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Thursday, January 29, 2004
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...Personal Interaction Manager?
For about a year now, I've had the phrase "Personal Interaction Manager"
intermittently sticking in and out of my mind. Never took the time to
define it, but something keeps telling me this is what I really need.
Talk about fuzzy logic. As I write this, Google returns zero hits for
the phrase. (I have a hunch that this will change soon. :)
Now, Eric Gradman's recent paper would seem to get closer to a definition. Hmm.
 10:27:47 PM
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Welcome, Derek!
Reputations researcher Derek Lackaff has just joined the blogosphere (Yes folks, today is reputations day round here) I like his intro post:
Welcome, dear reader, to yet another blog. As everyone else on the
planet, and their pets, caught blogging fever over the past few years,
I reveled in my bloglessness. Maybe blogging, I reasoned, would be
proven another silly fad. Something I could chuckle about down the line
– “How lame. Good thing I wasn’t a part of THAT – one less permanent
blotch on my Google and Wayback Machine record”. Although I (used to)
read Wired, knew all the net culture buzzwords, and could even kick out
a script or two, I totally missed out on the mad blog rush.
But
I’ve slowly realized that personal publishing is probably here to stay
(at least in some form or another). Years later, the cool people are
still maintaining their blogs. And it seems that I keep finding ever
more fascinating, weird, personal, hopeful, and intelligent bloggers as
time goes by. Maybe, just maybe, it’s not a simple fad. Maybe blogging
is something more than a massively linked (ego)stroke (as the pundits
keep claiming). In any case, I know I have to get involved – I’m
researching online communication.
Yes, there you have it. I
am yet another beginning postgrad student who is fascinated by social
technology, and will try and ride the wave towards a degree or two. In
particular, I am interested in the mechanics of online collaboration –
content filtering, collaborative learning, reputation management, trust
matrices, open publishing, etc. My current research involves discussion
moderation regimes (such as Slashdot’s moderation system) and their
impact on the discourse they control.
Or maybe I just never really conquered my original Slashdot addiction.
It's never too late to start a blog.
(via Bruno Boutot)
This post also appears on channel weblog research
2:35:17 PM
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Two action quotes
Chris Corrigan: "Waiting for democracy to emerge is not only boring, as the Tutor says,
but also fruitless. Democracy emerges out of action, not the other way
around."
Frank Tibolt: "We
should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action
always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
9:32:58 AM
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GarageBand demo tracks
MacJams: Tracks created using the new Mac GarageBand Software, by webjaybs (not sure if he made the songs or collected them).
A nice example of how funky Apple's GarageBand can get when put in the right hands.
(via Lucas)
8:52:49 AM
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
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"First they ignore you, then
they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
M. Gandhi
9:01:09 PM
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Kottke: Guidelines for learning
Nice, concise piece of learning wisdom I just rescued from my email inbox.
1. Release the need to be right.
2. Welcome one another's thoughts and opinions.
3. Suspend judgment.
4. Listen for understanding, not rebuttal.
5. Make personal statements by using "I" rather than "you".
6. Clarify first what was said before you challenge someone.
7. Take time to reflect.
8. Lean into discomfort.
9. Respond first to what was said before making your point.
10. Have fun.
Update: Jon Husband annotates.
4:59:19 PM
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Call for papers: 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
(Also known as ICALT 2004)
Theme: “Crafting Learning Within Context”
For many years now, researchers and practitioners have advocated views of
learning as happening within various forms of contexts such as those embodying
problem-based, scenario-based, cognitive, meta-cognitive, social, linguistic,
cultural, artefact, and authentic task elements. The conference theme focuses
on the crafting of such learning experiences enabled or mediated by technology
that enacts authentic contexts for the learning and doing to take place. We
especially welcome papers that study the contextualization and the concretization
of learning.
4:37:38 PM
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Weblogs and wikis audioconference next week
On February 3 at noon Atlantic time (11 AM in Quebec, 5 PM in France) I will be giving a virtual talk in French titled "Le Web à deux sens : carnets Web, wikis et leurs usages pour l'apprentissage" (english abstract). This presentation is organized by TeleEducation NB
via the Interwise system and it is free of charge. Wherever you are,
you're very welcome. (Registration deadline is today, but I think they
may accept late registrations - I've been able to do it in the past.)
Les carnets Web (weblogs) et les wikis sont deux formes de
communication émergentes basées sur la technologie du Web. Leur usage
se répand rapidement dans tous les domaines où la communication joue un
rôle. Si le Web tel qu'on l'a connu dans les années 90 a
considérablement facilité l'accès à l'information, l'apparition des
carnets Web et des wikis a eu l'effet d'ouvrir grand les portes à la
publication de contenu pour le commun des mortels. Aujourd'hui, grâce à
ces outils, des millions de personnes participent indépendamment à
l'écriture du Web.
Dans cette présentation, l'animateur expliquera
en quoi consistent ces technologies et comment elles peuvent servir de
soutien à l'apprentissage collaboratif, tant pour l'étudiant que pour
l'apprenant autonome et l'enseignant.
8:27:57 AM
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Monday, January 26, 2004
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Sunday, January 25, 2004
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Yes, admit you've been waiting for it! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:
9:31:00 PM
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Your independent eFolio
Martin Terre Blanche on the state of Minnesota's Efolio initiative, which looks like a promising step in enabling learners to take personal control of their self-representation:
[...] they've set up a space for any Minnesota resident to create
an e-portfolio - listing things like education and current projects. Apart from
the arbitrariness of confining it to Minnesota, eFolio Minnesota is good because
it is a large-scale effort, not confined to a particular course or university.
Martin goes on to explain how to make this even better. I agree
with what he brings up; after going through the walkthrough, I'd push
for major simplification (or complexity-hiding) in order to enhance
uptake. (Though it may only be that the walkthrough is scary; Alan tried the system and says it's easy to use.)
9:09:28 PM
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Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space
Cliff Lampe and Paul Resnick have a paper out on the moderation system at Slashdot.
Haven't read it yet, but the findings reported in the abstract
corroborate my impressions. In particular, posting late is a good way
to get ignored - the herd moves darn fast from one post to the next.
Can a system of distributed moderation quickly and consistently separate high
and low quality comments in an online conversation? Analysis of the site
Slashdot.org suggests that the answer is a qualified yes, but that important
challenges remain for designers of such systems. Thousands of users act as
moderators. Final scores for comments are reasonably dispersed and the community
generally agrees that moderations are fair. On the other hand, much of a
conversation can pass before the best and worst comments are identified. Of
those moderations that were judged unfair, only about half were subsequently
counterbalanced by a moderation in the other direction. And comments with low
scores, not at top-level, or posted late in a conversation were more likely to
be overlooked by moderators.
2:16:01 PM
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