Comments for Live elearning

Comment on Options for Poly Wikis by Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:51:30 +0000

oh! sounds like an interesting project that you have in mind – I’ll email you about it, might be worth talking over a coffee. We’ve found the wikis almost easier than blogs, especially when you have multiple authors. Also some ideas about Flickr are coming to mind – being able to document in imagery.

Comment on Options for Poly Wikis by Ruth Howard

Ruth Howard — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:40:50 +0000

Hi Kirsty Im wondering please what might be the best way to integrate a more open and interactive blogging experience for a primary school kitchen garden project. Im thinking video, images, stories, songs, recipes and want it to be easy as possible for others than myself to engage in. And not too dependent on me after I guide it a while? I am thinking I could go with something like a wiki but it seems a steeper curve than say a pushbutton blogging site? Many teachers in my school wont have blogged yet. Possibly all. We plan to tho and Id like to have a specific Twitter account connected to the blog because there are many kitchen garden related folk connected there and easy to feel connected. The school already have a FB page.
What do you think? We are part of a large group of schools all over Australia under the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. But we need to become independent too. I’d really like us to use it as a means to be more interactive with all our neighbouring kitchen garden community schools. I find the forum on the foundation site to be less satisfactory for community less social, although there are physical meetups. And all these schools are already doing so much that it would be good to demonstrate a way that they might like too? Id like to document our own work but allow for interaction with others in the community?

I can see Flavors.me would feed in separate social bits, making for a coherent picture. I’m thinking some teachers and students will prefer one or other media above others and so to not dictate it too much but feed whatever people like into the one space?

Thanks for simplicity and insight!

Comment on Edna Workshop by Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:13:40 +0000

Peter – yes opencourseware is an interesting one. Again, it challenges the interpretation of knowledge/ information is power (flipping from having power by hoarding information vs gaining power through sharing information). Essentially what we as consumers would be paying for with assessment/ certification is buying a piece of the credibility those organisations have spent time and energy creating. Some people place more worth on a certification from an Ivy League or Top 8 (AUS) university than others. For some of the middle of the road unis this is scarier than for MIT! You could also argue that people will be paying for access to a group of fellow students and facilitation if they don’t have the skills to find that peer support themselves.
Jaq – thanks Just wish the jasjam battery had more oomph. It gave up before lunch.

Comment on Edna Workshop by Jacquie

Jacquie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:39:15 +0000

Wow, that JasJam works a treat. Your notes are so thorough – nice i’m gona rss this blog…:D

Comment on Edna Workshop by Peter Shanks

Peter Shanks — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:33:06 +0000

that was quick! A couple of issues that occurred to me while watching this presentation it occurred to me that open courseware at MIT is a great thing, but the fact that you cannot get assessed without ponying up some cash is interesting, and perhaps points the way to how our hallowed halls of further education will survive into the 21st C.

Comment on Flavours of Elearning by Roger Stack

Roger Stack — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:55:48 +0000

Sounds delicious

Hmm… why aren’t there more foods in web 2.0 app names? Just found this trying to find some… http://www.go2web20.net/

Comment on Proposed projects for 2009 by Roger Stack

Roger Stack — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:40:50 +0000

For remixing content to a PDF I just saw http://www.ck12.org/