The student feedback generated a considerable amount of information, most of it positive. On the negative side, the issues raised were the lack of an automatic notification when a wave is added to, confusing organisation within waves and of a series of waves, and ‘information overload’ which one student referred to as a ‘Google Tsunami’. [...]
We use several interactive spaces for communication and collaboration on the masters course, including the Wimba live classroom for web conferencing for tutorials, lectures and seminars, reflective blogs for collaborative learning, a wiki for group research and a social networking site called Ning for discussion forums and social presence. Our experience of introducing new platforms [...]
‘If we now situate knowledge building in groups or communities, we can observe the construction and evolution of the knowledge in the artifacts that are produced, in the sentences spoken, sketches drawn and texts inscribed…..building collaborative knowledge, making shared meaning, ….and creating significant artifacts are foundational activities in group processes’ Gerry Stahl (2009) The emerging [...]
What is Google Wave? Google announced Wave in May 2009 as a web-based service in which threaded ‘waves’ consisting of a series of ‘blips’ (messages) are written and edited by multiple participants. One of the developers of Wave has described it as ’what email would look like if it were invented today’ (Lifehacker, 2009). Underlying this is the [...]
From Chris Brogan’s blog, Social Media Tools Are Like Phones “One thing we misunderstand frequently when talking about how great and amazing social media is comes from the fact that we’re thinking from the perspective of what we want the tool to do while the people who are receiving the message might be thinking about the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
