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• Wiki science - Wikiversity

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    Wiki science is the study of how the phenomenon of wikis, and free, open collaborative works in general (like free software and open source), are growing, changing and adapting.

• Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

  tags: wiki collaboration

  • A community is like a ship: everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

    —Henrik Ibsen

    In many respects, the wide-open ethic of wikis contrasts vividly with the traditional approaches of standard groupware and collaborative systems. Access restrictions, rigidly defined workflows, and structures are anathema to most wiki developers. What’s unique about wikis is that users define for themselves how their processes and groups will develop, usually by making things up as they go along.

• http://www.oreillynet.com/network/2006/07/07/what-is-a-wiki.html

  Ideas for using a wiki and advice for wiki success.

  tags: wiki collaboration

  • Once you've used a wiki for a project, you'll find it hard to go back to regular methods. You'll find yourself using wiki syntax in emails, and your own WikiWords in conversation. Using the wiki as your notebook will ensure you don't lose the seeds of good ideas, and spending time browsing and gardening will keep those ideas returning when you need them. Most of all, you'll find that having a shared memory on a large project moves the administrivia out of the way and lets you concentrate on the real job.

• Why Radio 3AW is a Social Media Stand-Out - The PR Warrior

  tags: Social Media Strategy radio

• twitter for internet radio stations | social media for online radio | StreamFinder Internet Radio Station Directory

  Focus on using Twitter for a radio station social media strategy

  tags: Social Media Strategy

  • Part 2 of this series
  • discusses twitter and how a station manager can use it to gain listeners and visits.

• Social Media Best Practices For Your Radio Station – Part 1 – Facebook | StreamFinder Internet Radio Station Directory

  tags: Soical Media Strategy

  • This post is meant to be a starting point for discussing some of the techniques that internet radio stations can use to harness the power of social media to drive traffic to their site and listeners to their streaming servers. This is not an exhaustive list of techniques – but this should be a good starting place for a radio station director or manager.

• The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning

  Slideshare from Stephen Downes

  tags: moocs pln open education

• Learning Organisation adapted from Peter Senge's 5th Discipline - Philosophy, Characteristics, Drivers, Culture and Barriers.

  Learning Organisations - Slideshare

  tags: learning organisation management theory team work

• The Issue of Self-Motivation in F2F and Online Learning « Educational Technology and Change Journal

  Interesting blog discussion on motivation and online learning

  tags: moocs elearning edtech

  • The internet is well suited to learners who are completely self-regulated, aggregating learning resources from a variety of sources, seeking out their own channels of support and collaboration. There has never been a better time to manage your own learning experience.

• Learnings from a MOOC « Educational Technology and Change Journal

  tags: connectivism moocs edtech elearning

  • Is there an ideal way to ensure that technology is an aid to learning rather than a blockade? I believe there is. The MOOC course created a facilitated microcosm of an educational technology world. If I had questions about the technology or the course, there were avenues to ask them, including the synchronous Elluminate sessions and email. There were opportunities to post an original idea and to post responses to others’ ideas. We could use words, graphics — Wordle or a mind map for example — or videos to get our thoughts and points across. The teachers were well versed in the use of all of these tools.

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• The Next Generation of Discovery

  tags: searches filtering Crap Detection

• [1103.0784] Happiness is assortative in online social networks

  Page linking to PDF - Study on Twitter networks and the affect that happiness and social well being has on the development of a social network.

  tags: networks happiness homophilly network theory

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Growing My Network

This weekend I have spent some time identifying objectives and purpose for growing my personal learning network (PLN). I have also laid down my thoughts to outline a form of strategy to meet those objectives. Generally speaking, I am not a great strategist and prefer to let life (including networks) unfold without too much intention. I do think that a PLN is an incredibly valuable asset and I feel privileged and overwhelmed by the support and interest that I have received so far from those in my new and growing network. If you are reading this then you are probably part of that network – so thank you. Here are my thoughts and motivations.

Purpose: To continue to pursue my awakened interest in areas and themes that have been highlighted and developed through undertaking the University Certificate in Professional Development –Web Enhanced Practice course. To participate in an open and social, learning environment. To grow a mutually beneficial network of people: who share these interests or some commonality; who can support each other’s learning and development; who can act as critical friends and who are comfortable in offering feedback; who can model good practice; who can share timely, interesting and emerging information.

Objectives and Strategy

Participate, contribute and create content

•Continue to participate in the Twittersphere and to build on contacts through further engagement. Tweet more using #edtech and other hash tags as become apparent.

•Blogs – Keep a number of blogs for different areas of interests. Keep Blogger, Posterous and Amplify for learning and development and Tumblr for personal and creative projects.

•Through experimenting with Posterous, Tumbler and Amplify, I realize that blog posts and blog popularity benefit from posts being more interactive and visually interesting. Use of photos, audio and developing more confidence in video blogging/pod casting is something that I would like to work on. Welcome and promote conversation on blog posts.

•Contribute by commenting on other people’s blogs in a variety of interest areas.

•YouTube – Create video resources and artifacts to share on YouTube and explore the social networking aspects of YouTube.

•Contribute to and share resources on TES “share your resources” page.

Collaboration and knowledge sharing to grow networks

•Continue to contribute social bookmarks to Diigo. Contribute bookmarks to other groups, join a few more groups and develop contacts within these groups.

•Find a wiki project to take part in or start one myself to experience collaborative writing.

Take part in organised learning to grow learning networks

•Investigate Massive Open Online courses and other open educational resources and opportunities

•Take part in #lrnchat and other live conversations.

•Like to maintain contact with UCPDWEP. I hope that a collaborative UCPDWEP learning network will develop in the future. I would very much like to be involved in this and to offer a supportive contribution to future cohorts.

•Join in Second Life groups, attend conferences/events in SL and get involved in other virtual classroom activities.

Search, aggregate, filter and re-distribute information

•Make full and significant use of RSS reader to aggregate relevant information from a variety of sources.

•Re-distribute relevant information to network via Twitter, blogs and Diigo social bookmarking. Use materials and references to create discussions/ conversations/crowd source opinion through networks, for example using blogs, Facebook, wikis and Twitter.

UCPDWEP

Networks & Connectivism #ucpdwep

George Siemens artlicle, "A Learning Theory for the Digital Age" December 12, 2004, states that learning is no longer an individualistic activity. Connectivism is an important aspect of teaching and learning in today's digital world.

Amplify’d from www.elearnspace.org

network can simply be defined as connections between entities. Computer networks, power grids, and social

A network can simply be defined as connections between entities. Computer networks, power grids, and social networks all function on the simple principle that people, groups, systems, nodes, entities can be connected to create an integrated whole. Alterations within the network have ripple effects on the whole.

Albert-László Barabási states that “nodes always compete for connections because links represent survival in an interconnected world” (2002, p.106).

Principles of connectivism: Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision. Read more at www.elearnspace.org

 

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Create a network for learning #ucpdwep

URL:  http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/presentations/presen...

Ideas on how to create a personal learning network using Twitter, blogs and social bookmarking.

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Understanding networks #ucpdwep

URL:  http://vlog.rheingold.com/index.php/site/video/network-...

Talk from Howard Rheingold presenting the historic context of the growth of Internet networks and network theories based on the laws of Sarnoff, Reed and Metcalfe. I was interested in the idea about how networks change focus depending on the stage of their development, for example, content focused networks, networks based around transactions or networks sharing constructed values. Rheingold states here that social capital equals networks of trust.

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Sites to build your PLN #ucpdwep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

List of active social networking sites for consideration. Would joining and participating in any of these sites help to build and support your personal/professional learning network?

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