Social learning
Social communities – why bother? After all we’ve all got enough on our plates without having to worry about people we don’t know or like wanting to become our ‘friends’ – haven’t we?
They’re here to stay, of that there is no doubt – so I guess I’d better learn to use them to my advantage rather than just whine about them.
My students are involved in a project using a Ning community set up by one of my colleagues and we’re using an Eduspaces community for my masters project. Both are proving to be interesting, both have their own little usability problems that get in the way of things a bit.
I’ve also been doing quite a lot of reading on how journalists are using things like Facebook to their advantage, great article on Magda’s Web Creation called Facebook – love it or loathe it that features what the Beeb and other organisations are up.
This electronic form of social link between disparate individuals has massive implications for journalists and educators alike. Read more
Community 2.0 (a correction)
Paul Bradshaw (see previous post) has been in touch. I’ve misconstrued what he’s said. Have a look at his comment on the original article.
We’re in agreement about the role of the letters page after all.
Doesn’t change anything for me (apart from wanting to buy him a beer to make up for it next time out) – it’s a very interesting idea and one that I’ll be watching with interest.
Memo to self: don’t sit at the back in class, and pay attention boy!
Community 2.0
Online communities are the order of the day for my master’s this semester. So we’re blogging, using an ELGG community and a wiki as part of the fun and games.
I’ve always had a problem with blogging – as a journalist I was always taught that my view isn’t important, it’s all about what the reader is interested in. You write for a community and are involved in it, but maybe were more apart from it rather than a part of it. Traditionally you got scared when a reader called to talk about a story (maybe because you were worried there had been a mistake).