Delicious Links

Oct 16 2007

Delicious links for 2007-10-16

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-10-16

Oct 9 2007

Delicious links for 2007-10-09

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-10-09

Oct 3 2007

More delicious links for 2007-10-03

I will be writing proper posts again soon….I promise!

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on More delicious links for 2007-10-03

Sep 28 2007

Citizen Journalism links for 2007-09-28

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Citizen Journalism links for 2007-09-28

Sep 25 2007

Delicious links for 2007-09-25 and the OLPC 1 for 1…

Sorry just had to expand on this interesting idea from Negroponte, although as some others have suggested I can see that it probably has come out of frustration and a lack of success from the original country wide mega production scale. BUT maybe this might kickstart the project – it will definitely be on my list and hopefully ACS-Egham might back the scheme to some extent, could be interesting at least for students to try out a different operating system and also do some good?

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-09-25 and the OLPC 1 for 1…

Sep 19 2007

Delicious links for 2007-09-19

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-09-19

Sep 12 2007

Delicious links for 2007-09-12

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-09-12

Sep 8 2007

Delicious links for 2007-09-08

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-09-08

Aug 12 2007

Delicious links for 2007-08-12

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-08-12

Aug 1 2007

Delicious links return for 2007-08-01

As you will notice I am resuming the use of automatic delicious blog postings most of which will be relating to the ITGS IB course that I will be running, so expect a rather more political/ethics based set of links along with the more normal tech based links.

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links return for 2007-08-01

Jun 13 2007

Delicious links for 2007-06-13

  • Apple – Safari 3 Public Beta
    Can this beat Firefox and Opera, it says so in fact its over 2 times as fast as Opera…..why not check it out! WARNING – I have tried this version out and it does not work. The menus disappear and do not show? Add to this some pretty heavy virus vulnerabilities….hmm maybe leave this a while?
    (tags: browser Applications Firefox Mac Opera)
  • Sputtr.
    Better, more flexible and efficient than Google alone, try yet another Search Engine with a twist………
    (tags: searchengine search google web2.0)

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-06-13

Jun 9 2007

NING Project drawing to a close…

WhichSocialWell I am now bringing together a variety of results and observations from the use of NING to produce the French Connection Social Network. It is interesting how other students not even linked with the project are now asking for invitations. However to some extent the conversation has died which is to be expected with a niche social network that is not being led by anyone – and so the initial premise of its use has not been fulfilled.
It is interesting the spread of Facebook, to almost total domination within the school  andMemberofNetwork has led me to wonder whether trying to use another network or ‘yet another network’ would in a longer term be doomed to failure as students obviously gravitate to the network that has most friends within it. Although maybe if different schools had been involved  the ‘pull’ characteristics of the FC Network might have been more. It also must be clarified that through the initial questionnaire 24% of students are not a member of any social network. And so my reliance on the students knowledge of social networks and how they work, might have been a little too much of a jump for some students. It was notable that a great deal suggested the site was too complicated, and most only used the most basic of features.
Homework?

The students from the initial questionnaire really did seem to be interested in combining the two. That is a ‘fun’ social network and an academic /educational element to this. There are many recent articles discussing this idea especially with the ubiquitous Facebook, including the recent blog post suggesting:- ‘Facebook: A ‘School’ in the future? In reality though through observation many students could not see the educational value of conversing in French? Maybe this was down to the way the Social Network was presented by myself and probably more so by the MFL teachers as a bit of fun. When actually if objectives and aims had been set, the conversation could have been directed further into ways in which it was transparently useful to the students.

Next post will feature my usual mad mind-map with references….and some more thoughts and conclusions especially about the ‘small pieces loosely joined’ debate and how I think the FC network was beginning to do this well.

By drtech • Assignment, Delicious Links • Comments Off on NING Project drawing to a close…

Jun 9 2007

Delicious links for 2007-06-09

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-06-09

Jun 6 2007

Delicious links for 2007-06-06

By drtech • Delicious Links • Comments Off on Delicious links for 2007-06-06

May 29 2007

Is a Wiki addictive…..

The Wiki project over at CICT Wiki is gathering pace especially in its final week of implementation. It has been noticeable that the interaction with the site and wiki has developed as this content being researched and developed has become more and more organised – it almost took a time to reach a critical mass before the students started to believe in the power of what could be produced.

Now students are much more involved at home, is this another addiction like the social networking/facebook addiction that is dominating teenage lives at the moment. I can see how all Read/ Write applications and media have that pull power as you are able to see immediate changed and make a difference. However small or large that difference might be. As the article from the Washington Post suggests “Sometimes wikis don’t click. But at their best, wikis are provocative, inspiring, funny and addictive.”

It is interesting also to see with the introduction of the Clustrmap and the competitive edge that was produced through my assessment strategy, students have been peer reviewing each others work in a very natural. Over a Meatball Wiki, they discuss the idea of the reason a Wiki seems at times to be addictive to certain members of a community. That is an interesting idea as even though the CICT wiki has been controlled from afar by myself, students can see that I have very much only set broad areas of research and have never changed any of their words, presentation elements etc, but have only added comments about how they could improve their research and wiki-pages. However according to the Meatball wiki I might actually be considered a Wiki neuterer:- “But, wiki only creates addicts where the wiki is open and not strangled by overbearing bullies and self-appointed censors. When that happens, wiki becomes a wiki-addict-neuterer”. I wonder if this is the case, or within any educational environment this has to be the case within reason?
Close down happens this Thursday at 12:00p.m. and I believe that even before then what started as a little experiment is something I will take forward and use again, specifically with the new ITGS course I will be teaching. The one remaining question is how to assess and ensure students are taking in everything they are researching  and also what others are researching.

By drtech • Delicious Links, Wiki • Comments Off on Is a Wiki addictive…..

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 »