Podcasting, screencasting, and video sharing

I’m a PC user.  I like spreadsheets.  I dislike the Mac user interface and I’m disappointed every time Windows tries harder to imitate it; I want to see my hierarchical file structure as soon as possible, thank you very much.  That said, Macs have at least one clear advantage over PCs–Garage [...]

Some thoughts on educational uses of the annotation tools in Diigo

This week, Dr. Wiley asked us to highlight and annotate a classmate’s blog posting. I annotated several classmates’ postings:

“Educational Uses of Pod and Videocasts” on LeLute’s Weblog
“Learning in Dense, Distributed, Social Networks” on web technology in small doses
“Relevance, Permanence, Social Discourse and Filtering . . . or . . . “If I Were a Middle [...]

Delicious and Flickr in Education

David Wiley has asked those of us in his New Media, Social Media, and Learning Course to post on educational uses of Delicious and Flickr.
Delicious
One of my early posts on this blog (before people who weren’t related to me started to read it) was entitled “Tools for Personal Learning Networks: Social Bookmarking and Citation Management.”  [...]

Social networks and learning networks

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About a year ago, I started teaching a course on Instructional Technology in Teaching and dived head first into the world of Web 2.0. Somewhere a long the way, I found a blog post that mentioned the term “personal learning network” and was intrigued because it described the process that I was using [...]

I’m doing my homework, really . . .

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Yesterday, I spent a fair amount of the afternoon augmenting my Facebook profile.  This is not something I do very often, because frankly, I feel that Facebook’s best use is for killing time and I tend to agree with Thoreau that killing time wounds eternity.  Still, it was my homework to browse through [...]

My social graph

TouchGraph is an interesting data visualization tool that I like to play with every now and then; I find it a fascinating way to surf through the results of a Google Search.  After completing course readings on the social graph, I thought of Touchgraph’s ability to visually map Facebook contacts and decided to see what [...]

Dino Maniacs and Social Objects

Regular readers of this blog know that I teach an  online course about Instructional Technology for an audience of pre-service teachers at Brigham Young University.  I’ve taught the face to face version of the course twice before and have been interested to see how this couse would unfold.  Instead of a traditional course management system, I’ve [...]

Educational uses of wikis

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Jude Higdon in an article entitled “Teaching, Learning, and Other Uses for Wikis in Academia” defined wikis as websites that are “fully editable from a Web browser.”  Higdon intentionally omits any mention of multiple authors from his this definition.  Higdon argues that the “egalitarianism of the tool” was not the [...]

Becoming part of Wikipedia

David Wiley suggested that my New Media classmates and I try improving a Wikipedia article.  At first I couldn’t think of a topic that I wanted to write about that would be appropriate for an entry in an encyclopedia (I like being able to insert my own opinion).  After some thought, I decided to see [...]

Educational blogging

The class I’m taking on New Media, Social Media and Learning asked me to “do some digging around in Google, Yahoo, or [my] search engine of choice and find an interesting article about educational uses of blogs”, to post about “why [I] found the article [I] linked to particularly interesting” and to “extend or improve [...]