links for 2008-10-30

Dave Cohn in the Spotlight | Online Journalism Blog

Interview with the man behind spot.us

(tags: Journalism ojatcardiff Networked-journalism spot.us cohn community via:mento.info)
Newsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism – Publishing 2.0

Some interesting points about driving traffic by human Twitter, not RSS generation

(tags: ojatcardiff Journalism twitter web2.0 publishing microblogging socialnetworks via:mento.info)

October 30, 2008 | Filed Under Things I've found | Comments

links for 2008-10-29

the evolution of the front page | serial consign

Interesting look at the development of the LA Times

(tags: Journalism ojatcardiff design newspaper history layout visualization research via:mento.info)
Telegraph experiments with "post moderation" of news stories – Press Gazette

(tags: ojatcardiff Journalism Telegraph newspapers subs moderation via:mento.info)

October 29, 2008 | Filed Under Things I've found | Comments

links for 2008-10-28

Social Media Classroom

Howard Rheingold's new site

(tags: Education msc08 web2.0 socialmedia via:mento.info)
SPRING 07 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 REV A.indd

Web 2.0 teaching and learning

(tags: Education msc08 web2.0 via:mento.info)
eLearn: Feature Article

Stephen Downes elearning 2.0

(tags: Education msc08 web2.0 elearning elearning2.0 socialsoftware via:mento.info)
BioMed Central | Full text | Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education

Web 2.0 and community of practice

(tags: Education web2.0 wiki blogs podcast msc08 via:mento.info)
Beet.TV: The New York Times Readies HD Online Video Channel As Part of New Brightcove Implementation

Online HD for NY Times using Brightcove

(tags: ojatcardiff Journalism video nytimes online newspapers via:mento.info)
Insite | Journalists and the social web – Oslo Seminar

Presentations on social web searching

(tags: Journalism ojatcardiff socialmedia social-search web2.0 web-3.0 via:mento.info)

October 28, 2008 | Filed Under Things I've found | Comments

Web 2.0 Learning community

To the research mobile

Been getting my Web 2.0 (f)utility belt together, because it is time to start working on the final research element of my elearning technologies course.

So far, my kit involves Zotero for storing articles ready for citation. The main problem is it isn’t web-based (and I’ve tried moving libraries between different machines before and it gets quite messy) – so I’m going to be using a new tag in my del.icio.us account – Msc08. I can then import that into Zotero and use the plugin to export the citation to my word processor, the excellent Neo Office (Open Office for Mac).

I’ve also set up a Twitter hashtag #msco8 to track any thoughts that crop up as I’m going around my daily life – one of the great things about Hashtags is it gives you the added advantage of a digital memory for Twitter, great things memes.

I also set up a tumblr log to keep track of a number of RSS feeds, at the moment just tracking edupunk as a general term. Not quite got it right yet as the Dapper RSS feed I created for a Flickr tag keeps returning empty values. I’ll have a crack at a Yahoo pipe next.

Question: web 2.0 + learning community=edupunk?

After reading about Edupunk via Stephen Downes, Jim Groom and Martin Weller I’m quite intrested in the idea of exploring how students can use Web 2.0 tools to support their own learning – PLE /Loosely-coupled teaching/ Edupunk.

The idea of choosing your own tools and even having some suggested by your tutor (thanks Emma and Terry) appeals to me greatly. The ability to form an ad hoc toolkit, with different tools for different jobs seems a logical way forward to me – because learning doesn’t happen in the classroom. That’s where ideas are presented, or even some would say constrained.

Community matters

The added advantage to using Web 2.0 tools is there is also the potential of support from a wider community that uses them – something I’m finding a lot with my social web weapons of choice. There are a lot of very generous people who are happy to share, and who are interested in engaging with things sent to them in return.

So – here we go: can a group of learners using Web 2.0 tools (I’m pretending Web 3.0 isn’t on the horizon at this early stage ;D) develop/become part of a learning network? Or am I looking at tools and ways of fostering a learning community, or even can I encourage my learners to become edupunks?

Not really the research question I’m looking at, but gives an idea of what I’m thinking at the moment.

Time to go and do that lit review.

Update: I’ve created a Mento category Msc08 which will feed del.icio.us in turn