I was thinking about the implications of using a grounded design approach to development and what it actually implies for collecting data and cycles of development. I found some links to papers in related but not identical context which provide…
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Thinking about web-based technologies
We had a project meeting with a group of the Education COmmons programmers this week to discuss next steps in developing a version of the GRAIL environment. I was struck by the underlying commonalities among the different technologies on the…
revisiting The Social Life of Information
I liked this book the first time I read it some years ago, but this weekend at the cottage among the almost fall leaves I decided to read it again with the view to finding ideas relevant to the GRAIL…
Public and Private Spaces
Thi is an abstract Wendy Freeman and I sent to ALT-C — the Association for Learning technology in England. It is a location to describe some work in progress, get some feedback and talk with others working in the area.…
Yet another kind of group collaboration software
I am always amazed at the proliferation of, and insularity between, similar uses of technology in different domains. I am on the committee of a student who is using a GSS (a group support system) called GroupSystems. These collaborative environments…
Reconstructing ‘disengagement”
I have been wanting to reconceive the identity of a group in a set of research data I am using for a paper on online engagement. I had originally described them as “disengaged” a term describing their behaviour in relation…
Video conferencing on campus
I just came from a meeting with representatives from three of the UT campuses interested in using or supporting video conferencing environments for teaching and research. Most of the people were from the support sectors like Info Commons and their…
Public spaces private spaces
Thinking about how to structure the connections between the individual blogs and the course, and how to integrate Wikki’s into the online graduate research environment is making me reconsider the nature of public and private space online. Knowledge Forum is…