Archives for the 'Social software' Category
Cogged PLE’s
Jenny mentioned that the process we worked through for our paper, was not open to all. At least, it can be made a little more transparent here. Read more …
Comment culture
A new German paper “Views on the comment culture of weblogs” finds that the hope for a comment culture, the reflective element of participative learning, has not yet been fulfilled, and that weblogs are rather monological and only few threads are emerging. Read more…
Peer review before or after publication
why are Web2.0 affordances not embraced for scholarly communication? A new report from UC Berkeley gives a shattering answer and a discouraging advice to young scholars. Perhaps there is hope that older scholars and elite universities can be more broad-minded? Read more…
Science Blogging
Not prematurely publishing RESULTS, but collaboratively reflecting the QUESTIONS, might help developping new theories. Read more.
Selling blogs to the non-believers?
There is an interesting discussion going on about whether we need a new term for blogs in order to “sell” them to non-believers. I think we should not try to sell them to everybody. Read more….
Stepchild Annotation
Annotation is a central topic for shared spaces, but unfortunately it is still a stepchild and suffering from many small silly technical problems. Read more….
Trackback to the future?
Traces of knowledge construction made visible.
Evaluation Metadata
Learning Object Metadata entered by one user type can be leveraged as recommendations for users of similar type (”neigborhood users”). More…
Content Repositories und Social Software
OLS (Open Learning Support) presented by D. Wiley at USU ITI conference. More…
