The last few days I have spent at CSSE, in particular at Technology and Teacher Education (TATE) sessions. We had a pre-conference day for people doing research in this area to share ideas and their research interests and so a…
Category: GRAIL
” Authors need content, and content needs authors”
so ends Stephen Downes'(@005) paper Semantic networks and social networks http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=31624 which was a really helpful paper in allowing me to connect up the value of social connections within a sematic or content-related context. He also points out the separated…
More on the action research project paper
I have been thinking more about how we might approach this IADIS paper on our beginning experiences of weblogging, and I thought it might be helpful if people started to record some of their thoughts in relation to these following…
moving towards a prototype for GRAIL
Had an interesting meeting today with the ACG group in Education Commons about possible engines for GRAIL to provide the central frame for the environment that the various elements would link to. Mark Hume, formerly at UTSC, developed a really…
the Practice of Grounded Design
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…
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…