Deborah Baker's Radio Weblog

Macromedia usings blogs as part of the marketing and technology support strategies. Isn't it nice to know you're on the bleeding edge?

[Jim McGee: McGee's Musings - TEC924]

One of my concerns about blogging is that it is difficult to establish perspective on or differentiate the bias of the source... which means it can easily be exploited as it is put to more traditionally commercial uses.

Wired: Blogging Goes Corporate.

[from Scripting News]

Macromedia usings blogs as part of the marketing and technology support strategies. Isn't it nice to know you're on the bleeding edge?

[Jim McGee: McGee's Musings - TEC924]

I think I've got it.

Wired: Blogging Goes Corporate.

[from Scripting News]

Macromedia usings blogs as part of the marketing and technology support strategies. Isn't it nice to know you're on the bleeding edge?

[Jim McGee: McGee's Musings - TEC924]

Now I get it.

I've begun to pay attention to the ideas of Oxford historian Theodore Zeldin, who studies the meaning of the radical shifts in that are occuring in our era in the areas of work, knowledge acquisition and use, and communication. He is involved in the creation of Future College Oxford, which he describes as "a place where people and mentors can meet physically after making contact on the Internet and a center for research on how work can be humanized." I'm interested in exploring his thinking on this kind of hybrid on-line and face-to-face collaboration from the perspective of his views on the value of conversation.

For a brief introductory overview see www.fastcompany.com/ftalk/london/zeldin.html.

There are also extensive links at www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/websearchlist?searchview&query=theodore+zeldin

My interest lies in understanding how the facilitation of learning that occurs entirely or partially online can be designed to foster the reflective capacities of professionals as a means of informing and improving practice.

I am motivated by a construct of learning that responds to Donald Schon's acknowledgement of the conundrum of the learning experience:

"The paradox of learning a really new competence is this: that a student cannot at first understand what he needs to learn, can learn it only by educating himself, and can educate himself only by beginning to do what he does not yet understand." (Educating the Reflective Practitioner)

I believe that the online learning environment can and should provide powerful solutions to this inherent dilemma, in part through deep understanding and effective use of the dynamics of facilitating the communication processes unique to this medium.

Additionally, there is a great deal of 'embedded' knowledge generated in online learning settings that can serve as an important component of broadly distributed knowledge management processes. The written record creates a body of explicit knowledge and tangible learning objects that may be captured, archived and reused in creative and valuable ways. One of the things I want to explore is how weblogging can be used to maximize and enhance the dimensionality and transferability of knowledge that develops within the online learning environment.