, to create, to [...]
Thanks to anyone who attended my talk in the Wimba distinguished lecture series on wed 24th sept, there were over 60 people online from australia to the USA pretty much spanning the time zones. Here are the references for the talk:
Boud D, Cohen R and Walker D (1985) Reflection: turning experience into learning. London: Kogan [...]
I’m giving a Distinguished Speaker lecture at Wimba online tomorrow wed sept 24th at 16.00 BST/11.00ET about blogs in postgraduate education as an aid to reflective practice.
you can register here
the abstract is here
Blogs form a vital part of the collaborative space in which postgraduates interact with each other and with tutors and industry professionals; operating [...]
I’m currently working on a paper for the designs on e learning conference 2008 at Penn State university in September on blogs in post grad education in art and design. As part of this I’ve been thinking about what blogs can offer that other forms of reflective learning journals cannot. So I’ve been playng around [...]
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 media might [...]
An interesting post today from charlie beckett about why news organisations are resistant to moving into the online arena that has interesting implications for education. Charlie argues that because editors typically see online as a drain on limited resources and dont see any incentives: “All the managers could see was a threat. This Online business [...]
