links for 2008-12-23
links for 2008-12-19
links for 2008-12-17
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Article from educause about storytellin
Communities vs network of practice
- Image by Harold Jarche via Flickr
Been reading a lot about Communities of Practice recently and thinking I’m not quite looking at the right thing – particularly as Wenger and Lave are talking about communities within the same organisation. But one thing that has struck me in what I have been reading is this quote:
It is life itself that is the main learning event. Schools, classrooms, and training sessions still have a role to play in this vision, but they have to be in the service of the learning that happens in the world.
Some of the most useful things I’ve picked up in my life haven’t been in the classroom, but from outside it. – from teachers, colleagues and former colleagues, friends and passing acquaintances. This kind of informal learning is vital to what we do. Read more
links for 2008-12-11
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Great article from Mindy about Flash
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BBC talk to papers after the demise of their local video project
Personal service, Web 2.0 style
As you may have gathered, I’m a fan of Twitter (and Web 2.0 in general) because of how personal it can be.
And it don’t get much more personal than this.
I just sent out a Twitter question to ask if anyone was having problems with the Zemanta blogging plugin – and got this in reply.
Twitter message from @andraz about my zemanta question
How cool is that, and just before his Christmas do too!
Informal learning community
I’ve been thinking more about my project and have sorted out what I’m going to be looking at.
I’ve been on Twitter for a while now and find it a really useful place to hang out – mostly because of the easy access to such an interesting network of people (that means you if you’ve come here from twitter).
I’ve been learning a lot in a number of fields – my network consists of journalists, elearning types, developers and just plain interesting folks – and this kind of informal learning where the network shares information and ideas really interests me.
One of the key issues for me is a how a group of like-minded professionals (or people with a shared interest) can use a web 2.0 service to share developments and use Twitter as part of a personal learning network. So that, in a nutshell, is what I’m interested in.
As a journalism trainer, I’m obviously interested in how this can be used by journalists (although as an elearning type I’m also interested in this area too). But I’m going to do a case study based around journalists.
I’ve spoken to a couple of people and asked if they mind being part of a case study (they kindly said yes!) and I’ll be contacting some more in the near future.
And in the meantime I’m doing the reading on communities, learning, communities of practice and more!