I seem to not be a continuous blogger, although I am about to start a blog with the KMDI folks http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/ hopefully by the end of October. I was going to start tracking resources and ideas for a series of…
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Outstanding Paper Award
The paper, Finding the Individual in Collaborative Online Learning Environments by Wendy Freeman and Clare Brett is the first recipient of the TACTL (Technology as an agent of change in teaching and learning) SIG AWARD, to be presented at AERA…
Research group and activities for the year
Well, it has taken me a little while to get around to this, but the tenure file is in and now back to all the other things that need to be done. By my calculations our active research group is…
Survey on bloggers
Here is an interesting recent survey summary of who is blogging and what they are doing thereDownload file It is a general public survey, so not about education specifically but I was interested to se more than 50% actually tried…
Video from 1608
Here is week 4’s movie–saved as a .mov as I am still working out compression to fit on the blog site and was saving it to quicktime at the time, but it should download fine. However, the quality may be…
To blog or not to blog
I am always interested in how strongly people react to their online experiences in this course. I think using blogs is a way of writing and interacting with resources that one has to grow into in a way–I have certainly…
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…