Comments for http://generalia.wordpress.com E-Learning & Web Resources Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:36:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Web 3.0? by Derek Tutschulte http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/web-30/#comment-5 Derek Tutschulte Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:36:32 +0000 http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/web-30/#comment-5 Anybody watching the "clicker" space? Have always been fascinated by these little gadgets. Would love to see them in action. Read about them over at Educause: <a href="http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=666&ID=ELI7002&bhcp=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=666&ID=ELI7002&bhcp=1</a> Also, anybody catch the announcement by Berkley (home of the renowned Berkley School of Information) that they will be putting up classroom lectures on Google's Video Portal? Not a bad way of getting yourself out there, eh? I would imagine this approach will become mandatory for those schools that want to be "in the running" for prospective student consideration. <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/berkley-offers-course-lectures-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/berkley-offers-course-lectures-in.html</a> Also, thought Berkley's experimentation with a school "backchannel" was quite fascinating. I have attended conferences where a backchannel has been deployed and was blown away by the concept. Basically, a backchannel is a live chatroom that is accessible to students, or any group thereof, at any time 24-7. When a student has questions about anything, ranging from the general to arcane, they post it to the backchannel, where it is replied to by other students monitoring backchannel activity. On it's face, the idea seems rather disruptive and anarchic, however unleashing the power of unedited live conversation in a educational context to students in order to allow them to educate eachother can acheive a surprisingly different result. There is a paper on Berkley's backchannel experiment that's worth checking out here: <a href="http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/classchat/papers/SaritaYardi_ISLS2006.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/classchat/papers/SaritaYardi_ISLS2006.pdf</a> Anybody watching the “clicker” space? Have always been fascinated by these little gadgets. Would love to see them in action.

Read about them over at Educause:
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=666&ID=ELI7002&bhcp=1

Also, anybody catch the announcement by Berkley (home of the renowned Berkley School of Information) that they will be putting up classroom lectures on Google’s Video Portal? Not a bad way of getting yourself out there, eh? I would imagine this approach will become mandatory for those schools that want to be “in the running” for prospective student consideration.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/berkley-offers-course-lectures-in.html

Also, thought Berkley’s experimentation with a school “backchannel” was quite fascinating. I have attended conferences where a backchannel has been deployed and was blown away by the concept. Basically, a backchannel is a live chatroom that is accessible to students, or any group thereof, at any time 24-7. When a student has questions about anything, ranging from the general to arcane, they post it to the backchannel, where it is replied to by other students monitoring backchannel activity.

On it’s face, the idea seems rather disruptive and anarchic, however unleashing the power of unedited live conversation in a educational context to students in order to allow them to educate eachother can acheive a surprisingly different result.

There is a paper on Berkley’s backchannel experiment that’s worth checking out here:
http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/classchat/papers/SaritaYardi_ISLS2006.pdf

]]> Comment on Bob Berkman’s Recommendation by Derek Tutschulte http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/bob-berkmans-recommendation/#comment-3 Derek Tutschulte Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:01:25 +0000 http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/bob-berkmans-recommendation/#comment-3 I'd have to second that reading recommendation. A real pleasure to read. I also like to suggest a great blog that is covering newer social software techniques in the classroom. The writer's guinea pigs are quite young, but the experimentation with his students sheds instructive light on the topic, and his passion is undeniably contagious. Set your RSS reader to STUN here: <a href="http://opensource.christophercraft.com/" rel="nofollow">http://opensource.christophercraft.com/</a> -Derek I’d have to second that reading recommendation. A real pleasure to read.

I also like to suggest a great blog that is covering newer social software techniques in the classroom. The writer’s guinea pigs are quite young, but the experimentation with his students sheds instructive light on the topic, and his passion is undeniably contagious.

Set your RSS reader to STUN here:
http://opensource.christophercraft.com/

-Derek

]]> Comment on More than one way to Google by Derek Tutschulte http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/more-than-one-way-to-google/#comment-4 Derek Tutschulte Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:47:24 +0000 http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/more-than-one-way-to-google/#comment-4 Hi. Robert Berkman turned me on to the blog. Got some good stuff goin' on in here. Thought I'd pass along that Blackboard announced at Educause that they have joined Google's Enterprise Professional program and are working more closely with their search appliance hardware and Google Scholar, among other things Googly. Read about it over at the official Google Enterprise blog: <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2006/10/step-up-to-blackboard.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2006/10/step-up-to-blackboard.html</a> and the Blackboard press release: <a href="http://investor.blackboard.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=177018&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=913818&highlight=" rel="nofollow">http://investor.blackboard.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=177018&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=913818&highlight=</a> Looking forward to more good Generalia posts. -Derek Hi. Robert Berkman turned me on to the blog. Got some good stuff goin’ on in here.

Thought I’d pass along that Blackboard announced at Educause that they have joined Google’s Enterprise Professional program and are working more closely with their search appliance hardware and Google Scholar, among other things Googly.

Read about it over at the official Google Enterprise blog:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2006/10/step-up-to-blackboard.html

and the Blackboard press release:
http://investor.blackboard.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=177018&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=913818&highlight=

Looking forward to more good Generalia posts.

-Derek

]]> Comment on TNS 2.0 by Bob Berkman http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/tns-20/#comment-2 Bob Berkman Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:44:52 +0000 http://generalia.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/tns-20/#comment-2 Of everything that I've read so far about Web 2.0, my favorite source is a book by Peter Morvile, an "information architect", titled Ambient Findability. In my classes on Web 2.0, this is an assigned text--it is a clear, compelling and fascinating discussion about all the various threads that make up the Web 2.0 phenomenon. What about starting a new thread to pull together our favorite Web 2.0 enabling tools? (eg RSS readers and optimizers; social news aggregators; etc?) Of everything that I’ve read so far about Web 2.0, my favorite source is a book by Peter Morvile, an “information architect”, titled Ambient Findability. In my classes on Web 2.0, this is an assigned text–it is a clear, compelling and fascinating discussion about all the various threads that make up the Web 2.0 phenomenon.

What about starting a new thread to pull together our favorite Web 2.0 enabling tools? (eg RSS readers and optimizers; social news aggregators; etc?)

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